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Eric S. Perkins

Driven professional with fresh, relevant concepts on enterprise computing.

My goals are simple. To apply my concepts, determination, and leadership to the betterment of those around me.

True thought leadership involving forward looking technology trends enabling me to properly position enterprises to succeed with technology.

Throughout my career I have led my peers in troubleshooting instinct in technical situations, business situations and the ability to quickly ramp up on new trends and leverage them successfully.

My Business Acumen includes M&A, 6+ yrs of running a very profitable corporation. Highly skilled at developing strategic partnerships with clients, vendors, and competitors.

Personal:

Father of three, with a beautiful wife and a passion for anything that goes fast.

So this week someone I follow on Twitter posts a seemingly harmless link to a blog that completely sucks. While I understand it is written from a users point of view (odd for an IT company) It does not make any business sense, and is written poorly.

If it is still up when you read this the link is here: http://www.johnbrianfastcpa.com/1115/the-death-of-the-desktop So after some weird Jedi mind trick from @Michael_Keen I write the guy a couple comments as to why his post should be reconsidered.

Later in the day another Tweep @SimonBramfitt (Nice Job FYI) mentions this crappy article is a cut and paste from Forbes! So I read the Forbes article and the guy that stole this article only stole parts of it and pasted it together in a way that made no logical sense. The Forbes article was pretty decent! So I posted another comment and told him he should not do this, of course my comments are deleted. (I put a new one up today). Here is the original Forbes article which is decent: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/1228/technology-virtualization-vmware-wyse.html

Side note: here are the rest of this guys articles incase you want to figure out where he stole these from...http://www.johnbrianfastcpa.com/author/johnbrianfastcpa/
 

The problem is I see this everyday and it's becoming more frequent and on new platforms. Let me use someone that is considered a thought leader in our space as an example. @BrianMadden often posts something I have just seen on twitter minutes before his tweet. But rarely does he give the original person credit by using the common RT initials or the new RT method. He makes it look like Brian Madden is announcing something.

I also know that Brianmadden.com has been the victim of tons of article theft over the years, and it's just not acceptable. People that come up with unique thoughts need to be given credit (and as a credit to Brian mentioned above he has come up with plenty over the years) but if you're not a thought leader that is cool, too just give credit to those that have come up with good unique thoughts!

So in closing my quick rant with information coming at us all as quickly as it is today, I think we need to slow down just a little a consider giving credit where credit is due, that's all! Many of us are constantly thinking and we should do some basic searches to ensure our idea is unique as it is becoming a small world after all.....

Eric S. Perkins
http://chimerically.com

Comments

Nicely said Eric! In fact one of the things I like about this site is when you link an article the link actually goes straight to the original article and not a small blurb and then a link or even a total rip-off of the original!!!

Social mediums like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn encourage it because people use these mediums to generate traffic to advertising. When your site links an original post it goes to the original site, not some holding page with a load of ads.

Please don't change this...

Well said. @jariangibson

Tell me about it, I am still angry that Al Gore got all the credit for inventing the Internet when it was all my idea in the first place!

...Kidding of course.....well put Eric!

Jesse Korn

Wait Al Gore did not invent the internet?

Well at least the CPA gave credit to Forbes for the article content he stole. baby steps....

Eric

@SimonBramfitt here. So glad I can claim to be a small part of the inspiration behind of a very interesting post. And it was nothing more than coincidence I just happened to have the Forbes article open in front of me at the right time.

I read your post this evening just after putting down Charles Drawin's 'On the the origin of species'. Darwin rushed to publish when he did only because he was in a race with an associate to get what was essentially the same idea into print. So the rush to get into print is nothing new. Of course his rush to print still allowed him to knock out one of the most important works ever written. We now fight to be first to Tweet some ephemera that will be forgotten long before tomorrow is out. Progress isn't always progress is it?

I do occasionally find I have reached the same conclusion as someone else only to have done so weeks, days or even in some cases only minutes later, and when I do consider that cause for celebration rather than defeat. Sometimes I'll publish anyway (with a link to the other author), sometimes I'll rewrite to offer an additional perspective, sometimes if I can't add value I'll just comment a lame "Agreed..." and rip up what for me is often several hours of work.

And I will freely admin to plagiarism, but I try to only steal my own work. :)

Merry Christmas

@SimonBramfitt

Well said Simon. I think the problem is magnified with information coming at as quickly as it is. I do feel if you consider yourself a leader in the space and complain when others steal your content you are obligated to use the tools our communication platforms have provided i.e. RT on Twitter to try and give credit and not rephrase as if you are making the announcement. I guess this goes back to when kids would try and type "1st" in a comment on a youtube video but it's worse because your credibility is looked down upon in this case.

So the accountant/"IT Company" we started talking about, has corrected his article and allowed me to post some comments. Hopefully the same will happen with leaders in our space trying to RT more, especially when the comment is phrased as if they are announcing something special.... and the same tweet was posted 2 minutes before!

As our communication becomes more rapid we need to be more careful with this!


Merry Christmas!

Eric Perkins
http://chimerically.com

NOTE: As usual all typo's and other errors in my comment before 8am are not subject to scrutiny as I have not had enough coffee yet...

Nice one Eric - brilliant post - additionally it becomes very boring to read and then re-read the same stuff on various differing blogs/boards.
Give credit where credit is due - validate the point if you agree, try to bring something new to the table, then move on.


,TT

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