Social Computing for the Database Professional Jason Massie, Terremark Brent Ozar, Quest Software

Bachelor #1: Brent Ozar SQL Server Expert for Quest Software SQLServerpedia Ed. Former DBA, SAN, VM admin for $7b co. Blog: BrentOzar.com

Bachelor #2: Jason Massie Manager, DBA Terremark Interests include other RDBMS, the Cloud, and taking suckas to the pwnshop. Blog:JasonMassie.com

Today’s Agenda Yesterday’s, Today’s, Tomorrow’s DBA TweetDeck Real time search Crowd sourcing Blogging Tips and tools for the hardcore Source:

DBAs of Yore Day 1: Product Released Day 2: We RTFM’d Day 3: Asked Questions Usenet, Forums Source:

4 Letters Changed Everything

Why This Matters to You Fast release cycles No documentation No best practices You’re on the cutting edge

Help 140 Characters at a Time

As Interesting As You Make It

TweetDeck Demo

Jason Follows @Scoblizer Search – SQL, SQLPASS, Cloud, RDBMS, Oracle, MySQL of course.

Brent Follows @CodingHorror

The Internets but real time It is all about search! Images of the Hudson crash from the boat rescuing them. Live reports from events as they happen. The release date of XXX Server 2008 before it is official

Asking for Help Part 1

Asking for Help Part 2

The Man (?) Behind DBCC

Not Everyone Can Do This

Meet Connor

“Cisco just offered me a job! Now I have to weigh the utility of a fatty paycheck against the daily commute to San Jose and hating the work.”

Crowd sourcing Crowdsourcing is a distributed problem-solving and production model. Problems are broadcast to an unknown group of solvers in the form of an open call for solutions. The crowd submits solutions. The crowd also sorts through the solutions, finding the best ones. - Wikipedia

Crowd sourcing examples Community driven new or answer sites Informal polls to your networks Wiki’s Open source SD projects e.g. Codeplex

Crowdsourcing Demo #2 Results of our informal Twitter poll

Blogging Wordpress See Brent’s blogging series Read, comment, link Etiquette Self hosted vs. SQL blog networks

Blogging Demo Credit: passionweiss.com/

Social Networking Tips Be personable Keep it real. Be personal Don’t buddy spam Do not worry about “What’s in it for me” Focus on providing value 1 st Lurk. 2 nd Contribute. 3 rd Evangelize.

Hard-Core Social Tools Google blog search\alerts FriendFeed.com Ping.fm BrightKite.com Facebook\linkedin\plaxo\social darling RSS Cloud and Pubsubhubbub

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