I recently switched partners, and thus S-Numbers. I do not want to start a new SCN account, having to re-build my reputation and losing 1,100 points in the process. I have the highest reputation in the ByDesign space, so whatever SAP can do to graciously change my S-Number for my SCN account will be greatly appreciated.

Here is a list of recently featured content in the About SCN space. This way you won't miss anything!

The most recent features are added to the top of the list regularly.

December 2013

Behind the Scenes: Jeanne Carboni

Moderator Spotlight - Siddharth Rajora

Eight days a week SCN  - #SCNis10

Lukas Weigelt - SCN Member of the Month December 2013.

November 2013

Important! Rules of Engagement Updated

SCN Platform Update

Blog It Forward - A glimpse of Virtual Party Celebration

Blog It Forward – Vladimir Erakovic

Blog It Forward - Rick Bakker

Blog it Forward - Jeanne Carboni

OpenSearch on SCN II

Blog It Forward - Matthias Wild

Blog It Forward - Paul Bakker

Zahid Yener - SCN Member of the Month November 2013.

Special SCN Blog It Forward Celebration - Join us November 18

October 2013

The Ingredients for Magic

A rough look back

Blog It Forward – Gordon Du

10 Years Ago Here in Las Vegas: Happy Birthday SCN!

The Value of a Community: Results of the 2013 SCN User Survey

2013 Moderator Rules of Engagement

Project Ignite Update

Social Sign-On: An Easy Gateway to SCN - #SCNis10

Can SCN be improved further to help out Novice?

It's Been an Interesting Road...

Rick Bakker - SCN Member of the Month October 2013.

September 2013

Behind the Scenes: Jason Lax

To Infinity and Beyond!

SCN Ten Years On: Will SAP HANA do for data what Blogger did for words?

Blog It Forward – Otto Gold (One year too late)

#SCNis10 : 2009,The Year of Living Social (Media, That Is)

Moderator Spotlight - Jocelyn Dart

100,000 Pay it Forward in 2011! – #SCNis10

Announcing the SCN Topic Leaders 2012-2013

Happy Birthday SCN

Build a Better Blog (Step 4): SEO, Tagging and Posting Rules

Blog it Forward (#BIF) - It's Magic!

This year, my TechEd Bangalore is a very unique and fun experience. Last year, it wasn't just the fact that it is was first time in India that made it so unforgettable. It was also the fact that I made a lot of new friends that I was excited to meet this year. I was especially looking forward to meet  Blog It Forward - Jitendra Kansal , my most important BIF partner. Meeting Jitendra and all the other friends was a great start for TechEd Bangalore 2013 week.

Later on, I will publish some blogs sharing the SAP TechEd experience, but in this blog I want to highlight  two important SCN events that will take place (besides the Fail Fair which is fully booked):

SCN moderator meetup:

Time: Thursday, 14:30-15:00, SCN booth

SCN Blog It Forward Celebration and a quiz with prizes:):

Time: Friday, 14:30-15:00, SCN booth (please register here)

Looking forward to meet all of you:).

Hello All,

Welcome to My world.

Thanks to Chandra Shekhar Agarwal for inviting me.

Lets describe my self.

My name is Dev Patra. Basically I am from Paschim Medinipur in India. This is my village, I am staying in Kolkata for working purpose.

I have a elder brother, His name is Suvendu Patra. He is a Senior Software Engineer. He is working on Learning Met Solution Pvt. Ltd.

My father is worker. He is working in a privet company. My Mother is a house wife.

I born in a small village, named Paschim Medinipur. I have done my primary education in that village.

Lets see some picture for my village

I am belonging from this nice green village. Where the farmer make rice, onion, potato etc etc.

I born in year 1988, 3th March.

Here is some my childhood photos.

This is a picture of mine (Can you imagine???)..

This pic is me and my mother.

Its all about year 1988, when I was just 1 year old.

This picture is me, my elder brother, my grandfather and my grandmother

(Unfortunately my grandfather and my grandmother is no more. We miss them a lottttttttttttttttttt.... We love you grandfa and grandma.)

This photo is me and my brother...

When I as in class nine, I am really very much interested on Electronics parts. We guys can't believe that I Opened Radio, TV, Freeze on my home and I can't re-arrange them and leave them openly.

