I made some epic mistakes on the road to learning what it takes to build, nurture & scale community.
Here are 10 things I learned the hard way 😅
1) If you launched a community, then one day you got hit by a bus and the community falls apart, did you really have a community?
Don't create the cult of personality, spread the leadership around!
Dec 15, 2020 • 42 tweets • 52 min read
Werner Vogels @Werner AWS re:Invent Keynote is coming up now.
Will be tweeting cool updates from his talk, so follow along!
But feed is up now and there will be a performance w/ DJ Shiftee and then AWS DeepRacer Championship Cup Finale starting shortly.
Werner's talk is 11 AM EST / 8 AM PST.
Dec 15, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Interesting story about owning equity.
I was at Siebel in the late 90's to early 00's. Stock was soaring. We had reached $1 billion in revenue.
Sales Kickoff in 2000, Tom Siebel boasted how the company minted so many new millionaires. The stock was near $120 per share.
Then 2001 came. We were surviving the Dot Com bust okay. Companies were still buying. Stock was weak, but most were positive about the future.
Then 9/11 hit. Business spending stalled, revenue tanked. The stock also tanked.
Dec 1, 2020 • 75 tweets • 68 min read
Excited for my first re:Invent and getting ready for the @ajassy keynote coming up!
When people ask me how long it took to publish my book Community-in-a-Box, I say two months.
They are surprised it was such a short amount of time.
Here are some thoughts on self-publishing a business book. /1
First question is why write a book?
It is an incredibly all-consuming endeavor. Books rarely cover the costs that go into them. Also there is the opportunity cost of doing other things.
Make sure you are clear on goals & outcome. /2
Oct 24, 2020 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
Folks, I have a confession to make. I am a wuss.
That is the only conclusion I can come to after many weeks of reading right wing Twitter.
I am just not manly enough to be a man.
A thread 🧵
I saw this guy going off about emojis. They are only for women 👩 and children 🧒apparently. It's about self respect, men!
Got to admit, I 💗 a good emoji. Guess I'm a child then?
Oct 22, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
This is terrible.
I also unfortunately know what Leigh is talking about. This does happen and I had something very similar happen in the Enterprise Sales Forum community.
