What Are You Doing Right Now
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@bigbear said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@bigbear said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Reading RHCSA book before teaching today’s saxophone lesson.
What kind of job are you going for with all the Linux stuff, just curious?
System administrator, but that’s a long way off.
Sounds like you have the drive to get there.
I’ve flirted with the thought of developmenr; however, I cannot seem to take the plunge.
That's a pretty huge change. That's a full career change, as opposed to a role change.
Not as much as leaving teaching :P. It’s the problem of being interested in everything — something I’ve dealt with for the last 35 years. However, I know I don’t have the drive to become good in the dev world.
I started when I was 8, but have mostly drifted in to sysadmin or telecom/internet. I spent a lot of time in Java, then even more in Ruby, and now that I am working on things again I am having to really get in to Node.js, so at least with sysadmin stuff the knowledge and experience is cumulative as your career grows.
You could almost argue that Windows Server knowledge is a 50% toss out everytime a major version is released where Linux is steady. With your teaching experience you could probably land a nice school admin position. I saw a school librarian convert in the matter of 2 years to district admin (small school district). But she actually become a much better admin than the lazy person they fired who had a lifetime of experience.
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Maybe I'm just bitter from UGA's meltdown, but it seems like the vultures have landed on this thread.
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2085471-the-best-low-cost-cloud-based-phone-system
Guy hasn't had a chance to even tell us requirements, and [insert vendor here] already has the best possible solution for the requirements that haven't been named. -
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Maybe I'm just bitter from UGA's meltdown, but it seems like the vultures have landed on this thread.
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2085471-the-best-low-cost-cloud-based-phone-system
Guy hasn't had a chance to even tell us requirements, and [insert vendor here] already has the best possible solution for the requirements that haven't been named.Yeah that's why I don't even bother reading Vendor comments. The only exception is Kooler from StarWimd he seems to be the only Vendor who actually knows things and not just trying to blindly sell software .
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@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Maybe I'm just bitter from UGA's meltdown, but it seems like the vultures have landed on this thread.
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2085471-the-best-low-cost-cloud-based-phone-system
Guy hasn't had a chance to even tell us requirements, and [insert vendor here] already has the best possible solution for the requirements that haven't been named.Yeah that's why I don't even bother reading Vendor comments. The only exception is Kooler from StarWimd he seems to be the only Vendor who actually knows things and not just trying to blindly sell software .
Oh, you mean this @KOOLER?
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@scottalanmiller Anytime!
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@scottalanmiller Good evening to everyone!
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@nerdydad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
exception is Kooler from StarWimd he seems to be the only Vendor who actually knows things and not just trying to blindly sell software .
Oh, you mean this @KOOLER?
Yeah
he is in SW and really posts mostly on storage, virtualization and so foth(Which is the industry Starwinds is involved). -
@nerdydad Doing that now!
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All moved in the new house, packed the whole truck moved to the new house placed everything and now I am tired but everything is in the placed they belong. Now to rest!
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@nerdydad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Maybe I'm just bitter from UGA's meltdown, but it seems like the vultures have landed on this thread.
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2085471-the-best-low-cost-cloud-based-phone-system
Guy hasn't had a chance to even tell us requirements, and [insert vendor here] already has the best possible solution for the requirements that haven't been named.Yeah that's why I don't even bother reading Vendor comments. The only exception is Kooler from StarWimd he seems to be the only Vendor who actually knows things and not just trying to blindly sell software .
Oh, you mean this @KOOLER?
One and the same.
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@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Good evening to everyone!
Good evening.
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Maybe I'm just bitter from UGA's meltdown, but it seems like the vultures have landed on this thread.
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2085471-the-best-low-cost-cloud-based-phone-system
Guy hasn't had a chance to even tell us requirements, and [insert vendor here] already has the best possible solution for the requirements that haven't been named.Its funny because I was looking into SW marketing options and from what I can tell all you get is the opportunity to SPAM everyone with your wares.
The only thing worth a damn in terms of comments are other people who have used and recommend a product.