My mother hit me many times for that.

My Education

When I passed 10th (madhyamic) on 2004, I joined on a institute for learn electronics work. There I have worked 1.5 years and get a lots of experience about electronics.

Then I decided to do a diploma course from an government collage. So I joined ITI- Industrial Training Institute In electronics course.

I have done diploma from this collage. I was marked 530 of 600 in exam and I got the second place in this university.

My Professional Life

I have joined a privet company named Lux Industries Limited (LUX COZI) as a data entry user on legacy/foxpro on 2008, Jan 25th.

I worked as a data entry user more about 2 years. I learned a lots of things, and as per my working experience, my project head give me the position of FoxPro Database Analyst.

On March, 2011 My company decided to implement SAP. At that time I am totally new in SAP. Our SAP team trained us all as a SAP END user.

I learned SAP and I was working as a SAP end user.

Then One of our SAP team member, Named Rakesh Singh tech me SAP ERP package.

This is my SAP teacher and my inspiration. He teach me a lots of things on SAP. He is working in TCS now.

He teach me around 6 months, Then as per my learning experience he recommend me as a SAP MM SUPER USER on my organization.

My HR department agree with that and give me designation of SAP MM Super User. Then after 1 year My Team lead shifted my designation from SAP MM Super User to SAP MM Associate Consultant.

Till now I am working as a SAP MM Associate Consultant.

As you know I have leaved my education after diploma, Now I have decided to complete my graduation. So I have admitted in SMU for higher education.

Now its little tough to handle study and work both, But I decide, I have to do that.

My Tours and Travels

On 2011, we are going to Duars with my all office colleagues . Here some memory I have collected.

This is memorable tour in my life. We had a lots of fun with my all colleagues.

Then in 2012, We went to DIGHA with my 3 friends.

We had a lots of fun there.

My Best Friend

Here is My best friend in my life. His name is RANA KOLEY. He is married.

Recently he got a baby girl. But unfortunately I have no picture of her.

We are in Durga Puja

In every year, we saw every pandal of devi durga in whole kolkata.

My cute cousin on Holi.

My Ambition

Firstly be a good man.

Secondly I want to be a SAP MM Consultant. I am very very crazy about SAP.

I want to be a good professional man on industry.

I maintain my BIF to Blog It Forward- Chandra Shekhar Agarwal

Blog Forward:

I would like to blog forward to

Jitendra Kansal

Suseelan Hari

Sheetal Premnath

Mithun ps

PREETI KASHYAP

You can also write your blog on this Blog It Forward Community Challenge

I want to ask some question about me.

1. What is my Ambition ?

2. What is name of my best friend?

Thats all for me....

Thank you for reading My blog, and Knowing me.

Even after having read David Allen’s “Getting things done”,it still took me more than a year to start writing my BIF entry after having been “BIFfed” by colleague Wim Snoep (Sorry for that Wim)

Growing up

My journey started way back, in 1974 to be precise, after being born in very small village called Mariahout,nearby Eindhoven in The Netherlands.

(For all Dutch/Belgian readers: Mariahout is also the village in which famous singer-/songwriter Guus Meeuwiswas born.)

The first decade of my life was spend completely “computer-less”, as the first computer my parents bought me was a 2^nd hand Atari 2600 for my 11^th birthday.

After the Atari, the MSX I entered my bedroom and the first lines of code were created via MSX Basic. Adding a music module even made me pursue a carrier in the music industry…but this was a short lived adventure.

I also outlived the MSX I (loading games via tape) and purchased a Commodore 64 which was able to load games via an external 1541 disk drive! This was as big as a ‘game changer’ for me then, as SAP HANA is for me now. Everything seemed to load with the speed of light!

After I was fed up (if that is even possible) with coding and gaming on the commodore 64, I’d bought my first PC which was equipped with a 386 DX-II processor and a turbo-boost button! This PC was my partner in crime during the whole of my Computer Science study which I successfully completed in 1996.

Having to/going to work

After having attended several ABAP courses by Marien de Ridder, I’d took my first steps as an ABAP “developer” at a local Brewery in Lieshout, The Netherlands.

I’ve ‘painted’ beautiful ‘screens’ (who needs Personas?) and made even more beautiful SAPscript documents….all of which needed to be recoded via StreamServe at a later stage.

