Mark Schoonover has asked me to take over the LinkedIn Group for MySQL Certified Professionals. We are still working out the details but I would like to ask the almost 200 members of that group and any potentially interested others what they would like to see this professional community become.
Personally, I am going to need a platoon of MySQL Exam beta test guinea pigs and this group looks like a great source for talent people.
But what do the members want?
Cisco gives accounts with CCIEs on staff a percentage discount on support contracts? They also get an escallated queue for any support calls. The logic behind that is that a CCIE would not call on something trival and would have triaged the problem. Is this something for this group?
Or do we need t-shirts? Mugs? A special room (rubber padded, drool absorbant carpet) reserved for us at the 2009 Users Conference?
What would you like?
So, feel free to respond. I will post this on the LinedIn group as well as my blog (appologies to those who have to read it twice!).
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For those interested in joining, go to LinkedIn and search for the MySQL Certified Professionals Group.
4 comments:
I for one, would be happy to be a guinea pig, and of course coffee mugs are always good!
I would be glad to help out.
discount on support contracts is nice. Maybe short-term subscriptions to binary downloads like the enterprise monitor and query analyzer, so Certified Professionals can test them?
I'll be a tester if you like. In terms of things for the group: I'm a big fan of coffee mugs and shirts. But on a more important note, I think we need more coverage for the group - more getting the name out there. Ideally, it would be a place that companies seeking MySQL certified DBAs would automatically know to come to for services. I guess you could say we need a more marketed image (although I'm not much of a fan of typical marketing).
-themattreid
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