I have been looking at out of band options from the normal google/facebook/twitter ads, specifically paid Youtube content creators. Not paid fake referrals but those who have followers and would do a product run down, unbiased, etc.
On a past project I had a Verge/Vox article bring me a few thousand sign-ups. Then a week or so later some Youtube video was posted, had never heard of them, and we had about 10,000 sign ups overnight. The video only had 24,000 views.
Targeting seems to be everything now. But still I am sure vendors make a little bit from hussling like that, otherwise they wouldnt keep coming back.
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@bigbear said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Targeting seems to be everything now. But still I am sure vendors make a little bit from hussling like that, otherwise they wouldnt keep coming back.
That's not actually true. With a lot of marketing, departments are given budgets and have no means to track success. So in many cases, marketing attempts are done without feedback and can actually do negative impact to sales, but no one knows how it happened.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@bigbear said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Targeting seems to be everything now. But still I am sure vendors make a little bit from hussling like that, otherwise they wouldnt keep coming back.
That's not actually true. With a lot of marketing, departments are given budgets and have no means to track success. So in many cases, marketing attempts are done without feedback and can actually do negative impact to sales, but no one knows how it happened.
Yeah I read something (maybe here) about how the more ads someone sees the less likely they are to engage with a brand or product. Wish I had the link.
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@bigbear said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@bigbear said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Targeting seems to be everything now. But still I am sure vendors make a little bit from hussling like that, otherwise they wouldnt keep coming back.
That's not actually true. With a lot of marketing, departments are given budgets and have no means to track success. So in many cases, marketing attempts are done without feedback and can actually do negative impact to sales, but no one knows how it happened.
Yeah I read something (maybe here) about how the more ads someone sees the less likely they are to engage with a brand or product. Wish I had the link.
Speaking for myself as a consumer, commercials and such convince me who not to use for X product more often than they convince me who to use.
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@bigbear said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@bigbear said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Targeting seems to be everything now. But still I am sure vendors make a little bit from hussling like that, otherwise they wouldnt keep coming back.
That's not actually true. With a lot of marketing, departments are given budgets and have no means to track success. So in many cases, marketing attempts are done without feedback and can actually do negative impact to sales, but no one knows how it happened.
Yeah I read something (maybe here) about how the more ads someone sees the less likely they are to engage with a brand or product. Wish I had the link.
Speaking for myself as a consumer, commercials and such convince me who not to use for X product more often than they convince me who to use.
Same for me. Especially when they are spam-ish in nature.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@bigbear said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@bigbear said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Targeting seems to be everything now. But still I am sure vendors make a little bit from hussling like that, otherwise they wouldnt keep coming back.
That's not actually true. With a lot of marketing, departments are given budgets and have no means to track success. So in many cases, marketing attempts are done without feedback and can actually do negative impact to sales, but no one knows how it happened.
Yeah I read something (maybe here) about how the more ads someone sees the less likely they are to engage with a brand or product. Wish I had the link.
Speaking for myself as a consumer, commercials and such convince me who not to use for X product more often than they convince me who to use.
Same for me. Especially when they are spam-ish in nature.
What I read, or saw, was basically saying that any display ads at all are counter-intuitive to their purpose. I think it was actually the radio.
However, I am sure there is more to it than that.
Content marketing is big, and apparently effective. But if you dont have a break-away product that is new or different I cant see it being very effective.
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@bigbear said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Content marketing is big, and apparently effective. But if you dont have a break-away product that is new or different I cant see it being very effective.
The key is that it is apparently effective. As it is nearly impossible to measure internally, it's very hard to guess externally. I've been told by internal marketing managers that a lot of marketing people throw money specifically at campaign types that can't be measured so that metrics can't be produced to show that what they are doing isn't working.
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Good morning. Don’t even have my computer on today. Chilling on the couch with coffee and Skyrim: Dragonborn while the kids are still asleep.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Good morning. Don’t even have my computer on today. Chilling on the couch with coffee and Skyrim: Dragonborn while the kids are still asleep.
Well, be sure to Laas, Yah, Nir and not Fus, Ro, Dah, unless you want to wake everyone up.