When I believed my learning curve was flattening, I decided to leave the brewery and crossed over from being an SAP customer to an SAP consultant. The first few years of my consulting career was a concatenation of highlights as I was given the chance to work closely together to, whom until today I believe to be one of the best ‘Abappers’ I’ve ever met (no offense to all others), Ben Meijs.

Having Ben Meijs as your mentor/tutor really helps a lot in switching your mindset from being a ‘playground’-ABAP consultant towards a professional one.

Until today I still don’t exactly know why, I guess the devil made me do it, but I left Ben and pursued my career at another SAP consulting firm.

At Ciber I took my first steps into a whole new world which, at that time, was called SAP BW. Under the guidance of Laurens Vestjens I gradually transformed from an ABAP- towards a BI consultant.

And now, more than a decade!! later, I’m still a happy SAP BI consultant, delighted to be married to Daphne (who’s pursuing a career in (freelance) photography) and a father of two (Koen and Luc) future SAP consultants

Q&A

Last but not least I’ll try to answer the questions which Wim Snoep asked me….over a year ago. (Again sorry Wim that it took me so long to write this all down)

1)    If you were 20 again, what would you study?

As I’m not only intrigued by technique, but also fascinated with personal growth (I try to live by the 7 habits of highly effective people) I believe I would be attending a study in that area. Possibly an MBA study.

2) If you were given by your work a full day every week to do whatever you feel like, what would it be?

In fact....Ciberhas given me this day….which led to the creation of the Ciber ProfitBoost – Sales solution. Together with several colleagues we’d created a solution which is designed to help organizations optimize profit margins through well-informed price differentiation. It’s an SAP PA (Predictive Analytics) based solution running on SAP HANA and uniquely combines algorithms and data mining capabilities to help identifying, exploring and realizing incremental potential profit in sales.

3) Marilyn's question: Describe an instance when empathy in a project, development, collaboration, work experience, or community interaction turned a situation around (or should have)?

This question kind of leads back to the answer given at question 1: When you (try to) live according to the 7 habits, in this case especially habit 4, 5 and 6 (win-win, understand-understood and synergize) which are all about inter dependency, I strongly believe that the situation that Marilyn is describing would never occur in the first place! There’s no i in team!

Pay it forward

Being “BIFfed” also gives me the opportunity to name a few people who I’d like to join the BIF initiative. These are, in random order:

• Ben Meijs              
• Dick Groenhof        
• Xavier Hacking       

I would like to ask them to answer the following questions:

• Recommend resources of information that help you in your work
• If you were 20 again, what would you study?
• What is your professional life dream?

Please be sure to follow the Blog It Forward Chain to be notified when Ben, Dick or Xavier update the link to their "BIF" blog.

Best regards

Sven van Leuken

The following table list the Moderators, Space Editors and Content strategists for all New SCN spaces.

For a list of SCN Wiki moderators, visit List of Wiki Moderators - SCN Wiki

Hello, Bonjour SCNers!

Firstly, thanks to Ingo Hilgefort for blogging me forward and for giving me the opportunity to present myself to the broader SAP community.

A little about my country: Canada

I live in the awesome city of Montreal. Located in the eastern part of the country, the island of Montreal boasts a European flair. This is probably one of the reasons my parents immigrated here from Europe in the 70s. The city is very culturally diverse. The official  languages are French and English, which makes for fun conversations in what we call “FrenGlish,” whereby we switch/mix both languages in the same sentence. We have 4 distinct seasons and 2 extreme temperatures: Cold Winters and Hot Summers. Hot summers are cooled down with a great, cold, and refreshing MolsonCoors Beer!

A fun fact about me: I was born on April 20th and I wanted to become a chef!

My cultural background is a mix of French and Greek, as you might have guessed by the 13 letters in my last name. My early university studies were leading me towards a career in Hotel and Restaurant Management. As a kid, my dream job was to become a world-renowned Chef. Cooking is still a passion that I share with my loved ones. Another fun fact about me is that I won a Rally championship as a co-pilot.As some of you already know, I have recently been appointed SAP Mentor with an area of expertise in the BI front-end tools.

