ARSlist is definitely where all started, thanks to *Dan *(and great support from *Doug *-- see slide 3 <https://communities.bmc.com/docs/DOC-26614>)
Adding more explanations regarding terminology: - "BMC Communities" (this name) indeed is 2 years old - "Developer Network" was the previous name (started in 2006, with a far smaller scope) - Online Collab for BMC ecosystem actually started in 2000 (see on slideshare 13 years of online community <http://bit.ly/177vY2B>) Even if BMC Communities is orchestrated by BMC, it's designed *for *users, *by *users, and there is no censorship: - see slide 6 <https://communities.bmc.com/docs/DOC-26614>, LJ <https://communities.bmc.com/people/lj.longwing>(and Laurent<https://communities.bmc.com/people/lmame>also for example) recently reviewed "next gen of BMC Communities" (that we plan to launch in Nov or so) - see slide 7 <https://communities.bmc.com/docs/DOC-26614>, Syd <https://communities.bmc.com/people/syddent>made his own blog posts for SLM (and we for sure like such engagement - *you *can join Community Managers Collab<https://communities.bmc.com/groups/community-managers-collab> should you be interested, for this product and others) - Moderation is often done by customers/prospects (not only BMC Employees) The "forum" part of BMC Communities has a pretty decent size (17,000 new discussions in the past 12 months) The scope of BMC Communities also includes: - Blog posts from Experts to proactively share tips (in each Product Community <https://communities.bmc.com/community/bmcdn> - mostly R&D/Support, but users like Syd post too) - Ideas <http://bit.ly/Kkf31S> that you can post or vote on (to influence roadmap - see Product Ideas<https://communities.bmc.com/groups/product-ideas> ) - Beta Programs, and Advisory Boards<https://communities.bmc.com/community/programs> - Full BMC Portfolio (Control-M, Bladelogic, Patrol/ProactiveNet, CLM, Mainframe, etc.) BMC Communities actually covers the full Customer lifecyle<http://bit.ly/BMCC_ppt1> Cheers, Matt Laurenceau +33 6 73 51 94 85 Sr Community Ambassador, BMC Communities http://bit.ly/MattProfiles Skype: matt.laurenceau On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Blairing <[email protected]> wrote: > Q: can you comment on the differences between BMC communities and the > ARSLIST? > > Bloom: depth of long term expertise and fast response are best found on > ARSLIST. ARSLIST is email based which gets around web page blockers in some > locations. ARSLIST is also independent from BMC. > > Mueller: ARSLIST has been around for 20 years, BMC Communities for 2. > ARSLIST is customer driven. BMC communities supports multiple products > without some of the social aspect. There are overlaps. Communities includes > many BMC employees as participants, ARSLIST less so. If the technology had > been around in 1993, chances are that ARSLIST would have been a web > forum.... > > Doug > > -- > Doug Blair > +1 224-558-5462 > > Sent from my new iPad > Auto-corrected typos, misspellings and non-sequiturs are gratefully > attributed to Steve Jobs :-) > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years" > -- ~ Matt Laurenceau, BMC Software Senior Community Ambassador, BMC Communities [email protected] Follow me at @Matt_L <https://twitter.com/matt_L> Skype: matt.laurenceau _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
