{"id":1154,"date":"2008-12-22T09:44:20","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T08:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2008-12-23T07:29:49","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T06:29:49","slug":"053-matt-dunstan-on-event-management-engagement-and-life-as-an-application-plaform-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=1154","title":{"rendered":"053 &#8211; Matt Dunstan on event management, &#8220;engagement&#8221; and life as an Application Platform Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eleventh in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=1007\">Twelve Podcasts of Christmas 2008<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Matt.jpg\"  \/><br \/>\n<em>Hero of the day, March 19th 2008<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/heroes.gif\" style=\"border: none;\" alt=\"Heroes Happen Here\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>In March 2008, Microsoft&#8217;s &#8220;2008&#8221; wave of product launches took place in Birmingham.  It was a great opportunity to grab some podcasts with Microsoft Executives and many of their DPEs.  In this podcast, co-hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewwestgarth.co.uk\/\">Andy Westgarth<\/a>, we&#8217;re chatting to Microsoft Application Platform Manager and HHH event hero, Matt Dunstan. <\/p>\n<p>Photos of the event can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/craigmurphy\/sets\/72157604415866743\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/podcasts\/RSSPodCasts.xml\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/images\/podcast_rssfeed.gif\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/podcasts\/RSSPodcasts.xml\">Podcast feed &#8211; subscribe here!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/podcasts\/053-Matt-Dunstan.mp3\">http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/podcasts\/053-Matt-Dunstan.mp3<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/podcasts\/053-Matt-Dunstan.mp3\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/images\/podcast_listen.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Resources<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/sqlinsiders\/\">SQL: What the Product Managers are Thinking<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Twelve Podcasts of Christmas 2008<\/strong><br \/>\n01 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=1000\">Kyle Baley on ALT.NET and Brownfield Development in .NET<\/a><br \/>\n02 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=1018\">Aaron Parker on Microsoft Application Virtualisation<\/a><br \/>\n03 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=1025\">Caroline Bucklow from IT4Communities: charitable software development<\/a><br \/>\n04 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=1037\">Eileen Brown on IT Professionals, TechNet, Women In Technology &#038; Girl Geek Dinners<\/a><br \/>\n05 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=1067\">Stephen Lamb on security, community, Linux and Twitter<\/a><br \/>\n06 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=1089\">Cristiano Betta on Geek Dinners<\/a><br \/>\n07 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=1101\">David Yack and Jonathan Carter on ALT.NET, MVC and Community<\/a><br \/>\n08 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=1132\">Andrew Fryer on SQL Server 2008 and \u201cupgrade\u201d<\/a><br \/>\n09 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=1139\">Viral Tarpara on Collaboration, SharePoint, Open Source (Port 25) and Community<\/a><br \/>\n10 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=1152\">Guy Smith Ferrier on Internationali[s|z]ation, VS2008, .net 3.5, C# language features<\/a><br \/>\n11 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=1154\">Matt Dunstan on event management, \u201cengagement\u201d and life as an Application Platform Manager<\/a><br \/>\n12 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=1157\">Stephen Lamb on his new role in marketing \/ PR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Matt+Dunstan\" rel=\"tag\">Matt Dunstan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/SQL\" rel=\"tag\">SQL<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Application+Platform+Manager\" rel=\"tag\">Application Platform Manager<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/blogging\" rel=\"tag\">blogging<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/engagement\" rel=\"tag\">engagement<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/SQL+Insiders\" rel=\"tag\">SQL Insiders<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleventh in the Twelve Podcasts of Christmas 2008! Hero of the day, March 19th 2008 In March 2008, Microsoft&#8217;s &#8220;2008&#8221; wave of product launches took place in Birmingham. It was a great opportunity to grab some podcasts with Microsoft Executives and many of their DPEs. In this podcast, co-hosted by Andy Westgarth, we&#8217;re chatting to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=1154\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">053 &#8211; Matt Dunstan on event management, &#8220;engagement&#8221; and life as an Application Platform Manager<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[339,340,341,337,338,342],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-application-platform-manager","tag-blogging","tag-engagement","tag-matt-dunstan","tag-sql","tag-sql-insiders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1217,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions\/1217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}