The
first issue of the Community Server Daily News is UP, Baby! Actually, the
second issue is up, too, but I partied like it was 1999 after getting the first issue online yesterday and even though I really wanted to blog about it, we all know that blogging and Budweiser
do not mix.
So we got the
Community Server Daily News up and running on day three. That's a Feel Good, for sure, but it wouldn't have happened without the guys at Telligent helping me so much putting the technical pieces in place to get up and running. I've never worked with people who are so scary efficient.
I didn't know the Community Server logo and graphic text font at
CommunityServer.org, for instance. I wanted to use it for the section headers and knew it wasn't in my Photoshop font list. I didn't want to blast the whole company org list with a font request so I sent it to the Technical Writing Group. Someone immediate replied with a CC to the Creative Group where the email was supposed to have been sent. And yet, within 10 minutes the font was sitting on my Vermont hard drive and I was cranking out the section header graphics in Photoshop with the correct font.
Here's a little anecdote for you from the New Guy. I was setup with Telligent email in Outlook last Thursday even though I didn't officially start with Telligent until this past Monday. So I did some serious lurking, watching the flow of communications between various internal development team members whose distrib lists I am on. My first impression?
"These guys are hard workin'!" I wasn't expecting such a machine gun rapid-fire of information. A topic comes up, back, forth, somebody else, back, resolution, next. Then there's a long quiet period where I'm sure the developers are heads-down, banging out code. Then a rapid burst of messages on a topic and things go quiet again.
Writing that last paragraph inspired a new yet already familiar inner-tussle on what to reveal about this strange new Telligent world. As editor of the Daily News, that question also naturally comes up. But I remember the first words
Jason Alexander used when he described the Community Server Evangelist position to me, "The first and foremost objective of a Community Server Evangelist is to promote transparency in Community Server and Telligent Systems." That will be my defense. Still, I can see and hear the whole scene in my mind, JasonA gives me a call and says, "Dude, you are so fired."
So until I get The Call, I'll keep publishing all the Community Server Daily News that's fit to print.