That's me with Andrew Murray from SAP Paris in a big discussion at TechEd 2013

What is my Role at MolsonCoors?

My current employer is MolsonCoors Brewing Company. Yes… BEER Every guy's dream job!

Here's one of my favourite TV ads for one of our brands, Molson Canadian: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUqsF8vbR_Q

What started as a month-long contract has turned into 4 completely different positions, and, 12 year later, I'm still enjoying working in Business Intelligence for one of the world's top brewers. My role as BI Business Partner is new to the organization. Our main focus is to standardize our BI offerings on a global scale and make sure the business is getting the best value from the BI tools. I am responsible for our Corporate Centre located in Denver, Colorado and our International Division. We have offices around the globe (China, India, Japan, Spain, Caribbean, etc) My goal is to visit each one of our offices. Did I mention I love to travel?

So here's my answers to BIF questions

1) What superpower would you like to have, and why?

If I had a superpower… It would have to be something with time. Like Hiro Nakamura in the series Heroes!

2) If you were a flavor of ice cream, what would you be?

I would say Chocolate as there's so many layers of complexity in the flavour and everybody like it

3) If you were a chef at my restaurant, what would you cook?

I would make you one of my favourite Greek dishes of roasted lamb over lemony potatoes. Super simple but delicious

I would like to blog it forward to my fellow Mentors Joyce Butler,Leonardo De Araujo and my friend James Rapp

A Bientôt!

A.

Hi,

   Please anyone could help me to stop getting Newsletters and Notifications. I am getting thousands of mail per day from also that modules which are not following by me like BI, BW, SAP mobile etc. Please help me that how can I stop them.

          Thanks in advance.

Thanks

Piyush

My colleagues and I have a weekly geek meeting where we discuss everything from upcoming fashion trends to new ABAP data types. At our last geek week meeting we discussed SAP buzzwords 2013 and thought that it might be interesting to share the list with you.

The idea of the list is for SAP developers to have a quick overview of the latest buzz. At your next SAP cocktail party you can then join the SAP small talk. Wait a minute, developers do not have cocktail parties. Ok, then at least you might find it useful at the next SAP TechEd or perhaps you even find buzz you never heard of and will catch up on.

Since years I have wanted to write a blog on the yearly SAP buzz, but failed badly due to incompleteness. The only thing I am therefore completely sure of is, that the list is incomplete. Therefore, I reach out to the community to help compile the list. Please add a comment with buzzwords that should be added or removed.

I consider buzz a relatively new or frequently used term that is used by SAP professionals during the past year. Buzz can have a life span of several years, such as for example HANA. The list is therefore not limited to new terms.

Thank you!

SAP Buzz 2013 List

This blog is part of the Blog it Forward activity. I was blogged forward by Blog It Forward - AhMeD IbRaHiM and Blog It Forward - Jitendra Kansal and would like to thank AhMeD and Jitendra for this great opportunity to provide some information about myself to the community. In case you are not familiar with the Blog it Forward activity, get more information here - and if you would like to participate have a look at this chain.

Intro of myself

My name is Hannes Kuehnemund and I was born in Germany in a city called Weissenfels in Eastern Germany. Since then may parents moved a lot and finally settled near Heidelberg where I finished school and got my Bachelor of Arts degree. Heidelberg is just a few miles north of Walldorf. SAP has been present all the time as a matter of fact and so it was quite obvious to start my career at SAP in fall 2000.

In the first years at SAP I held various positions in product and release management as well as ABAP development for SAP HR (R/3 4.7 Enterprise). In 2003 I moved into the SAP LinuxLab to finally make my hobby - Linux - my profession. In the LinuxLab I was doing various tasks like porting the SAP R3SETUP installer to Linux IA64 (Itanium), work on performance optimizations in the Linux IO scheduler or a side project called NetWeaver on a stick (which we stopped because a 2GB USB stick was way too expensive at that time!!). I introduced PGO makes for SAP on Linux kernels using the gcc 4.1.2 complier onwards. By time I was also responsible for the SAP on Linux Hardware and Virtualization certification which finally lead to the certification of Amazon Web Services for SAP production use.

Since 2011 I'm the product owner for SAP Cloud Appliance Library (CAL) working for Markus WINTER out of the SAP Palo Alto office.

