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Greg Young
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6 years at Gartner
22 years IT security

Greg Young is a research vice president in Gartner and the lead analyst for network security. Mr. Young has experience in IT security in product companies, and in both the private and public sectors. He spent his military career in technology security… Read Full Bio

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by Greg Young  |  January 14, 2009  |  3 Comments

I enjoyed Jennifer Leggio’s post on the ebbs and flows of favoring a social media type.

I’ve been a social networking curmudgeon.  I don’t really Facebook, I am not all aTwitter, and I am unLinkedIn.  I see the value in these, it is just that it is pretty much my full time job to be connected to our customers, albeit through our Customer Service Organization rather than via social media.

As an extension of my Gartner blog commitment, I am going to increase my use of LinkedIn, for which my profile is here. 

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  • 1 Stiennon   January 16, 2009 at 9:43 pm

    Great idea Greg. Though, in truth, Linkedin is a tool for 1. finding a job, 2. finding clients. Period.

    You may consider Twitter just so you can practice being succinct (not saying your not, just that a 140 character limit imposes discipline).

    You will not be alone: Look at all these analysts that are already on Twitter.
    http://sagecircle.wordpress.com/directories/analyst-twitter-directory/

    Follow me on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/stiennon

  • 2 Stiennon   January 16, 2009 at 9:44 pm

    Oops,.you’re

  • 3 Greg Young   February 3, 2009 at 12:35 pm

    I am conciously not Twittering because of concerns of client confidentiality. I guess I was in in the sneaky-squirrel business for too long.