Back in February ("Novell's 'Rev' reaches out further to his flock"), I told you about Ted Haeger's plans to involve more Novell people in the wider user community.
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Initially this was to be a series of podcasts - a series that's still going strong, with interesting content. But Haeger also wanted to get Novell's various product managers (and other product gurus) involved by writing their own blogs. He suggested that ZENworks experts Martin Buckley, Jason Blacket and Mark Schouls could start and then he'd see where that might lead. Where it's led is to two-dozen or so Novell bloggers who - some regularly, some sporadically - post their thoughts, projects, and feelings to the Cool Blogs Web site. Those who have participated include:
* Alex Evans
* Bill Pray
* Bill Street
* David Mair
* Doug Clower
* Erin Quill
* Jason Williams
* Justin Taylor
* Ken Muir
* Laurence Pitt
* Mark Schouls
* Martin Buckley
* Richard Jones
* Robert Wipfel
* Ron Tanner
* Ron van Herk
* Shaun Pond
* Shon Vella
* Steven Weitzeil
* Ted Haeger
* Ty Ellis
* Volker Scheuber
Some of these folks I know, and you will too (Hi Shaun!), while others will be new to you, new to me or new to us both. But in any case, what they have to say will be interesting and may be useful.
Also available, and possibly of interest to you, are two blogs from Novell senior executives: Chief Marketing Officer John Dragoon, and CTO Jeff Jaffe.
There have also been some new additions to the Novell Support Forums home page, linking not only to these Novell blogs but also to other, third-party blogs and wikis which might be of interest to those who make their living through the care and feeding of Novell products.
When you read the general press, even the mainstream technology press, you might often be driven to think that you're the only one still running NetWare (or GroupWise, ZENworks, etc.). Tools like these that Ted Haeger is striving to set up really help you realize that you are not alone. Use them.
Dave Kearns is a writer and consultant in Silicon Valley. He's written a number of books including the (sadly) now out of print "Peter Norton's Complete Guide to Networks." His musings can be found at Virtual Quill.
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