Comments for Rosie Land - Founder & Community Builder

Comment on Introverts by Rosie Sherry

Rosie Sherry — Wed, 16 May 2012 09:20:59 +0000

I have it on my ‘wishlist’…need to get through a pile I already have

I’d be interested in learning more about how introverts and communities work together better.

Comment on Introverts by John Stevenson

John Stevenson — Wed, 16 May 2012 08:38:08 +0000

Hi Rosie

Have you read the book by Susan Cain?

Quiet – The Power of Introverts – very interesting read.

I count myself as an extrovert but when running workshop etc. I try to make sure the quite ones get heard based upon some lessons I learnt from this book.

Comment on Will we get off our high horses? by nilanjan

nilanjan — Tue, 01 May 2012 15:04:00 +0000

I thought the audience response was great. I wish there was a similar response in the talks on ‘test is dead’. I realize there were uncomfortable moments, but overall I think everyone expressed their opinion (what they really felt). I am with the testers.

Comment on Will we get off our high horses? by larry

larry — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 05:35:25 +0000

To me it’s called engineering. I really dislike this dev – test seperation. I have coding for 40+ years – today I’m considered a senior tester – why because someone has to be the grown up at times.

I like your pairing of dev/eng. Think as an engineer in building a system.

Comment on Will we get off our high horses? by Amy

Amy — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:30:03 +0000

I agree that testers need to prove their value to a project rather than just expecting to be consulted at every stage.

There are plenty of areas where testers can add real value to a company but finding and reporting bugs shouldn’t be considered one of them. Work with the development team to help them create a brilliant product, if you can prove your worth then people will seek you out for your input.

A great talk by Ben, he is obviously a brave man!

Comment on Walking the halls by Paul Howard

Paul Howard — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 19:06:36 +0000

I like the 4th one. It’s the only one that doesn’t upset my slightly OCD like brain.

The rest of them just look like someone threw a couple of signs at the door and didn’t care where they landed.

Order and even spacing are essential. And a round cornered rectangle next to a circle? Pur-lease!!!!

Comment on I’m Writing a Book by Sean Morley

Sean Morley — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:29:35 +0000

That sounds like it will be really interesting, Rosie. Has me considering writing about my own experiences with a software start-up, and addressing the inevitable question – why did we fail. But that is something you won’t have any experience with.
There seem to be a number of fascinating aspects to building a social media site like STC – the technical focus, building an audience, figuring out how to monetize it, getting acquired by Google … (oh wait, shouldn’t give any spoilers).

Comment on Customer Service That Matches The Brand by Venkat Reddy Chintalapudi

Venkat Reddy Chintalapudi — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:20:26 +0000

Nice post and it also shows the utmost care towards the customers. These customers eventually help to promote (like what you have done now) the brand of the company.

Comment on Customer Service That Matches The Brand by David Greenlees

David Greenlees — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:00:54 +0000

And… think about it from the other side. How much more fun would it be working for a company like this? You would actually enjoy writing a support letter like the example above!

Comment on Is blogging dead…? by @halperinko - Kobi Halperin

@halperinko - Kobi Halperin — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:03:54 +0000

Each method/tool we use is first fruitful, but quite quickly it either becomes overloaded (like in Twitter where you need to find the needles within the hay stack), or too common (like Blogs, where you need to follow so many of them to keep up).
Blogs are also a bit too personal – not very inviting feedback (and some owners even discourage free discussion against their beliefs).
RSS aggregators are useful for articles and blogs, though some need better filtering,
But still don’t answer the twitter limitations you have raised above – you want to follow so many interesting people, but than get lost in the vast amount of irrelevant posts, and the unstructured format – if only we had a discussion view…