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

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

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

4. Today’s Agenda Yesterday’s, Today’s, Tomorrow’s DBA TweetDeck Real time search Crowd sourcing Blogging Tips and tools for the hardcore Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/scriptingnews/2627291590/

5. DBAs of Yore Day 1: Product Released Day 2: We RTFM’d Day 3: Asked Questions Usenet, Forums Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/scriptingnews/2627291590/

6. 4 Letters Changed Everything

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

10. Help 140 Characters at a Time

11. As Interesting As You Make It

13. TweetDeck Demo

15. Jason Follows People Like… @_StevieWonder @DonaldFarmer @Scoblizer Search – SQL, SQLPASS, Cloud, RDBMS, Oracle, MySQL And @SQLPass of course.

16. Brent Follows People Like… @SQLRockstar @Wendy_Dance @BadBanana @DontTryThis @CodingHorror

17. 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

18. Asking for Help Part 1

21. Asking for Help Part 2

22. The Man (?) Behind DBCC

24. Not Everyone Can Do This

25. Meet Connor

26. “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.”

28. 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

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

31. Crowdsourcing Demo #2 Results of our informal Twitter poll

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

33. Blogging Demo Credit: passionweiss.com/

34. 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.

35. 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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