Where do I live now

Since February 2013 I live in Silicon Valley - and this will continue to be the greatest experience I make in my life. There are so many cultures in the valley, so much entrepreneurship, so much future and innovative thinking around - it is mind blowing. I love having so many food options around, besides the traditional American food there is a Fusion restaurant for every cuisine available. Last but not least, I started to become addicted to Indian Food, especially Butter Chicken. Simply AWESOME!

... and BTW, GO SHARKS GO

A fun fact about myself

I'm working for SAP for more than 13 years now, never for another company. The funny thing is, that I never wrote an application for any company - so how did I get a job at SAP? It is simple; it was my mother who wrote the application for me. I was surprised when she told me that I have an interview for a sponsored university program at SAP back in 1998. I managed the interview and got selected for one of the 30 positions, 2 years ahead of time (because I was still in school at that time and did not waste a thought about my future).

The Best Thing I like about SAP

Wow, there are countless things I like at SAP, all the people I have been in touch with the last 13+ years - the spirit that allows the employees to make special things happen, the openness of communication, and much more.

The most wonderful memory in your life until now

That was probably the vacation with my dad, when both of us were heading first to Ulan Bataar, then we took a small plane to Dalanzangad from where we took the traditional Russian UAS jeep into the Gobi desert to participate at the Gobi Marathon. My dad and I were in position 3 and 4 and just before the finish line he let me advance although I was completely exhausted and he was actually still in very good shape. So finishing your first marathon in the desert of Gobi, 3rd place with the support of your dad - that is still the most wonderful memory of my life until now. After that we did a couple of other (ultra) marathons too ...

Which is the most satisfactory moment in my life?

Easy - it was when I turned 18 (becoming an adult in Germany) and was allowed to do everything I was not allowed the day before ;-)

What did I do yesterday

My wife and I participated in a community event where both of us (and probably 300+ other people and kids) packaged Christmas presents. It was a huge Toy Wrapping Party at the Red Morton Community Center in Redwood city. It was an unbelievable great experience and you learn how to package a basketball ... that was really hard! ;-)

Hobbies that are worth to be mentioned

One of my favorite things to do is preparing speeches for the Toastmaster meetings. Being an officer of the local SAP Toastmasters club is it my duty to deliver great speeches and encourage everyone to join the club because there are so many dormant skills which Toastmaster awoke in me. The professionalism one gains after being a member at a Toastmaster club is much more than you would get from any 1-week training I've ever attended.

Also, I like Video games - a lot - and I impressed the trainer of the enterprise gamification training lately when he asked the round how many video games we have played in our life. The average number in the group was approximately 10-15 (without me). I played around 2000 video games up to now (not all of them until the final boss) and still enjoy it. It is unbelievable how different every game is and how creative game developers are. I made my dream come true in 2010 when I visited Tokyo / Akihabara to experience the Japanese gaming culture. The below picture was taken is Asakusa/Tokyo next to the Bandai building.

Blogging it forward

I hope that every body learned something about me and I would like to give other the same chance too. Therefore I blog it forward to:

Kumar Gaurav and

Ken Landau

with the following questions:

• What is the best resource of information on SCN?
• Do you think everybody should have a profile picture and why?
• Is there anything that you would do different in your life?

So long ... thank for reading and talk to you soon

Hi All,

I was waiting for a long time to being Tagged for Blog It Forward Community Challenge

and finally was Blogged Forward by Jitendra KansalBlog It Forward - Jitendra Kansal and @Hannes Kuehnemund Blog it Forward - Hannes Kuehnemund.

Thanks to you both for providing me this opportunity to take part in the Blog It Forward Community Challenge and Introduce myself to the community.

Hats Off to Moshe Naveh for this wonderful Idea of introducing the BIF Challenge.

To know more about this challenge you can go to Blog It Forward Community Challenge and to get yourself registered for this you can go to Blog It Forward- Request to Join Table

About Myself: 

My Name is Kumar Gaurav . Gaurav means Glory. Everyone get confused with my name as in India the name should be like Gaurav Kumar and always ask me what is my first name . I answer them that Kumar is my first name and Gaurav is Last.

I am working as SAP CRM Consultant with Knack Systems LLC and currently living in chandigarh (the city beautiful) .

