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Blogger Day Recap
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Event Information
• Event conducted in conference room at the Westin Domain
• Multiple one-hour chalk talk from OEM SME’s including:– Franklin Flint
– Josh Neland
– Deryl Browning, Product Group
– Zac Cravens – Non-standard customization engineer
– Shawn Hammer – Custom Branding Mechanical Engineer
– Tom Holt – Custom Branding Mechanical Engineer
– Donnie Gerhart – Software and BIOS customization engineer
• CFS/EBC tour
• Happy Hour and dinner at the Daily Grill in the Domain
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Bloggers in attendance
• John Obeto, Absolutely Windows
• Hector Russo, Geek’s Room (Spanish)
• Sandro Villinger, Windows-Tweaks (Germany)
• Jeffrey Powers, Geekazine
• Andrew Lyle, Neowin
• Devang Panchegar, Storage Nerve
• Kevin Houston, Blades Made Simple
• Brad Butner, Tech Virtuoso
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Agenda7:30-8:00 Breakfast
8:00-9:00 Welcome/State of the industry –Franklin Flint/Josh Neland
9:00-10:00 Dell OEM Solutions Customization Overview - Browning
10:00-11:00 Looking under the hood: Non-standard Customization: Cravens
11:15-1:00 Break/lunch
1:00-1:30 BIOS and Software Customization - Gerhart
1:30-2:30 Custom Hardware Branding – Hammer/Holt
2:30-3:30 Blogging/Q&A time
3:30-5:00 CFS Tour/Photo opps around Dell Campus
Schedule:
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Day-of Event Traffic Monitor
*Data accurate as of 1:45pm CST
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Sample Tweets
“RT @johnobeto: At Dell OEM, engineering teams are available to interact with prospects/customers #delloemday [oem blog http://ow.ly/3oWE4]” “Reminder: Dell OEM differs from basic IT sales #delloemday” “Annual revenue of Dell OEM group: over a billion #DellOEMDay” “Dell does customized branding on [some?] products, very Interesting for large corporations #delloemday” “Reason #2 for using Dell OEM over do it your self: guaranteed solution. No worries that hardware will have issues #DellOEMDay” “RT @johnobeto: Dell OEM allows software appliance companies to come to market quickly without having to becoming hardware companies #delloemday” “Reason #1 for using Dell OEM over build-it-yourself: worldwide support #DellOEMDay”
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Dell OEM Day Twitterverse
• Tweeting started on December 10 and continues• 237 Tweets to date• 51 Unique Twitter Accounts• 10 Dell Employees• 8 Bloggers who attended event
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Photos from Event
Touring the EBC
Inside the T7500
Holt Discusses Bezels
Outside the EBCStreak Show and Tell
Gerhart Talks Custom BIOS
Bezel Close up
20+ pictures.Video capture of entire event.
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Blog Posts to date
• Blades Made Simple – “Lessons Learned from Dell OEM Day”
• I was surprised by the knowledge of the Dell OEM’s team existence – which I imagine is partially why the 8 of us bloggers were invited.
• Blades Made Simple – “Dell’s Super-Secret Society”
• On Tuesday I have the pleasure of joining a handful of other bloggers in Round Rock, TX, to visit with one of Dell’s top secret societies – the Dell OEM group. Okay, perhaps they aren’t that big of a secret, but I didn’t know there was such a division.
• Geekazine – “Dell OEM Day: We Arrive in Austin, TX”
• Geeks Room – “Dell OEM nos invitó a Austin, Texas para introducirnos en su servicio.”