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Provocative but needs some factual corrections

Hi Dennis:

I often find your blogs interesting and provocative (whether I agree with their hypotheses or not), and this one caught my attention as others have in the past. But I'm sometimes disappointed when some of the basic facts are wrong.

Example this time:

You say about SAP's SDN and BPX communities: "There?s not a huge number of blogs..." Huh?

The facts are: We have 1100 approved bloggers, 60% of whom are non-SAP employees, with some people more active while others have gone quiet over the years. These blogs date back to May 2003 (2 blogs in that first month) to today (145 blogs last month during June 2007), the grand total of which is in the many-thousands. For a non-publishing company, I'd say that IS a huge number.

You also say that SDN and BPX are not "backed by user success stories which is a gaping void..."

But if you link here -- https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/x/uY8 -- you will find testimonial interviews with community members who work for companies like Siemens, Kimball, Widener University, Cardinal Healthcare, Tesoro, Wipro... You'll also see a representative sample of the hundreds of "notable quotes" we receive (these get redundant after awhile -- for example we asked for feedback and received more than 100 glowing comments within a couple of days but the themes were similar -- so we just offer a sampling).

We're working on a project to offer more success stories bundled together for easier access and findability, but for the most part they are embedded in individual blogs, not as a list of success stories. Remember, we are NOT a marketing-oriented website, but rather we are a community focused on connecting our customers and partners and employees so they can collaborate and co-innovate ... so the "marketing stuff" like success stories get pushed to the bottom of the priority list - but we're putting some attention to this topic.

Otherwise, enjoy your provocative stirring of ideas, observations, and opinions.

Best regards,

Mark Y.

Posted by: mark.yolton@...   Posted on: 07/19/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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