ViewYonder.com went off the air for a short period of time yesterday due to comments made about a Gartner report. Gartner apparently pushed Cisco to have Steve Chambers pull a posting that he made about a report by one of the analysts. You can read his report via various caching engines and there is a couple of good websites that have re-posted the post basically word for word.
I don’t normally agree with Steve’s viewpoints or his ideas or his general tone. The right for him to post his thoughts is important as getting bullied affects all of us. We as bloggers and independent thinkers do have a right to talk about things that are not company confidential or business sensitive information. There is quite an outpouring of support from the Web & Twitter for Stevie.
Thankfully Cisco’s very supportive Social Media policy did come into play here and since Steve only mostly insulted the intelligence of the Gartner analyst, a fairly easy target, he has come back online. His managers and other’s in Cisco’s corporate office have been supportive. Thankfully Cisco does have some good people there.
So Steve, When are you putting that post back up?
Thanks, Ian. I think what people forget is that the ViewYonder blog is not representative of my complete thoughts and actions: it is, instead, a great way to engage people in discussion about topics I find interesting.
That means sometimes a post is not 100% what I believe in and instead is a way to engage people. I’ve done this with HP guys, Scott Lowe, etc.
I’m actually a big fan of many HP staff, and a really big fan of Scott, so when I’m tweaking their nipplets it’s really a playful tweak in the hope they tweak me back and we all have a good laugh about it.
You’re right about one thing, though: Cisco have been very good here and I’m glad I work for them. I’m not sure other organisations would have been so supportive.
Take care, mate
Steve