Trevor Rotzien

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"I'd definitely like to participate in a session covering what you describe. Sounds both interesting and practical."

"Thinking we could base the Product Manager responsibilities, that are to be redistributed, on the Pragmatic Marketing model, or something similar. Then one giant Post-It for each target role the responsibilities might go to? Would be good to support the debate with some kind of visual. (Added this session proposal to the Wiki)"

"New Process: This won't be a lecture or a simple panel or round-table! New Title: Be More Effective by Embracing Tribal Differences (non-Godinian Tribes, BTW) I worked out the session format last night: it will be fully participatory: group exercises (with very huge post-it notes!) designed to walk us through and really grok the three main takeaways: 1. People within a professional role can use..."

"I think what might get the most traction is a ethno topic that few have been exposed to, but not too intimidating for the uninitiated."

"Dave, Paula who originally proposed this session can't attend. We'd welcome a ethnography session. Up for facilitating it?"

"One factor is the way Microsoft defines the roles. Product Managers at MS are more like Product Marketing Managers (in AIPMM speak), and Program Managers at MS carry many of the responsibilities I'd expect Product Managers to carry. I'm speculating, but maybe it's as simple as perception/ name recognition: MS "Program Managers" don't necessary identify with an event that markets itse..."

"Mehmet, I think your question is too technical and too specific for this group. We are here mainly to discuss Product Management issues (and the ProductCamp Seattle event) rather than technical issues around one particular website. If you search the Web, you will be able to find discussions on PHP, etc. Good luck."

"Tony, I think it depends on the venue. A recent study of Twitter showed that it was male dominated. Blowhards like me, mainly :-) To make sense of the gender question, we may need to take a look at each major social network individually."

"Barbara - I also proposed an overlapping session. I'm wondering if the format you're planning would accommodate some collaboration? I mainly want to convey the importance of managing your social media presence not only as a job seeker, but all the time, working or not, and how one can build and nurture a social media reputation over time (and it's never too late to start)."

"The hypothesis will involve massive generalizations, so I'd have to say any size and all sizes :-)"

"Please note that while Conversations is the best area on this event site to discuss session proposals, they aren't considered "officially" submitted until they are entered into the Wiki area. If you're registered, you should be able to edit the Wiki directly, and there are plenty of example proposed sessions there already to guide you in regards to format. Please be gentle though! A..."

"In this session, we will play devil’s advocate, and assert the hypothesis that anything a Product Manager can do can just as easily be done by other roles, given an appropriate allocation of responsibilities. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to provide well-reasoned arguments for, or against, the hypothesis. Let (civil) debate unfurl its wisdom! This could be a challenge and a lot o..."

"William, no problem, you have a great photo... corporate portraits not required (or necessarily the best for social networking)"

"leslie, your points are well taken. I'm fascinated by how important the things we don't document and can't measure easily have so much influence on project outcomes, and therefore product success."

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"Is effective product management for a micro-business in the developing world different than for large corporations? What adjustments to our familiar product and marketing toolkits must be made? I've had some inquiries from several people in the international development and non-profit spaces asking about product management and how it could help them in their efforts to accelerate economic deve..."

"Awesome! This could be a great learning experience and potentially hilarious! And at 3 minuets each, there could be fabulous variety."

"I found "Presentation Zen" illuminating. Anything to prevent PowerPoint coma. It would be a blast to demo after sharing principles: present the exact same message twice, once conventionally (ineffectively) and then your way. That would really illustrative."

"I'm in! Getting to a useful, mostly shared conceptual model is the most powerful risk management technique there is, in my opinion. All kinds of unpleasantness stems from semantic discord between stakeholder models."

"I haven't been to Burning Man, but I would love to hear this discussion!"

"I welcome additional feedback, but in the meantime, I'll write this topic up in the Wiki as a serious proposal. We can always tweak it more later."

"ProductCamp is fundamentally a social activity, and this community site and the event itself incude a number of features to support social interaction. Your profile on this event site will drive the appearance of your badge (name tag) at the event. The color-coding is driven by the choice you make in your profile for the "Category" field. If you do not make a choice, you get a boring..."

"I'd love to participate in this session... especially in regards to how to apply the principles in practice (with the usual small budget!)"

"Also interested in ROI, what tools can reasonably be applied, how quantitative does an answer have to be before it's compelling to senior management?"

"Complementary to Jim's suggestion, I'd also be interested in identifying/discussing the so-called "soft" skills that differentiates successful PM's, if we can show that they do - I certainly expect that they do..."

"There are many, mostly separate, discussions on: - How to market products & services in social media - Personal branding - Networking / job hunting I'm wondering if there is a way to combine these topics into a set of best practices for product managers who want to represent themselves effectively in social media, so that challenges in overall reputation, which effects their ability to mar..."

"It would attempt to apply general principles to product management in particular, but hopefully be clearly useful to other roles especially any role that has to lead by persuasion some of the time - and I'd argue that all roles become more effective if they adopt some approaches that are mandatory for product managers, such as leading by persuasion. (I've got aversion in my head that would app..."

"I'm curious if anyone would be interested in this or a variant of this topic: In the workplace, can't we all just get along? No we can't, and there are perfectly good reasons why that is. Ever find people in other job roles mystifying, inscrutable, or maddening? Do they "not get" what you and the people like you do for a living? Is the "us" versus "them" thing g..."

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"To maximize the social networking effectiveness of your attendee profile (and by extension the site and event), some tips: Profile photo: - Upload a photo of yourself. A ProductCamp is no place to hide! This will help people recognize you at the event if they first meet you online, and a photo avatar is a significant psychological factor in establishing trust with others. - Note that when you ..."