Melanie Baker
Melanie is a KW native who has worked in areas ranging from Marketing to Web to SQA at local tech and financial firms. Currently she is the Community Manager for AideRSS.
She is an inveterate blogger, voracious reader, adventurous baker (small b!), and counts communications, usability, and user experience among her professional passions.
Stories
Three degrees of separation - Waterloo edition [Feb 28 2008]
The Hybrid Tech Worker: Must Have or Best Avoided? [May 15 2008]
PROFILE: AideRSS [Jul 11 2008]
From video to vide(own) A profile of Overlay.tv [Oct 24 2008]
Comments on above stories
Comments
"Actually, Mr. Borsato, that very point is something I've been mulling over, and plan to write about soon. In good part because my background is the same—pretty much every job I've had, and every job I've been asked to do, has required hybrid sk…" [Mar 13 2008 18:58]
"I would have liked to have attributions as well, but in this case it was a matter of folks being willing to say things with that offer of “protection” that they'd never have commented on otherwise. Those folks are part of the community I …" [Mar 15 2008 12:03]
"It ain't the techies you gotta worry about so much ‘round here, it's the Mennonites… Lucky for me, I'm both. ;)
And that's exactly why the piece was posted as a blog post. We weren't going for some big exposé, and there may well be fol…" [Mar 15 2008 17:25]
"Sherry McMenemy. We met at Descartes, and I consider joining her team the pivotal moment in my career development, as it sparked my professional passions in communications, usability, and user experience.
She has the highest standards of any manage…" [Mar 15 2008 18:29]
"@Whatsizface – Thanks for the link to the Tom Peters article. I love the resilience idea. And SO true. Definitely something anyone with a tech background (especially involving the dot-com, startups, etc.) can relate to.
Same with the sources …" [May 26 2008 16:26]
"I think you nailed it with the inclusion of communications in your comment, Derek. After all, you can possess all the skills in the world, but your ability to effectively deploy them and work with all the disparate groups and personalities you need t…" [Jun 09 2008 08:30]
"Back in my early corporate career, an SVP of mine summed it up in the phrase “coin operated”. To this day I haven't heard a better overall explanation to explain sales folks (especially in tech) and how to work with/motivate them. :)…" [Jul 16 2008 11:19]
