Archives for February, 2011

Reflections on my first two weeks at Dell

I’ve been at Dell a whole two weeks. I spent those first two weeks in Austin, and the entire time was jammed full of meeting people, figuring out the Dell corporate systems, and figuring out who I should be meeting. I was thrown right into work – think hit the ground running times 10. There [...]

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Can an educator be happy as a marketer?

My new position at Dell Storage is technically a marketing position. People have asked me – you just got your master’s degree in education – how can you do marketing (this is usually after jokes about a techie crossing over to the dark side…). I have always thought there was lots of education skill needed [...]

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My new adventures will be at Dell!

All of the legalities are complete! I’ve accepted a position to work with social media with the Dell Storage team – I start on Valentines Day. I’m looking forward to the position. I get to be technical, and I get to do social media. I was getting away from the technical side a bit this [...]

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