Kim takes a new job
I've been working in the Novell Technical Services group since I started. I've been running the Novell Forums for years. I've been running their support/training/consulting web site as well as manage a team of web developers the last couple of years. I've always worked *with* the Novell marketing department and now they want me to be an official marketing dweeb and manage all Novell communities (forums, facebook, myspace, blogs, wikis, etc. etc.). I accepted. I take the forums/SysOps with me but leave behind the rest of what I have been doing so I can concentrate on this. We'll see how it goes. As long as it pays the bills, right?
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You ARE aware of Novell Marketing's reputation, right? Look up "Incompetent" in the Thesaurus and you'll find a reference to Novell Marketing.
They're taking a well known expert in the technical forums space and placing him in the marketing department.
How much freedom are they giving you? If you're under much supervision at all, I wonder if this might be a not-so-good career move.
Then again, NTS's reputation has been going downhill ever since they decided to send jobs to India. Maybe this was a better career move, but I wonder if it may be better to find a new company altogether.
They need some serious help.
Chad: Yea, I know. It's a chance for me to at least make the community portion of Marketing to work right. I'll be pretty much autonomous. New company? You think I want to move to Redmond or Chicago? Don't think so.
Hope it's works good for ya.