Were you at Interop last year? Want to relive all the excitement? Probably not, so why don’t you just check out some of the best videos I shot at the event while I was reporting for Dice.
Here are my five favorite videos from Interop 2011
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Google’s Vinton Cerf on the company’s culture of tolerating failure – Watch me make an incredibly stupid mistake interviewing one of the legends of the Internet |
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Interop 2011: Tour of the Network Operations Center (NOC) – The coolest thing they do at Interop every year, and I take a tour of the entire thing. |
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Funniest trade show booth I’ve ever seen – This was awesome, a mechanical bull on the trade show floor. |
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The latest trend in IT is the democratization of IT – My interview with Lenny Heymann, General Manager of the entire conference. |
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CIO Boot Camp: Is your IT department a Terminator? Is it Sponge Bob? Or is it Colin Powell? – IT departments get no respect. |
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Almost everyone who has a long first name, for which there are many shortened versions, must deal with this. If someone says their name, call them by that name and no other version. If a person introduces themselves as “Elizabeth” then that’s what you call her. You may want to call her “Liz” but that’s not what she wants. So don’t do it.
I’m monstrously guilty of this as I can immediately forget someone’s name the instant they tell it to me. Others who are guilty of this will declare, “I’m so bad at remembering names.” Nice try. Announcing your fallibility is not an excuse. Unless you’re being introduced to the entire choir, be in the moment and remember people’s names. If you need to, use some tricks such as associate that person with someone else you know with the same name. If it’s a name you’ve never heard before, repeat it back to make sure you’re pronouncing it correctly.
