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Voting Lessons Learned

Started by manalang · 9 months ago

Now that the suggest a session for OpenWorld campaign has ended, it’s time to reflect on what we learned.

First off, thanks to everyone who submitted a session idea. There were 281 submitted before the deadline, and someone even figured out how to create a session after we clo ... Continue reading »

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  • carlback

    11 months ago

    >>> What is it about APEX?

    Well we have been the underground go getters for awhile. Big at OOW for years , bigger at ODTUG this year, and bigger yet at OOW this coming year. That's what I call steady progress and upward movement.

    I , personally, think our popularity has more to do with the what APEX is, sure you can build an application with it, but what we really are is a thin skin on top of the power of the Oracle database, and if there is one thing people know in the Oracle community is the power of the Oracle database.

    >>> storming the voting

    Ahh you make that sound bad. We have a vibrant , dedicated and enthusiastic user community, what product wouldn't want that :) .

    Since the days of (Project Marvel --> HTMLDB --> ) APEX we've been very community oriented, pretty much based out of the OTN forums , which we've always told people is the best place for latest and greatest ideas examples and support , and then moving on to blogs , wiki's and http://mix.oracle.com as the new ways of spreading the word come along.

    You guys gave the community a chance to vote and don't think they / we won't take it.

    There's some great sessions in there, even some of the ones that have APEX prominent in the title can be applied to all sorts of web development environments https://mix.oracle.com/ideas/31740-rapid-develo... and https://mix.oracle.com/ideas/30082-re-developin... it just is much easier to implement in an APEX environment , go to the session and see for yourself.

    Finally the number one vote getter is Raj's session https://mix.oracle.com/ideas/35275-security-wri... and if you've ever seen Raj present well it speaks for itself, freakin amazing!
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  • Jake

    11 months ago

    Nothing wrong with storming the vote. I'm glad to see a vibrant community take advantage of this opportunity to showcase some of its stars.

    I hope the promotion continues too. I'm not sure if the official show guide will point out the sessions picked by the community. With so much to see, I hope they don't get lost.

    You should get together and live blog them, record, etc. so those who voted but couldn't attend can still benefit virtually.
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  • Steve Stein

    11 months ago

    Thanks Jake for the mention above - please everyone attend my winning presentation at OpenWorld, I'm sure there will be some mention there of which presentations are the Mix winners, and enjoy the Visual Dashboard Design blog. I've been blogging for 10 years now, that's right, 10 years! From 1998 to 2002 I posted entries at http://sstein.tripod.com that look like a blog, using my own home-made HTML code to make it look just like modern blogs look today. The blog got some nice attention back then and my content was syndicated in 1999 by a since-defunct start-up website called The Daily Drill. The Daily Drill was an early cut at a portal, and my content was one of many topics subscribers could choose to include on their portal page. We didn't have RSS feeds back then, I just e-mailed them an Excel spreadsheet with a few months of content at a time.

    http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_...

    Also those years gave me a real-world education on how to carefully, methodically promote a website without hurting (spamming) people, and as a result I have gotten feedback over the years that the content helped people and they appreciated that I encouraged them to follow me to the valuable education that my blog provided.

    I am still at it... these days I host a podcast that Mix members might like, called Visual Dashboard Design.

    www.blogtalkradio.com/BI-Dashboard-Steve

    So what's all this got to do with the Mix? First of all, good luck to us and thank you and everyone who develops and uses the Mix, and everyone who voted for, commented on, and/or took interest in my presentation. There is really nothing I can say that fully expresses this appreciation. I hope that my use of the Mix that you speak about in your post results in a winning presentation and blog that is truly valuable for the Oracle community... Visual Dashboard Design using OBIEE and Hyperion et al. for Business Intelligence that that adds value to the companies we work for, and improves the daily life of the people who work there.
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  • Jake

    11 months ago

    I hope they decide to designate the Mix winners somehow in the show guide. Anyone attending who followed the voting over the past few months will likely have a curiosity about seeing the content.

    This program has a neat effect, almost like you participated in the planning phase, rather than just seeing a bunch of sessions in the show guide. I'd be interested to see the demographics of the people who attend the winning sessions, i.e. how many found out about them via Mix.

    I'm hoping the winners won't be at conflicting times. Anyway, see you there.
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  • Sophia

    9 months ago

    Yo Jake, where can we see the final list of nominated (and winning) sessions? I did notice that mix sessions were marked as such in the show guide. A nice win!
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  • Jake

    9 months ago

    I blogged the list of winners here:
    http://theappslab.com/2008/07/21/congratulation...

    Nominated sessions have most likely faded into the other ideas by now, but you can see them by browsing the hashtag we applied.

    https://mix.oracle.com/ideas/tags/%23oow
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