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Building a Tech Community: The Windows Insider Program with Dona Sarkar
Episode 106
Published 6 years, 9 months ago
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https://podcast.nz365guy.com/106
- Personal and professional background – growing up in Detroit, taking up computer science, working at Siebel, etc.
- Upcoming speaking engagement at a conference on digital inclusion
- Journey to working with Microsoft
- Career highlights in the past 14 years
- Being a woman in tech: changes she has seen, her thoughts on the topic
- How she encourages open-mindedness when people don’t come from a highly diverse background in a corporate team
- About #DotheThing – what it is, her principle
- Thoughts on encouraging students about the future possibility of careers that don’t even exist
- The meaning behind #NinjaCat
- Releasing code to the Insider Fast ring – wanting to have in cocreating product and making a better world using technology. Is it starting to flow over into other technology areas inside Microsoft?
- Building a 16.5-million-people community – keeping the communications and the engagement level up; how they maintain the momentum year in and year out
- Dona’s Ten Commandments for Community
- Thoughts on the future of the Windows Insider Program
- Advice to teams wanting to kick off a program from 0 and build a tech community
Books Mentioned
- #DotheThing by Dona Sarkar – https://amzn.to/2J5DBhb
Resources
- Windows Insider Program – https://insider.windows.com/en-us/
- Ghana Digital Roadmap Conference – https://microsoftcaregh.com/2019/05/16/ghana-digital-roadmap-conference-microsoft-windows-insider-chief-dona-sarkar-shares-simple-yet-often-overlooked-insights-on-digital-inclusion/
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