manalang

Those of you who know me, know that I used to work for PeopleSoft (up until we got acquired by Oracle). Now, I work at Oracle. At PeopleSoft, I used to have an internal blog that focused on the products I worked on (PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal and general PeopleSoft tools and technology… PeopleTools and the like) targeted for employees in the field. The title of the blog was “Sales Geekery: A weblog by technology nerds dedicated to hacking, evangelizing, and selling PeopleSoft technology”. Much of what I wrote focused on how-to topics. I’ve always thought that it would be useful for customers to see the information I wrote about, but at the time PeopleSoft didn’t have an official blogging policy and most employees who had blogs internally were a bit shy about writing for a public audience — probably because of the competetive nature of the ERP industry.

Fast forward to today. I’m now an Oracle employee. There are a number of Oracle employees who blog publicly, although, apparently we don’t have a public blog policy at Oracle. I did, however, talk with Brian Duff (the creator of Orablogs) and he did say that Oracle’s corporate communications policy applies to blogging just as it does to customer communications. Apparently, there was talk about putting together an official Oracle blogging policy about a year ago.

So, I’m going to try a little experiment here. I’m going to start writing articles here similar in nature to the ones I wrote on my internal PeopleSoft blog. I think it’ll be helpful for customers who use our products and a good vehicle for sharing information within the PeopleSoft developer community. So, if you’re a PeopleSoft developer, stay tuned.

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