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Greetings from Conversations’ new Editor-in-Chief!

By Phil on 04 August 2009

GLOBAL – Anyone who’s started on a new blog knows how difficult the first post is. It’s as if your years of writing expertise have regressed back to kindergarten, with a red crayon in hand, and warm, wet feeling in your bottom. (yes, I was a “late bloomer”)

First off – A big round of applause for Mr. Charlie Schick. As Editor-in-Chief of Nokia Conversations over the past two years, he’s done a phenomenal job bringing such high standards of content to such a vibrant online community. Together with JBC, Mike, Carita and the rest of the Conversations team, Charlie has created an engaging online space that delivers the same passion as Nokia’s biggest fans.

A bit about myself – I recently turned 30. I moved from the states (Baltimore to be exact) to Espoo, Finland in 2002 to work for Nokia (a lie, I came here because of a woman), first in the Nokia.com team and later to the S60 Digital Marketing team where I built and ran the S60 Blogs, authored the See Into S60 blog, hosted the Voice of S60 podcast, and had crazy fun meeting the S60 community at such events as An Evening with S60. (Darla!! Lately you’ve found me launching some wild online marketing campaigns for Nokia’s services, such as “Open at Own Risk”, “WidSets Pets” and “Dance Fabulous Challenge”.

Outside of the office you can find me on the tennis court, playing board games with friends, or walking through the Finnish forests with my 7-year old Shetland Sheepdog, Oggie. (another lie, I’m reading blogs, posting on Twitter, and fiddling with my latest phone) You can even find me performing a little stand-up comedy around Helsinki. </shameless plug>

It’s a sincere honor and pleasure to be heading up Nokia’s official blog, as I’m truly humbled that you’d take time out of your busy schedules to join us in these exciting conversations. I have some new ideas for this space and I look forward to sharing them – but first I’d like to hear from you! How have you enjoyed Conversations so far? How would you like to see our space progress in the coming months?

…Here I am playing a little N-Gage in the grass…

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Ricky Cadden Says:
August 4th, 2009 at 5:51 pm

SO pumped to see you heading things up, dude. Can you *please* bring back Voice of S60? The videos are awesome here on the site, but the Voice of S60 was such a great podcast, and I for one would love to be able to listen in on interviews with various folks in the Nokia ecosystem.

Phil Reply:
August 4th, 2009 at 7:17 pm

@Ricky Cadden – Thanks, man! I couldn’t be more excited to be here.

I’d LOVE to get back into the podcasting producing world. I had a ridiculous amount of fun doing it. But the show would need a new name…got any ideas?

Vaibhav Sharma Says:
August 4th, 2009 at 6:45 pm

Welcome Phil!

Caught your ‘Hello World’ tweet. A ‘Hello World – Here are a few pictures of the N98 for you to check out’ post would have done it as well.

Now that’d have been a huge entry…. But sadly a possible-probable exit as well!

Phil Reply:
August 4th, 2009 at 7:19 pm

@Vaibhav Sharma, – Are you glad I didn’t start with “Hello, world”?

Vaibhav Sharma Says:
August 4th, 2009 at 7:52 pm

What I am glad about is the fact that the first post is out of the way and now we can tune in for some real action!

As for the podcast, apart from the obvious ‘Voice of Nokia’, ‘Nokia Insider’ doesn’t sound too bad.

Nuno Pereira Says:
August 4th, 2009 at 9:27 pm

Well, that “Open at own risk” campaign caused some movement arround the web.. I’m honored to be one of the ones who have that T-Shirt in the drower! (I expect to see more of these).

Phil Reply:
August 5th, 2009 at 7:53 am

@Nuno Pereira – Glad you enjoyed it!! We had a lot of fun creating it. The amount of buzz it generated blew us away.

AdamF Says:
August 5th, 2009 at 11:31 am

Hi Phil,

I’m looking forward to reading your stories in the coming weeks/months/years

Tchau… Oh no, that’s Charlies tag.

You’ll need something of your own now

Phil Reply:
August 5th, 2009 at 1:18 pm

@AdamF – Thanks!!

lol, yeah, Charlie is all about the “tchau”. Hmmm…I need my own stamp. How about “-Phil”?

Stefan Constantinescu Says:
August 5th, 2009 at 3:42 pm

looking to see what you’re going to do with videos. your podcasts are great, but it’s time to get comfortable on camera and make videos like Charlie did for new products.

Phil Reply:
August 6th, 2009 at 10:27 am

@Stefan Constantinescu – Do you miss seeing my handsome face?