{"id":2236,"date":"2011-04-15T12:39:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T19:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Going-quot-Social-quot-at-the-Congress-On-the-Future-of\/ba-p\/334635"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:17:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:17:30","slug":"going-social-at-the-congress-on-the-future-of-engineering-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/going-social-at-the-congress-on-the-future-of-engineering-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Going &#8220;Social&#8221; at the Congress On the Future of Engineering Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><\/P><DIV style=\"background-color: #F9F9F9;border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;padding: 3px;font: 11px\/1.4em Arial, sans-serif;margin: 0.5em 0pt 0.5em 0.8em;width:389px;\"><A href=\"http:\/\/www.deelip.com\/?p=5839\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><IMG class=\"size-full wp-image-5335\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2011\/04\/ScreenHunter_01-Apr.-15-09.14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"389\" height=\"277\" \/><\/A><DIV style=\"text-align:center;\">Picture courtesy of Deelip Mendes. Click to go to his post.<\/DIV> <\/DIV><BR \/><BR \/>As you may see from my Tweets, I\u2019m at the \u201cCongress On the Future of Engineering Software\u201d this week.&nbsp; You pretty much can\u2019t talk about the future of anything these days without mentioning going \u201csocial\u201d.<!--more--><BR \/><BR \/>Of course, this week, I\u2019m going social in the traditional way, by actually meeting people. Normally, this would be kind of an intimidating situation as COFES has a large number o<A title=\"COFES thought leaders\" href=\"http:\/\/cofes.com\/Events\/COFES2010\/KeyParticipants\/tabid\/519\/Default.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">f industry thought leaders<\/A> that I have never met in person. Say something stupid, and you can easily picture the journalists and analysts pulling out their note pads and taking nodes.<BR \/><BR \/>In reality, it has been a very positive experience for two reasons.&nbsp; Firstly, COFES does a great job hooking people up.&nbsp; Secondly, so many of these people are involved in social media it is like I know \u00bd of them already. You have got to love when guys like <A title=\"Deelip's blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deelip.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Deelip Meneze<\/A> comes up and hugs you and <A title=\"Al Dean's Magazine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.develop3d.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Al Dean<\/A> brings you drinks (and <A title=\"Getting some help from Al Dean\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/burhop\/statuses\/58670627728535552\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">takes you to the right place when you are lost<\/A>).<BR \/><BR \/>As&nbsp; many of you know, I\u2019m also working on doing some new things with our Solid Edge Technology Partner program and that is the real reason I\u2019m here (supported by customers like <A title=\"Scott's blog\" href=\"http:\/\/wertel.blogspot.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Scott Wertel&#8217;s<\/A> recommendation to <A title=\"Karsten Newbury on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/newbk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Karsten Newbury<\/A> that I needed to be here).&nbsp;&nbsp; I don\u2019t know if all the (potential) partners I\u2019ve talked to want me to mention them but I do hope to do some posts on those that do.&nbsp; Many of them have some really interesting new technologies that could be a big benefit to our Solid Edge customers.<BR \/><BR \/>So stay tuned\u2026 we will see what positive relationships come out of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture courtesy of Deelip Mendes. Click to go to his post.       As you may see from my Tweets, I\u2019m at the \u201cCongress On the Future of Engineering Software\u201d this week.&nbsp; You pretty much can\u2019t tal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54987,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54987"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2237,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions\/2237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}