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Nominate your candidate(s) for the 2016 batch of EMC Elect!

Posted by on November 4, 2015 No comments

EMC Elect 2016 nominations are open

It’s that time of year again: the nominations for the community heroes that might become part of the EMC Elect group of next year.

EMC Elect Nominations for 2016

The nominations can be sent in by anybody who wants to honor their community hero. What’s considered a community hero? To be recognized as EMC Elect candidate you could think about how you represented EMC throughout 2015. Well, represented is not the right word, since you don’t really represent EMC, but if you write or talk about EMC on ECN, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, or you are a speaker in public accessible forums or events, or write blogs about EMC equipment or software, you certainly are a candidate to be nominated.

Can you nominate yourself?

Why not? It’s not about who nominates who, but who gets nominated! And it’s not a contest! Only 1 nomination will do just fine. It has no added value to nominate somebody more than once! In the end the judges will look at your curriculum anyway and what you did during this year, so it’s perfectly fine to mention this to EMC yourself! Go ahead, make a nomination, or two, or five. Get the word out and make sure we get as many nominations as possible. The judges will decide who gets in after the current month.

Nominations can be done from November 1, 2015 to November 30, 2015, so don’t wait too long and let’s all nominate!!!

EMC World 2015: my plans for the week (thinking out loud)

Posted by on April 1, 2015 1 comment
Las Vegas

It’s that time of the year again: EMC World in Las Vegas, which takes place from May 4 to May 7. And this year I’m not going unprepared again. So I made a list of do’s and don’ts, so I can more easily pick the best way to spend my precious time. Are YOU going too?

So what’s my week about?

When I arrive in Vegas after having 2 layovers in London and Dallas, I’m probably half asleep. Because of the 9 hour time difference I’m sure I will sleep at very odd hours and be awake at even worse hours. I just hope I’m not sleepwalking through the casino, since I don’t even like gambling. Although it would be funny to wake up, finding out that I’ve won a few grand, right? My stay in Sin City will start with a packed two days filled with meetings. Yes: working on the Saturday and Sunday: it’s all part of the game! And that day I already have a meeting conflict, but the week will have plenty of opportunity to catch up with old friends, so I’m not worried there.

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EMC World 2015 discount codes available!

Posted by on March 27, 2015 4 comments
EMC World 2015

Limited amount of EMC World discount codes available

Just like in previous years the EMC Elect have a limited number of discount codes available for anyone who still needs to register for EMC World. The value of each code is $150! The amount of codes is limited and they expire on april 6, so if you need to register: follow up on this post and I’ll mail you your personal discount code.

  • The code can only be used for new registrations, if you already registered, the code won’t work.
  • Only 1 code per registration can be applied.
  • Codes only work for non-EMC people.
  • The code is worth $150.
  • If you know somebody who wants their own code: direct them to me and I’ll give them a code.

Hurry up! The codes stop working on April 6!!

EMC Elect 2015: who is on the list this year?

Posted by on February 23, 2015 1 comment
EMC Elect 2015

EMC Elect 2015

And then there were 102

A little bit later than usual, but the list has been made public. I want to stress that again this year every single person on the list was chosen because of their contribution to the community in 2014, whether that’s Twitter, a personal blog site, ECN (EMC Community Network), speaking in public or any other form of knowledge transfer of EMC products or services to the public community. Did I say public? Yes: every single person on the list has made an immense effort in trying to reach a broad audience. The most common ways to evangelize knowledge about EMC “stuff” are probably Twitter, ECN and blogging, but any other form of doing so is highly appreciated.

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EMC Elect 2015 – Who are the EMC Elect? You decide!

Posted by on August 25, 2014 No comments
EMC Elect 2015 nominations are open!

The events in which the EMC Elect 2014 are participating are still in full swing and although a lot of people aren’t thinking about 2015 yet, some of you might have wondered when the nominations for 2015 will start.

The nominations are open!

Last year the nominations for 2014 were opened at around EMC World ’13, but as of today you can nominate your community “hero” (or more than one) to become EMC Elect 2015. So think it through: if you know people who you think deserve to be Elect 2015, fill out the nomination form and participate in the nomination process of the new batch for 2015!

Please use this link to nominate: http://emc.im/Elect2015Nom

EMC Elect 2015 nominations are open!