SAP Network Blog: Gail Moody-Byrd

What You've Told Us in 2011: SAP Community Matters
We asked people to put into words the instinctive sense they have that this community is valuable. We of course heard from our trusted power users, who articulated revelations they had this year about the importance of the community connection. Another bounty was that we found new voices – of brand new and emerging members and of people who have relied upon us for years, quietly chopping away at their jobs with the help of the community Dec. 16, 2011
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The New SAP Community Network: Read All About It – Weekly, with Storify
The anticipation of the launch of the new modern platform for our community is growing each week. Members previews of the site are continuing (at SAP Tech Ed Las Vegas, then in Bangalore and Madrid), more Tips in a Minute are released, and blogs about how the project is progressing are being published. We’ve begin publishing a weekly round-up of feedback, comments and overall community kudos. They are called The NEW SCN: Sharing the Excitement. Oct. 18, 2011
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We’re Listening: How the NEW SCN Is Incorporating User Feedback
The Community Network team has been getting feedback for years on the ways you’d like to see the site change to better suit your needs. We know you’ve wanted simpler navigation, easier blogging tools and more a personalized information flow, for example. We learned we can save users precious seconds by adding a few simple clues to speed acclimation - - explaining terms, features and procedures - AND how to make the site more welcoming and engaging... Watch this three –minute video showing screen shots of the changes we are making because of you Oct. 12, 2011
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The Value Was in the Conversation ! Embracing Inclusion with Design Thinking – Driving Innovation
I had a radically different take on the value of the "Embracing Inclusion" event - that the value was in the conversation teams had to complete the exercise - and what we can learn about how we instinctively bring our cultural personas/personalities to a conversaton and fail to "hear and include" people "not like us". Sep. 22, 2011
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Get Ready for the NEW SCN - Expand Your Profile
Expand your profile to take full advantage of the functionality to connect with and follow other members. All of your profile information will be migrated to the new profile on SCN – make sure it’s complete and describes your interest and skills. Sep. 21, 2011
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Mobile Electronic Medical Records from SAP – Reduce Paperwork and Save Lives – A Mobile Medical Expert Explains
SAP Mobile Insights Webcasts Series continues with a focus on Mobility in Healthcare. In this blog, I share my discussion with our presenter, Jan Korten of SAP, who will preview SAP's mobility framework for healthcare during the webcast. Aug. 14, 2011
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4 Tips After 4 Years - Blogging on SAP Community Network
As SAP Community Network has become THE social network for SAP professionals, its blog area has become the desired destination for blogs authored by many NEW bloggers. The best approach to blogging on SCN combines expert knowledge AND observations, opinions and experiences. There’s no formula – its blend of art and science. I am asked daily what the ingredients of a good blog are – from newbies looking for advice.I share my four tips and selected blogs that are effective for one of those four reasons. Jul. 19, 2011
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Previewing Our Upcoming Webcast Unwiring Your Enterprise with SAP with Speaker Dan Ortega from Sybase, an SAP Company
The SAP Mobility Insights Webcast Series is designed orchestrate a conversation that addresses questions from SAP’s customers and community about our strategic direction for 2011. Dan is leading the first webcast in this series: Unwiring Your Enterprise with SAP - Mobile Strategy, Trends and Lessons Learned. In this blog, I interview Dan to get a preview of how this webcast will address fundamental questions posed by our customers and partners. Mar. 16, 2011
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#TWTRCON and Twitter: So Big Yet So Small
I decided to “claim SAP’s space” in the Twitter economy by spending the day informally sharing our success with this TWTRCON - assembled crowd of “experts” (putting yet another SAP flag on the social moon as we did at Blogwell last week). The big lesson for me? Reputation is happening from the ground up – one connection at a time – Twitter-dom is still very cottage and the hype is ahead of the reality. We internal SAP experts need to “get out more” as we have expertise that’s at the tip of the spear – “experts” are still very eager to hear about our trajectory. Nov. 19, 2010
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Social Media Earns Kudos from Experts and Our Members - Did You Know?
