Difference between revisions of "Robert Scoble"
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| − | + | After college worked for Fawcette Technical Publications and then for Winnov, a manufacturer of webcams. His job supporting webcam users led him to be active in Microsoft's NetMeeting support newsgroups, for which activity he was named a Microsoft MVP. | |
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| + | Dave Winer had told him "that blogging was hot," so he left Fawcette and joined Winer's UserLand Software, which was a content management and blogging software startup. He worked for John Robb as Director of Marketing. After the startup ran out of money and was unable to pay his salary, Robert worked for free for a month and eventually had to switch jobs. | ||
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| + | He found a job at NEC Mobile Solutions from a Craigslist posting as Sales Support Manager for TabletPC. His job responsibility was to answer all the phones and all the emails with support/sales requests. He had started using blogs (a skill learned in UserLand) to provide tech support and listen to feedback from NEC customers. | ||
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| + | His blog was noticed by Vic Gundotra (then General Manager of Platform Evangelism at Microsoft), and Robert accepted his offer to work at Microsoft. | ||
After leaving Microsoft he worked for Fast Company as a video blogger. | After leaving Microsoft he worked for Fast Company as a video blogger. | ||