I joined Knack Systems three years back as a fresher and then I got trained in SAP ABAP and CRM Web UI. Frankly speaking I do not much about SAP when I Joined Knack Systems. But now I love to work in SAP. Also in North India the peoples are not much aware of SAP . Many of them ask what is SAP when we tell them about our Job.

I also wish mention one of my best friend and colleague Harish Kumar . We both started using SCN together. He is also an Active member of SCN. He was also my roommate for 2 years. We both used to do SCN when we were at Home.

I would also like to share one Pic of mine and Harish Kumar

I love to watch News Hour Debate by Arnav Goswami on Times Now Channel.

Facts About my country India:

I am very Proud to be an Indian...I love India..

• The name 'India' is derived from the River Indus, the valleys around which were the home of the early settlers. The Aryan worshipers referred to the river Indus as the Sindhu.
• India is the world's Largest democracy.
• Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.
• India exports software to 90 countries.
• Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus are studies, which originated in India.
• Taj Mehal is listed in the New list of Seven Wonders in the World.

There are many more other facts about India and list never ends.....

Facts About my Home Town:

I was born at Una District of Himachal Pradesh. Himachal is also known as Land of Gods. You can find many Temples in Himachal.

The most famous places in Himachal are Shimla, Chamba, dalhousie and many more...

Every year many tourists visit Himachal specially in Summers.

Lets see some Awsome Pics from Himachal

                                            Dalhousie

                                                Shimla

My College :

I have done Masters in Computer Application from Punjabi University Patiala . I am 2011 Pass-out. It is a one of the most beautiful Universities in North India and its also the First University in Asia who named after a Language (Punjabi).

I enjoyed every moment when I was in the university .

University days are the most precious days of my life.

I want to share with you my University Pics when we celebrated Holi(Festival of colors) there.

Questions Asked by Jitendra:

1. What makes you smile/laugh?

When I watched any Comedy Movie or Show then it really make me laugh. I love to watch comedy movies and shows.

2.Had you not been into software at all, where would you have been?

If I had not in Software line then I would like to continue my study in Physics and would like to be an Scientist.

I always enjoyed studying Physics.

3. What is the craziest thing you would have done in your life.

I have not remember exactly what craziest thing I have done so far .

if In future I would do something craziest then will definitely like share.

I would like to Blog it forward to following people:

Vinod Kommineni. Devashish Bhattacharya  Harish Kumar

And my question for them are:

1) How do you deal with criticism?

2) How you came to know about SCN.

3) Latest incident that make you laugh.

Thanks for reading about me. Hope you enjoyed it at least the Pics.....

Hi!

If you wish to Join the #BlogItForward (BIF) challenge and you haven't been tagged yet, please edit the document to add your name below in the table. Then someone will Blog It Forward to you.

Please remember to remove your name once you join BIF and update the Blog It Forward chain

Ariba

Original Title

First Blogpost ever - I introduce myself first :-)

So, in the beginning I would introduce myself first. I'm not sure, if anybody is interested in stuff like that, but if, here's my story:

How I became a Developer.

In the beginning, my mother born a son... ahh stop it ok ok, let give me another try to start this here.

When I finished school I became first a professional seller. That means I sold dishes, knifes, all stuff you need in the kitchen

After four years doing that, I had to decide to move Cologne or to munich for my company.

I pretty was in the early twenties and I wasn't sure, if that should be my next step, because i just was not loving the job that much.

So I took a break by joining the german army. You have to know, every german young man has to join them for at least nine month at that time. It's called "Grundwehrdienst".

Few month after doing that, my Sgt. came to me asking me, if I want to join them for longer than just the few month and he told me, that i can study after my time in the army by getting paid. That sounded good to me and so I joined the army at least for 8 years.

During that time, i visited different classes where i learned a lot of it, such as Java, Powershell and stuff like that and I had a lot of fun programming things in my offtime. When the 8 years passed by I had to choose. What should I study and of course, here my story as a developer begins.

I joined a german school where I learned a lot necessary and also a lot not necessary stuff about computers and all the things around it.

When I finished the school after 2 years I send my CV to different companies and my actual company give me a chance getting a certified ABAP-developer.

I took the chance, passed the course with a very good certify and doing that now a couple years...

