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20050427 Wednesday April 27, 2005

Humanizing Sun Yesterday, the blogs team was officially recognized by Scott McNealy and rest of the executive leadership team as one of 15 recipients of Chairman's awards. The title of our award was "blogs.sun.com: Humanizing Sun, Changing Perceptions and Re-Enlisting Champions".

Back row, left to right: Me, Dave Johnson, Simon Phipps, Will Snow, Tim Bray

Pat, we missed you. (2005-04-27 08:58:42.0) Permalink Comments [10]

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CONGRATS John! :-D

Posted by Skrocki on April 27, 2005 at 09:17 AM PDT #

Nice! A good photo for the wall. I believe that is the most dressed up I've ever seen Will. Lol.

Posted by DiTucci on April 27, 2005 at 09:49 AM PDT #

Thanks John, I was with you in thoughts: see them realized at http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/pat/20050427#humanizing_sun :-) Hope you guys had fun! P@

Posted by patrick chanezon on April 27, 2005 at 01:12 PM PDT #

Congrats! Hope they all give you raises!

Posted by Robert Scoble on April 27, 2005 at 02:42 PM PDT #

Well deserved, that's for sure!

Posted by John Clingan on April 27, 2005 at 06:45 PM PDT #

Seems ironical that Scott is presenting the award, although I understand it's the *Chairman's* Award. Scott, it's never too late ;) Congrats to the team though - very cool, very sexy.

Posted by Glynn Foster on April 27, 2005 at 09:36 PM PDT #

Great Job Ladies and Gents. The Authentic people who work at a Great Company. Real people with inspirational ideas at times; keeping focus on the product. The getting to know you folks that can help you with your complex computing needs and software; when your ready. well done; rtg.

Posted by GerwingR on April 27, 2005 at 11:52 PM PDT #

You guys have done just an outstanding smack it out of the park rollercoaster ride open up and build community job of this stuff. The deepening of the Sun RedMonk relationship through blogs has been one of the real pleasures of the last 12 months or so. Everyone at Sun involved in blogs and wikis have been helpful, courteous and high IQ. roller is popping up all over the place. As for making Sun human. I think the truth is you have democratized an already human face. In the 90s Scott was Sun, while now Jonathan is playing that role. But what is ever more apparent is the supporting cast, and for that i salute you all. One of the best things i read recently - Alan Coopersmith saying on his blog he now felt like Microsoft was more human... that's right - humanity is a two way street... as Scoble shows every day. You can have your raises when roller revenues start to kick in. it won't be long...

Posted by james governor on April 28, 2005 at 05:03 AM PDT #

oh yeah i also meant to point out Tim has some competition in the jaunty hat angle stakes - http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/archives/000634.html see the pic http://news.ft.com/cms/s/4cd4941e-3cab-11d9-bb7b-00000e2511c8.html#U1014668475451mB

Posted by James Governor on April 28, 2005 at 05:07 AM PDT #

That's nice!

Posted by Creford on July 21, 2005 at 05:02 AM PDT #

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