Recently the SAP Community team has successfully integrated social media into SCN, offering another route for communication between members. How do we know we're succeeding? First, a key analyst recently recognized us for the success of our Facebook fanpage. Second, a new member complimented us on our social media integration, indicative of a trend. Aug. 3, 2010
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Empowering the Community to Speak: Why SCN is Great, According to Our Members
We have had some really powerful testimonials from customers about the value of the community come our way lately. Here, I pull some of the "best of" together, and encourage you to give a nod to the contributors, get some tips and pass them on to colleagues. Jul. 19, 2010
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SAPPHIRENOW Online Event Details Now Available
Can't get to SAPPHIRENOW in person? Now you can attend virtually by accessing over 400 HD-quality broadcasts of sessions live from Orlando and Frankfurt. Learn more about the SAPPHIRENOW online platform and how you can participate live in discussions with session speakers and attendees around the world. May. 5, 2010
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Have you heard the latest news? General Colin L. Powell will deliver the keynote at the ASUG general session @SAPPHIRENOW in Orlando
General Colin Powell will be in Orlando at the ASUG General Session. Don’t miss the opportunity to hear General Powell speak at the ASUG general session on the subject of Leadership: Taking Charge Apr. 13, 2010
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SAP EcoHub Live! Solution Extensions from SAP - A Virtual Event with Live Twitter Interaction
Tweet with the Experts to Discover Solutions to Improve Your SAP Implementation Attend Our Virtual Event “SAP EcoHub Live! Solution Extensions from SAP” Jan. 11, 2010
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“Driving Value with the SAP Community Network: Quotes and Testimonials” ...Hot Off the Presses
SCN has had an outstanding year of quotes and accolades from analysts, customers, partners, SAP Mentors and Standards and Open Source Group participants. This newly launched eBook, SAP Community Network: Driving Business Value: Quotes and Testimonials, shares the best of these comments in an engaging format. Dec. 3, 2009
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SCN Active Contributor Blog Contest: What Does Being Active Mean to You?
Write a blog and enter it in our SCN Active Contributor Blog Contest. If you're a regular on SCN, we want to know your story and share it with the uninitiated. Why are you an Active Contributor? Work? Passion? Fun? Oct. 13, 2009
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Get Active. Stay Active. Build Your Reputation.
Being an Active Contributor on SCN builds your reputation, visiblity, and knowledge base. We have built a new area on SCN, called Get Active. Stay Active, that gives you lots of tips on how to earn 250 points in a year to become an Active Contributor. You'll also learn how your activity helps fund SAP's PlaNet Finance contribution for 2009. Sep. 4, 2009
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Linking up, Social Media Style, in the SAP Community Network: How Our Communities Rise Above the Rest
Today, SAP.info featured an interview with Mark Yolton, SVP of SAP Community Network (SCN), on what makes our approach to communities unique. The article outlines the benefits to companies and individuals, web 2.0 based collaboration examples, and linkages to other platforms, such as Twitter. As an active participant in the community, this is not news to you - you've contributed to the creation of such a successful network of peers. Aug. 4, 2009
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Five Ways the NEW SAP Community Network Content Widgets Enhance Your Community Experience
Have you noticed the “Get This” buttons on the home pages of SDN, BPX, and BusinessObjects communities? These are recently launched widgets, powered by Newsgator. They provide easy access to topics of interest to you using a compelling viral widget technology Jun. 18, 2009
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P&G Improves Productivity and Lowers Costs with the Communities at SAP – Customer’s View of the Benefits
Procter and Gamble leverages the Communities at SAP to improve productivity and lower costs - in a collaborative workgroup with the ES Community to centralize sales data, and by connecting with peers in the SAP Developer Network. Hear about it in this video, as told by P&G’s Order Management Global Solution Owner. Jun. 15, 2009
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SAP Partner Kick-Off Meeting, January 15, 2009, Offers Keynotes and Live Community Networking
The SAP Partner Kick-Off Meeting (PKOM), held on January 15, 2009 will offer helpful keynotes on winning in this challenging environment plus live community-driven interactive capabilites to find connections with SAP experts and partners. Dec. 10, 2008
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SAP Offers Customers a Program to Help Weather Tough Economic Conditions: The Best Run Now Program
SAP has acted in an unprecedented manner to help customers manage through tough and challenging economic times, creating several targeted solution offers, built around common business problems in these uncommon times, under the umbrella of the Best Run Now program. Nov. 4, 2008
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SAP Communities Receive Glowing Accolades from Jack Welch, former CEO of GE in Business Week
GE's former CEO Jack Welch applauds our SAP Communities in an article on "The Importance of Being Sticky" in the latest Business Week. He notes that our building of user communities creates a feeling of partnership - he calls out our annual event(Tech Ed)where customers meet with IT experts, developers and each other and produce great results for all. Sep. 17, 2008
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Ask the Execs Tech Ed Las Vegas Video from 2007 Now On Line
Ask the Execs Tech Ed Las Vegas Video from 2007 now available on SAP Community You Tube channel Aug. 28, 2008
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Got a question? Get it Answered! Record a Video Question and Submit it to SAP Tech Ed 2008.
Got a question? Get it Answered! Record a Video Question and Submit it to SAP Tech Ed 2008. Get the details here at Ask the Execs at SAP TechEd 2008. Winning questions will be posted on the SAP Communities channel on You Tube. Aug. 20, 2008
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Collaborative Innovation
SAP provides products and tools today to enable collaborative innovation, increasing personal productivity and providing collaborative workspaces. This first blog introduces the topic and seeks examples others have to share. Apr. 16, 2008
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