I'm experiencing a kind of a flashback in the Canadian Institute Social Media conference this morning. The current speaker is Barnaby Jeans, Microsoft's lead guy focused on developers in Canada. His team uses social media to engage developers in the Canadian marketplace. This was my job in 1992! Blogs didn't exist, so we engaged developers on bulletin board networks (does anybody remember Canada Remote Systems?), email, and Compuserve. And today, Barnaby's team is focused on nearly 200,000 developers in Canada, whereas in my day there was a paltry 65,000.
The more it changes…
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
