Building a Tech Community: The Windows Insider Program with Dona Sarkar

FULL SHOW NOTEShttps://podcast.nz365guy.com/106Personal 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 ResourcesWindows 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/Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoptionSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith