I really wanted to post about this earlier but as many of you may have noticed we've been pretty busy since TechEd Las Vegas. I had a longish post planned that went into a lot of detail regarding Demo Jam. That idea was scuttled the moment Eddie Hermann wrote this post on his blog.  Serves me right for taking to long but it also serves you better because he along with Dan McWeeney should be telling the story of Majority Desk.
Eddie's post is actually one of the highlights of my career. You see, both Dan and Eddie are from Colgate-Palmolive which means they're customers. Eddie mentioned this in his post:
Some other SAP guys that helped with the videos and actually make SAP fun to work with, if you can believe it.
When a customer becomes a friend and a friend tells you that one of the reasons that being a customer is fun, at least in part, is because of you - WOW. How do you top that?Â
Now I've only know Eddie and Dan for just over a year now. Craig Cmehil introduced us to each other after they won Demo Jam 2006 in Las Vegas.  Over the past year I've gotten to know them a little better and while I do consider them both friends, we definitely come from completely different worlds, they're software developers and I'm a "PR" guy. What we share is a sense of community that the concepts and tools of social media allow for in a way that hasn't always been availableble. In this particular case it was the SDN community, social networking and blogging that enabled our getting to know one another.Â
This my friends is the power of social media!Â
If your going to be in Munich next week for TechEd you'll want to attend Demo Jam!  Dan, Eddie, James and Cote (of Redmonk fame) and I had some good laughs after the demo and we discussed ways in which to make the demo even more fun for Munich. If any of the props we discussed actually make it into the Munich performance; it will be the mother of all demos!
Do you have your Wii Hands on? I do!
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