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InfoWorld: The Changing Face of Community: Learning from Sugar

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Matt Asay
Dec 13, 2005

“I just got off the phone with Clint Oram, one of the founders
of SugarCRM and currently their VP of Products and Services. That’s
a somewhat non-descript way of saying what Clint really does: build
and leverage SugarCRM’s development community. In other words,
Chief Community Officer (which, as I’ve argued elsewhere, is
something that every technology company needs.)

“Clint said something that set me back on my heels. Of the top
50 contributors to SugarCRM’s development community, 95% of them
are SugarCRM partners. Think about that…”


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Matt Asay

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