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IdoNotes Episode 30 - I interview Kathy Mandelstein on the new developerWorks community spaces announcement


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Right from the press release comes the interview with Kathy Mandelstein, Director, Worldwide Developer Programs, IBM.  She and I talk for about 17 minutes on the new community spaces and then all things developerWorks and Alphaworks.  I could not let that chance slip by!  There is a new area on Alphaworks wrapped around web services that you need to see!

  • http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/
I also inquire if Sametime awareness will show up someday soon and how all these pieces will integrate together.

Kathy Mandelstein currently manages the worldwide teams responsible for
engaging and communicating to development teams for IBM. The teams support
a community of innovative e-business portals including www.ibm.com
/developerWorks, IBM's resource for developers; www.ibm.com/alphaWorks,
which speeds IBM technology to market and attracts developers' feedback to
IBM's new product development process; and PartnerWorld for Developers,
www.ibm.com,/partnerworld/isv, IBM's Partner program for commercial
software developers interested in building applications that support IBM
technologies.

Kathy and her cross-functional teams consist of marketers, producers,
writers, technical evanglists, and business people reaching out to
developers in cities around the globe. Prior to her current assignment,
Kathy managed Web Development and Marketing teams in IBM Software Group.
She has focused on the developer audience for the last eight years and
began at IBM by leading the Java and e-business campaigns for this
audience. Before joining IBM in 1997, Kathy managed one of the earliest
successful retail Web sites, www.jcpenney.com. Kathy has over 20 years of
professional experience in the areas of advertising, marketing, corporate
communications, sales, management and web development.