ITRC member appears in Infoworld article

[paul courry]

Which would be me.

There is an article appearing in Infoworld (11/02/01) on "Communities of Practice" (wot you think THIS is guv'ner? chopped liver?) where I hold forth that the ITRC IS one heck of a "community of practice" that is as vibrant, alive and growing as any meat community of practice. I stated that....

NEWS FLASH

This just in from Dan Gazzaniga.....

"I just read the article in Info World on community forums (11-02-2001,
HEADLINE: Practice makes perfect). You had a great quote in there:

"There are members of my online community whom I will trust before my
closest colleague in technical matters. I will accept their technical
recommendations for standards and procedures without question," he says.
"When new system administrators have systems that go down, they post the
symptoms and have detailed instructions returned to them on how to proceed
with repairs within the hour," Courry says. Despite not meeting many members
face-to-face, Courry says that extended communities are "just as strong,
vibrant, and meaningful as any internal community of practice that a company
has established."

I was wondering if you would be willing to let us use your quote for helping
to communicate the value of community forums to potential new members, new
customers, etc., to help drive the value message home and hopefully increase
participation/success of the forums? Likely places that it would end up are
online at the ITRC in an article or in print in collateral, such as a
brochure.

If you can swing it, that would be great. We can follow up regarding the
process for receiving your ok to use it. Look forward to hearing from you!"


BTW, you "members of my online community whom I will trust ......" know who you are!!!

[Darrell Allen]

Hey Paul,

Just read the article online at http://navigation.helper.realnames.com/framer/1/112/default.asp?realname=InfoWorld&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Einfoworld%2Ecom&frameid=1&providerid=112&uid=30008198

Attaboy Paul! I echo your sentiments. I don't have peers in my company so it is great to be able to turn to the forums. And if I did have other UNIX SAs, I'd still use the forum.

Darrell

[John Bolene]

A better link directly to the article is
http://navigation.helper.realnames.com/framer/1/112/default.asp?realname=InfoWorld&url=http://www.infoworld.com&frameid=1&providerid=112&uid=30008198


Say Paul, now how the heck did you get in there anyway? Details are a good thing.

[harry d brown jr]

I just got goose pimples....


live free or die
harry

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Paul:

Wow! Very nicely said, Paul.

Regards!

...JRF...

[A. Clay Stephenson]

So Paul, how does it feel to be famous?

Clay

[Roger Baptiste]

Well-said . Look at all the rabbits-out-of-the-hat around this place ;-) , as a confirmation for that.

-R

[Darrell Allen]

Well darn! Neither link works takes me directly to the article but you can follow them then:

Click on COMMUNITY on the left
search for courry
then click on Practice makes perfect

Ah, the wonder on the Internet!

Darrell

[Patrick Wallek]

Very well said Paul.

[Santosh Nair_1]

Well done Paul...I echo your sentiments.

-Santosh

[Kimberly Ann]

Here is a direct link to the article Paul is quoted in:

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/pe/xml/01/11/05/011105pecommunity.xml

Paul...NICE GOING!

Regards,
Dan

FYI, if you go to the article, right click on the text, and choose "properties", you will see the URL (above) that is being called up to build the page.

[Patrick Wessel]

Paul,
What a great compliment for our community

[Jim Turner]

Here Here!

Hearty congratulations and very well said!

[Mark Grossman]

congratulations,
as one of those (silent majority) that reads the forums daily although not answering or posting too many items, I have to agree that this is the best training ground and information repository for sys admins ive ever seen.
I'd say that 95% or more of our software problems are solved by searching forums, patches, etc without calling for support. We always have the website up during system upgrades and I don't think I could get thru a week without it.

So all you experts (and Dan and the itrc team)have my thanks and i'm sure there are thousands of other "forum readers" that are relying on this site, and the people in it, but you just never hear from.
Its nice to see one of you (and this site) get some worldwide acknowledgment.

Mark

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

I couldn't find it on either link! But nice discours from what you posted.!

My wife appears to be the only one to recognise my great efforts (ie get off that goddammed computer... etc..)

Later,
Bill

[Mike Hassell]

Paul,

I enjoyed reading your comments. I've been a long time Infoworld reader and I'm glad to see that they gave ITRC some "light" in this article. ITRC has been the best technical resource I've found on the net to date, as members strive hard to form a community of solid technical people. Thanks for brining it to our attention, lets hope that we see more "light" shed on ITRC from major publications like Infoworld.

-Mike

[Gordon Davis]

No hat here, but I've been "lurking" around this forum for awhile. I learn a lot from this forum and it's contributing members.

Your article was very well said ...

Gordon

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Hi Paul,

I agree with your comments in the article.

But did you get any comments on your article beside the comment of fellow members?


Gideon

[paul courry]

Vrijhoeven,

It is up to HP and their publicity agents to *create* the comments from outside the ITRC forums. Now that they have "publicity" (advertising they have not "paid for") they combine this with advertising they DO pay for and have their sales teams and publicity agents put this in front of the public.

Besides, did you notice that my email address was not in the article? Awful hard to reach me except through HP's publicity agents who arranged the interview and the good offices of people like Dan Gazzaniga. (Unless you a competent web investigator)
Patience! HP will make good use of the article and my comments for the good of the forum in due time. After all, is that not what articles and comments are about? Not about the individual persons mentioned, but about the forum, it's growth and helping one another grow

[Michael Tully]

Hi Paul,

Very well done !

It does bring about some home truths!

Cheers
-Michael

[someone_4]

NOW THATS GOOD STUFF!!
and one comment you made really sums it up for me!
"There are members of my online community whom I will trust before my closest colleague in technical matters. I will accept their technical recommendations for standards and procedures without question,"
I know thats how I feel about the advice and help I get from my mentors on the ITRC!!

Richard =)