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Welcome to the 1st anniversary issue of the CCIE Flyer!
I started looking back over CCIE Flyer back issues. The first three CCIE Flyers were simple monthly emails to a few hundred network engineers in my network simply trying to keep them posted on my activities. I even found an email response from Scott Morris from way back in May 2008 asking about the CCIE Agent concept. This was followed up with our getting together in August at Networkers and that crazy night at the wing house with the IPExpert crew. I was kind of nervous as I went through the statistics of a year’s worth of contributions to figure out what was read the most and could potentially be considered favorites. I wanted to share with you the best of from my contributors and as I reread the articles I was reacquainted with some very good material. I learned that the stuff I write myself does get read most frequently which is something I am very grateful for. I was amazed and felt I was cheating the system if I counted my numbers so I eliminated myself from the counting and dug into the page reads for the rest of the contributors. The favorite issue was September 2008 which was a theme issue on Learning. It featured Scott, Vik, Faisal, Mark, my brother in-law Dr. Demming, Dr. Sanaa, and the publishing of the CCIE Salary Survey results. I was slashdotted by Keith Tokash which accompanied his Ubuntum article! (What an experience that was.) So his posting was way over the top on the numbers. Terry Slattery is a consistent first place regular contributor. Vik Mahli was a consistent read with his pieces being sought out long after the new issues hit the stands. Darasingh Tomer in October keeps getting regular reading and my friend Oleg Berzin was the most responded to technical contributor. His scientific approach to networking and unified communications has given the CCIE Flyer some very good content. My muse Eve the Career Diva was one of the best overall accumulated reads. Her monthly bits and advice were well read. Faisal Khan gave the CCIE Flyer and IT World some great traffic with his Geek Big Brother House style of teaching in India. Nickelby Thane, Jeff Bloch, John Lewis, Bradley Morris, Dave Evans and Mark McClure rounded out the best traffic for the CCIE Flyer. Coming up fast for 2009 is Darby Weaver though. His epic battle on the ether is still getting a lot of reads so he may very well eclipse the rest shortly. The Geek History I am compiling is fun and though it may seem banal and immature I say screw it I am going to keep putting it out there! Heck it makes me chuckle while I do it and that makes my wife think I am crazy and that is a good thing. I enjoy playing with the CCIE Flyer monthly with Dan (my big brother) and it keeps him out of traffic so he is in for the long haul. My teaming up with Narbik has been a good thing for the CCIE Flyer as well and he continues to out travel me too. For this 1st anniversary issue we are pulling together the bits and bytes you all seemed to have enjoyed the most. There are far more readers now than I had when many of these pieces first aired so it will be new to some and old to others. If nothing else it buys me time to scratch together something for June! Thanks for reading the CCIE Flyer! Eman Travel Log Star Date 62826.2 When I travel I travel like a child. I find that eyes and ears open to the journey and the destinations is the best way to accept where you are and the local culture. Yes it is best to throw off the trappings of your home and personal environment so that the new one can be appreciated. Take me to this article...
Eman and Narbik joined forces in an original industry initiative; Narbik has written the book, quite literally, on CCIE R&S training and traveled the world to prepare his students for the CCIE lab. His students are taught how to learn what they need to know and the skills necessary to succeed as a CCIE after the lab, not just trained to pass a test. Narbik has left an indelible mark on the industry. In fact, there is probably no CCIE trainer that has received more praise on the web than Narbik. Seating is limited so act now. Contact us for details promotions@ccieflyer.com Career Diva Job loss can make you physically sick.
Let’s say you lost your insurance, gym membership, sick days and the reason you got up every morning. Brooke Ellingworth Interview Brooke has a unique position in her work supporting the various Cisco forums around the world. We find ourselves gawking at some of the same marvelous sites and recounting some of the same stories. Yet there is serious work going on with her. So I wanted to take the time to introduce her and to ask her a few questions for the CCIE Flyer. Take me to this article... Terry Slattery The origin of Netcordia's name There's really no great story for the Netcordia name. My prior company was Chesapeake Computer Consultants, Inc.* That's a mouthful. We eventually used 'Chesapeake' as the name (changing from CCCI). I decided that any subsequent company would have a nice, short name that could be easily spelled. Take me to this article... by Nivon de Carvalho e Silva Junior Are you going to Cisco-Live this year? I am.
In my opinion this event is as much as an investment in your career as a Certification exam. Caue Wailemann Prepared for everything It´s always a good idea to be prepared for everything, I mean, analyse the situation, try to anticipate what could happen, how it´ll affect me, and the best part, minimize the impact of it with a good action plan, carefuly created, considering different scenarios and possibilities! Take me to this article... In his own words Vikram from India It was my pleasure to speak with you today. I know it is not easy to pass the CCIE Lab and your experience so recently doing so is an accomplishment worthy of praise. Take me to this article... Eman Dan as Frankenstein’s Monster Like Dr. Frankenstein and Igor we want to rebuild another human being (sorry Narbik but you’re Igor). I will stick him into Igor’s I mean Narbik’s R&S CCIE Bootcamp and see how he does on the written! Then if he passes I will send him to the lab. Yes without even going to the CCNA and CCNP courses, heck he’s old and might expire if we take too long! Take me to this story... Eman A history of How Geeks Changed the World The Dawn and demise of Grecogeeks. Take me to this story... |
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Just about when I was getting writer’s block, what timing. I called Dan (my big brother) and tried to share with him my anxiety over being stressed since coming back from London and Athens. The result was I had nothing, zilch, nada and then he reminded me that we had a year’s worth of material and our 1st anniversary is June! So for the month of May we are building up the best of issue to celebrate by taking a break! What a long strange trip it has been too. 
