Electromagnetic Compatibility

Sorry, given the fact that I travel a ton, this is a new blog and I get about 10 ‘comments’ a day in Russian, I try to keep the spam off my blog. Much like Marc, there isn’t anything that I don’t post if it is a comment, I just don’t like to see a bunch of gibberish on the blog after a 10 hour flight to Israel.

Thanks for the comments.

I am being censored?

DrDedupe

Thanks, I feel much better now-

DrDedupe

I am not going to go down the road of the company policy on blogging, at least as it pertains to BRS before vs. after DD while I was there because it became very different, but lets hope that openness and thought leadership carry us forward and we all will get to have some very passionate discussion about storage because that is what we all do care about.

Thanks again Polly.

Glad to see the passion. Everyone contributing to this discussion is doing leading-edge stuff — and as you know, there are no guide books when you’re in the lead!

Just wanted to confirm that the company philosophy on blogging, and other 2.0 engagement at EMC remains unchanged. We are, I believe, hugely lucky to have so many leaders (at every level of the org chart) who understand the importance of this new model, and embrace it. I actually quote the EVP of HR, Jack Mollen, fairly often on his comments relating to modern workforce management such as,

o “Treat people like adults.”
o “Lead with trust.” And, my favorite,
o “We’re leveraging the global genius of our workforce.”

Funny enough, as you morph away from universal “command and control” behavior, this also means you no longer control everything/everyone/every divisional decision. As you likely have seen/heard/or experienced, key to EMC’s acquisition strategy is our first rule, “Don’t break it.”

So in the journey we’re all on, I believe we can expect to see frequent instances of ten steps forward, and two steps back. Just makes it all that much more interesting!

Cheers, Polly (PS: thanks for the love in your post)

But, if there is one thing that bugs me, its competitors posting links back to their own sites. If you are going to show up on somebody else’s property, give them the respect to have the conversation there – if you want to talk about a post or thread on your own site, that’s OK, but I don’t appreciate having links in comments to a competitor’s site. Have I done it? yes. Recently? No.

So I can see where this deal got a bit messy. If you had put this on my blog Steve, I definitely would have posted it – right away without even blinking. After reading it, I probably would have left it as-is, but might have removed the link and inserted a reasonable text description of where to find it. Then we might have had a similar discussion as this one, but maybe more personal, over coffee, beer or whatever.

However, then we get into the situation where you post on your product and your deadly rival comes along and trashes your product in the comments. So what do you do? Do you not approve the post and get accused of censorship? Do you approve and not respond? Or do you approve and enter a reasoned debate which you can never win anyway!

And we tend to see most of the bullying stuff, most of the libellous and most the poorly researched stuff in the comments, where it all gets a bit knee-jerk!

Or do you simply post endless PR fluff and not accept any comments?

This blogging stuff is hard but it’s miles better than what went before. It’s a careful balancing act, even those of us who call ourselves independent have to tread carefully. But I’d personally rather see what we have today rather than a state-controlled mouth-piece which just takes the company-line.