S60 Open to new features

I just listened to the interview of Debi Jones (a.k.a. Mobile Jones) at Voice of S60. Insightful stuff.

About S60 blogs, and Nokia blogging in general, Debi gave us plenty of good advice:

"In terms of looking at S60 blogs and how they are uniquely positioned to offer content to the rest of us, is taking an insider view"

"In watching for example what Robert Scoble did: he was a guy who was evangelizing some things that were coming out from Microsoft, but also, pulling the audience in and making them feel like they understood what it meant to be at Microsoft. He introduced to us a lot of people who were working there, and talked about the kinds of projects they were doing, and then also Microsoft went a step further, in terms of making their blogging capability available to just almost everybody in the company."

Yep. I can evangelize about the applications my unit is developing, Jukka/Oren about S60 Multimedia applications, Ari about Nokia's Linux development, and HeGe about WidSets. But I guess we still have some gaps in our blogging coverage... However, I don't think we need everybody in Nokia to start writing blogs. I guess 1% (=500 people) will do just fine. Bonus link: What is the 1% rule?

About the "what it means to work for Nokia" part, I'm afraid we are not there yet. Phil is doing great work with Voice of S60, but we don't have much more than that. However, I guess there is demand, since many people have asked me via email about how I like working for Nokia, and how they could possibly apply for jobs here. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to help them much - in most cases I've just redirected them to http://www.nokia.com/careers. I wonder how I could do more.

"I know that the recruiting blogs were extremely popular. Or I should say, are extremely popular. Because the recruiters would actually give you some information like what is it like to interview at Microsoft, what are the qualities of people that we would like to have as employees, what is important to Microsoft. And so, it kind of demystified a lot of things about the company, definitely put a more human face on the company, so that you felt like it's not the big monolithic thing behind the curtain that only the people inside understand."

Couldn't agree more. In fact, I pitched this "recruiting blog" idea to some Nokia HR people six months ago, and they seemed to like it. I'll ask them again...