So it’s been almost 2 weeks since I left Microsoft for Telligent, but because of vacation I’ve only worked 6 days. Here are some random thoughts I’ve been meaning to blog.
- At first the “Company All” e-mails on random topics like surface computing seemed odd, then I remembered that those mails doesn’t go to 60k employees.
- Having an entirely remote team, I IM much more frequently.
- Thanks to everyone at Telligent for responding to my IMs and answering my dumb questions. Not sure if I was allowed one or two weeks of dumb questions. I think I’m just about done.
- OMG, there aren’t thirty sharepoint sites to update. In fact, there are no sharepoint sites… oh wait, this is a good thing. I can’t tell you how many times I groaned every time a manager at Microsoft would say “you know what we need a cool internal site for… but lets spend lots of time on it so it doesn’t look like every other sharepoint site that no one visits”. I think the only cool internal site I worked on was as an SDET when I made a “Bug Hunter” parody site based on the crocodile hunter.
- I’ve been mini’d again. And mini is truly one of my friends… on Facebook. I love being part of a “Power Couple”. I know that Evan is mini.
- I enjoyed one of my first meetings back on campus when someone who didn’t know I’d worked there explained to me what a GPM and a Program Manager was. I just smiled. Only one of the two actually manages people you know. 🙂
- Things move much quicker, they have to.
- I don’t miss my M4 Tablet… not one bit. I like my 6 year old VIAO more. I’ll never own a Toshiba “Craplet” again. I heard that people at Microsoft where all over stuff in my office like monitors, speakers, keyboards as if they had been hungry vultures circling for weeks over a dead body… but no one fought over the M4.
- There is a TON of untapped opportunity for Community Server and the sites leveraging it.