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If you play Guitar Hero, join the SDN Rockers tour group online

Follow a code monkey in a journey through the SDN subscription program

At this year's demo jam, Dan McWeeney and I showed off a crazy little project called Majority Desk. The crowd was pumped and demo jam was a blast.

If you are here at Community Day in Vegas, come join us for an RIA with Flex hands on session

Starship Enterprisey podcast with Thomas Jung, "I Love ABAP"

Video interview that Dan and I did with Cote for RedmonkTV. It was shot during SAP Sapphire in Atlanta to discuss the SAP/CP Imagineering fellowship program.

Potential to tie enterprise search, widgets, and harmony into BI to create a social platform for business users to collaborate.

Find out how you can now earn SDN points and prizes by helping out with the SAPlink community project.

"A powerful global conversation has begun.... the result will be a new kind of conversation. And it will be the most exciting conversation business has ever engaged in." SAP & Colgate all aboard the cluetrain...full steam ahead.

What is Enterprise 2.0 and where does it fit in our SAP world?

Download this free, handy SDN geek toolbar for your favorite browser.

Playing around on a Friday evening after work, a couple of coworkers and I decided to do a little experiment integrating SAP BI, Ruby on Rails, and a Wii remote. Is there any room in the enterprise for Wii? Add a little fun to your day and check it out.

This handy BW variable redesign engine improves the old process of defining BW variables for customer exits in SAP. It is now available as a community project being distributed via SAPlink.

"Ed Herrmann and Dan McWeeney, winners of both the Las Vegas and Amsterdam 2006 Demo Jams stole, err... I mean borrowed a camera from the SDN Crew and went on a adventure to capture some of the great moments taking place during the 2006 Las Vegas TechEd" Description by Craig Cmehil

OK, most of us really don't "love" our cubicles, but here are some photos of where we work and our SDN wall of fame. Now that we have met some of our fellow SDN-crazies, we would like to "put a place with the face" and see where you work. Maybe we can get the SDN crew to award some extra points for the most creative work areas. Of course, you have to show off your SDN spirit to qualify. :)

Bridges never burn

Well here I am, once again writing a life changing moment in an post to so many people that I know out there. I’ve done this type of post before but I’m not sure I’ve done it with as many happy thoughts in my head swirling around distracting and exciting me at the same time.

Over the years I’ve done a lot of things, I’ve tried a lot of things and I’ve experienced a lot of things. I have no regrets; it’s something that I am extremely proud that I can honestly say! So what am I babbling about now?

Well as of February 1, 2012 I’ve started a new job at a new company, many of you will know the company and many of you will probably either laugh or stare right now with wide eyes. I’ve decided after long and careful thought to rejoin SAP as a Technology Evangelist.

Evangelism is no strange term to me and I’ve always been extremely happy being able to sit down with the non-believers and show them that all that marketing hoopla is actually based on reality! So coming back to work at SAP right now where the number of non-believers has grown recently is a challenge that I am eager to take on!

HANA, Mobile, Cloud, Gateway, the list goes on in terms of the technologies that I will be dealing with and I can’t wait to get my fingers into the mix and see what can be done and push the limits even further!

The past 10 years has been a strange ride for me, from moving to Germany to getting married to having children to getting divorced to changing jobs from one industry to another to making my own start-up and selling it to joining another start-up to working in development, community, communications, influencer relations.

Interestingly enough though, in my professional life there has always been a constant about what I do and how I do it and it’s always revolved around passion, motivation and dedication to something I believe it. So when the opportunity came up late last year with SAP I eagerly entered the conversation and as I learned more about what is happening and what is coming down the pipeline I simply found it harder and harder not to say yes. I’ve watched SAP change so much over the past several years and it looks to be changing even more as we speak!

Now is the time when I’ll be especially curious about what my friend and mentor Dennis Howlett has to say and of course Jon Reed, and of course what they say together. I’ll also be looking at every possible angle I can to convince another friend Vinnie Mirchandani that innovation is taking place and then the list goes on and on with all of the Enterprise Irregulars and of course my own buds over at the Enterprise Geeks.

It’s still the very early stages of the job and I’ve a lot of catching up to do on all sorts of things such as HANA, and there is a lot of stuff – have you seen all of this??

• HANA Blog  https://www.experiencesaphana.com/community/learn/experts
• Twitter: www.twitter.com/sapinmemory
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/hanabysap
• Youtube: www.youtube.com/saptechnology
• Slideshare: www.slideshare.net/hanabysap
• LinkedIn  Group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3683024&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr
•  HANA Microsite: www.experiencesaphana.com

Not to mention the Mobile things, which Sami and I will be reconnecting on the “Mobile World of SAP” podcast. Then there is Gateway and so many other projects to find out about!

Ones you may never have even heard about like Process Orchestration!

• LinkedIn group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/SAP-NetWeaver-Process-Orchestration-4153845
• Tour Demo: http://www.sap.com/asset/index.epx?id=6696492d-ca36-40fc-9c76-57e68f6405ac&name
• Video eBook: http://www.sap.com/community/ebook/2010_10_SAP_ClearVideo/index.html
• SAP Insider article: http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/20a80d40-dbda-2e10-7d93-e0d2e517bd50?QuickLink=index&overridelayout=true

It’s truly an exciting time to be into Technology and be at a company with so many things moving forward! I’m overwhelmed but not for long and I’ll do my best to bring it to all of you as quickly and easily and plainly as humanly possible!

In just 3 short days I’ve seen and heard about things that folks like Ed Herrmann and Dan McWeeney would say “let me at it” and folks like Anne Petteroe would say I’m in and even folks all the way over in India like Abesh Bhattacharjee would go nuts to get their hands on.

Expect to start hearing a lot more from me as the days go on!

That's one path to Geek Fitness

Season 4 Episode 9

In the spirit of New Years’ resolutions, we focus on the hot topic of how fellow eGeeks can get/stay in shape. Dan and I share some of our tips as well as some of the tools we use.  Please feel free to share your own tips in the comment section.

Craig also found an interesting article from mid-2011 which talks about the top gadgets of the year so far.  We use the power of hindsight to comment on (ridicule) these top choices.

• Geek Fitness
  • Tips to get Started
  • My Fitness Pal
  • Runkeeper
• The Best Gadgets of 2011 – a retrospective of where they are today
  • Original Article from PC World

Running Time: 48:04

If you have questions, suggestions, or topic ideas for future episodes, give us a shout here.

 

Leaders

A leader leads by example, not by force. ~Sun Tzu

Maybe some day we will do a live podcast from CES

Season 4 Episode 8

Back from a nice, long holiday break; we jump right into the tick of things with a recap of some of the cool stuff we got over the holidays as well as look ahead to 2012 thanks to the Consumer Electronics Show.  I also share my thoughts and experiences from my first two weeks working with SAP HANA.

• A little holiday recap
  • LEGOs have come a far way
  • Star Wars The Old Republic – Join Ed and myself on the Shii-Cho server and perhaps we could even start an Enterprise Geeks Guild.
• The International Consumer Electronics Show
  • 3D TVs in decline?
  • The year of the ultraportable?
  • Tablet overload?
  • Hardware is dead, long live Software
• HANA Application Development
  • XS Engine

Running Time: 52:53

If you have questions, suggestions, or topic ideas for future episodes, give us a shout here.

From the Dortmund Zoo

Such a majestic creature deserves better. I just saw this on Facebook from some friends and immediately not only had to share it but felt the need to do another step and post it as well. When I see things like this I realize the real power and value of social networks and how we as individuals can not only make a difference but encourage others to do as well. Be a hero and do your part whether it is for this or something else but speak up and take a stand!

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