I try to keep my blog for my thoughts, both about what I
do and what I think in the Oracle space (I have a private blog for random
things), I keep Facebook for fun, my criteria for friends being those I would
have in my home, and twitter I TRY to keep for business comments.
But the Oracle world is a community and you can't separate clearly the different parts, I have so many friends around the world I have met or travelled with and they are just like Family.
So social media doesn't always work out the way I intend especially when tagged
by friends on twitter who have different use cases. I don't mind normally but
it does sometimes confuse people, especially in reference to my Oracle family.
To recap, last year Tim Hall aka oracle-base decided to call Graham Wood of the Real World Performance team, his dad. Lots of fun around this concept.
Then in April of this year whilst on the Norwegian usergroup conference cruise, Tim and I made our way to the restaurant for dinner, we were
early and the only person in there was the captain. So unless we wanted to get
married there was nothing for us at this time, so we thought 'why not'. Most importantly we
didn't really or legally tie the knot but Tim blogged we had married, and Tim's blog has thousands of readers.
The following month I went to Collaborate and sat next to
Graham at the ACE dinner. I tweeted a photo of us saying 'having dinner with
the new father in law' and also posted it to Facebook. Interestingly real
relatives were getting in touch to see if I had something to tell them.
Tim loves a windup and quickly started to mention it
frequently and to be honest I quite liked the fun. Heli from Finland who wanted to be included so we decided to adopt her.
Our family was complete:
My Oracle
Daughter - MOD - Heli Helskyaho
In Bulgaria three of us (no dad) were reunited and it was great to all be together again.
Tim keeps the story alive and planning started for a
family dinner and official photograph for OOW and it happened on the Wednesday
before.
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| Me, Tim, Heli and Graham |
During the ACE Director briefings Tim kept tweeting about
it (remember I want twitter to be professional) so when he started his series
of interviews with.... Blogs, I with the help of Michelle Malcher returned the favour.
Love the Craic (as they say in N Ireland) but need to add
that when introducing my real daughter to Doug Burns he asked if she was real or
part of my Oracle family.
4 comments:
I think the OOW family needs a nephew, Debra..
Debra - I think the Oracle family needs a Nephew.
After the challenge of Heli :) we have decided to stick to a single child
Well stated, Debra. As you know, I feel the same way about my Oracle friends. The camaraderie is like no other.
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