{"id":2501,"date":"2013-01-15T07:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/?p=2501"},"modified":"2013-01-15T07:11:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T13:11:14","slug":"emc-elect-2013-a-tremendous-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/emc-elect-2013-a-tremendous-thank-you\/","title":{"rendered":"EMC Elect 2013 &#8211; A Tremendous Thank You!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=2507\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2507\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2507\" alt=\"EMC Elect 2013\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/EMCElect2013.jpg\" width=\"117\" height=\"117\" \/><\/a>A while back there was a <a title=\"EMC Elect 2013\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23EMCElect&amp;src=hash\"><strong>buzz on Twitter<\/strong><\/a> about the <a title=\"EMC Elect\" href=\"https:\/\/community.emc.com\/community\/connect\/emc_elect\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>EMC Elect<\/strong><\/a> program.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t know what it was, so I reached out to <a title=\"Matthew Brender\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mjbrender\/\"><strong>Matthew Brender<\/strong><\/a> to find out more.<\/p>\n<p>If you are familiar with the <a title=\"VMware vExpert\" href=\"http:\/\/communities.vmware.com\/vexpert.jspa\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>VMware vExpert<\/strong><\/a> program, <a title=\"EMC Elect\" href=\"https:\/\/community.emc.com\/community\/connect\/emc_elect\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>EMC Elect<\/strong><\/a> is a very similar program.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to keep this post short, as I&#8217;m sitting here in the Delta Sky Club in Terminal D, and quite frankly don&#8217;t know what to say.<\/p>\n<p>I received an email with some pretty exciting news (to me at least). I have been selected as an EMC Elect Inaugural Member for 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently I made some type of impact with contributions on <a title=\"Jase McCarty on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jasemccarty\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/a>, the EMC Community Network, and through my <strong><a title=\"Isilon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/?tag=isilon\">Isilon<\/a><\/strong> blog posts.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to thank all of those that recommended me, and for Matt Brender&#8217;s email welcoming me to this group.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Jase, for your incredible leadership around Isilon evangelism and just pure, humble dedication to the greater community, I&#8217;m thrilled to send you this email.&#8221; &#8211; Matthew Brender<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am truly honored to have been selected as an inaugural member of EMC Elect for 2013.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I need to get back to Twitter\/ECN\/Blogging, so I can keep it up for next year&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Look for some more Isilon posts in the coming weeks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks again!<br \/>\nJase<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back there was a buzz on Twitter about the EMC Elect program.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t know what it was, so I reached out to &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[35,134,47],"class_list":["post-2501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storage-2","tag-emc","tag-emc-elect","tag-isilon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2501"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2510,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions\/2510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}