Green PM

After watching Scoble and others blog about information overload in the sheer volume of feeds and social contacts in the wake of the more thoroughly connected internet, I'm not ashamed to reflect the same... and I don't have near the volume of many of my peers, let alone Scoble. I need to get a lot smarter about which feeds I subscribe to and which I can live without. How do you decided what/who to follow?

 

The "trust issue" has been raised by a good number of our customers in surveys and focus groups when talking about this. Korby and team have been working on Claimspace of course to address this, but cool as that will be, will it be enough? If I have 50 blogs I'm following from well-trusted peers, and another 50 from mainstream services (think Digg, etc), how much of that can I really pay attention to?

 

Perhaps we need to create a "miniweb" of those sites and people that we know/trust that we can search on demand... it's the old intranet concept, but without regard to corporate firewalls.

 

Looking forward to talking to folks at TechEd about this!

Headed to TechEd in Orlando next week. Looking forward to chatting with all you Microsoft customers and partners! We want to know what kind of goodness we should be building into MSDN and TechNet. You can find me at those booths and/or with my Community buddies: Tshak, Don, and Doug.

 

BTW, as this is my first entry on the new blog, the explanation on the URL is two-fold: 1) I'm new to the PM role (officially, though I've been doing PM work under other titles in other teams for a while), but 2) I'm also "green" on the Insights Discovery System, which is pretty rare for a PM-type dude. So, you can be sure that I really, really want to understand you and be understood :) apparently, even more than I want to actually ship anything. LOL