Next time, i will give less informations about me, and more informations about programming *gg*

BTW, thank you for reading to the end

Regards

Florian

Here is the content, i need to match the BIF community

Growing up

My journey started in 1979 being born in Würzburg, it is a town between Frankfurt and Nürnberg Germany. We got famous wine and the Residenz.

See the picture below

Here are some of the questions i answer in responce to Susan Keohan because she invited me to join BIF

Do you know any other cool/very unique solutions related to your topic?

Yes, i do I will share some of my knowledge in my blog and shared some in my wiki...

Name the person who affected you most in your career/ way of thinking and why?

That was my army-mate Major Grießbaum, who told me what are important things in life and how i can get my dreams come true

Thank you for being there and telling me this secrets

What do you think are the key elements for a successful project?

Getting a good project team, which are very "talki" with everyone. The worst thing is, not to share your own knowledge with people doing the same

What was the most fun project you ever participated in and why?

Years ago, building an remote-cdplayer when studiing, because i use it till today and love the awesome design

If you were not in your current position, what/where would you be and why?

I think I would be an technican, because that is another big thing in my life, I love to get behind the package and see, what's going inside...

But, my company give me the chance and I used it

What do you most enjoy on SCN?

Having that much information in such a small corner of the internet and getting that close to other people, doing the same like me. And, being very close to them, which are developing things I use ( most of the time)

What is the best resource of information on SCN?

Most of them are good i think. It just depends on that, what you want to know

My questions are:

How do you get in touch to the news you need?

What do you think about all the new possibilities SAP throws right out to us?

Follow the Blog It Forward Chain to be notified when Patrick join the "BIF".

SAP Community Network is a gamified community where members can complete missions, earn points and badges. Badges represent certain achievements such as being onboarded, an active blogger, an influencer or thought leader, someone who shares knowledge via documents or in the discussions, etc.

This document lists all the SCN badges that are available for people to earn.

Visit your profile, reputation tab, "Missions" area to learn more about these missions, such as:

• Requirements to complete the mission (hover over the mission card, click the gear button to see the flip side)

                                 front side:                                                                                                     flip side:

• Who recently completed the mission
• How many points you get for completing the mission

Site-wide missions:

Type of Mission	Mission Name	Badge	Mission Description	Progression Mission?	Pre-requisite	Level Requirement?
Log-in	I Was Here		Carve your name on the SCN wall. Log in once.
Onboarding	First Steps		Come out of the shadows and start engaging with the community! Provide feedback on the content you read.
Onboarding	Ready (Set Go!)		It's time to show us who you are. Fill out your user profile and add a photo and avatar.
Onboarding	Ready Set (Go!)		Get ready to contribute! Read about proper community behavior on SCN, and read about how to search.	Yes	Ready (Set Go!)
Onboarding	Ready Set Go!		You're almost ready to jump in and participate. Follow some members, provide feedback on some content, and post a status update.	Yes	Ready Set (Go!)
Blogger	I Blogged!		Read about proper community behavior on SCN, then create your first blog.
Blogger	In a Blogging Mood		This blogging thing is kinda cool! Post some more blogs that contain good content and attract likes and ratings.	Yes	I Blogged!
Blogger	Storyteller		You have a lot to say, and you like to say it in a blog. Write more blogs that attract likes and good ratings.	Yes	In a Blogging Mood
Blogger	Storyteller Plus		You like blogging, but you're active in other types of content too. Share your thoughts on other members' content by commenting or rating. Reply to a question in the discussion forums.	Yes	Storyteller
Blogger	Super Storyteller		You blog more than you breathe. Keep up the great work and produce more great blog posts that draw likes and ratings from the community.	Yes	Storyteller
Blogger	Blog It Forward		Posted a Blog It Forward blog
Discussion	I Was Helpful!		Read about proper community behavior on SCN, then celebrate when your answer to a question is marked Helpful!
Discussion	I Was Right!		Read about proper community behavior on SCN, then celebrate when your answer to a question is marked Correct!
Discussion	In a Helping Mood		Share your expertise in the discussion forums and have your answers marked as Correct.	Yes	I Was Right!
Discussion	Answer Hero		You like to help others solve their problems by answering their questions. Have more answers marked as Correct.	Yes	In a Helping Mood
Discussion	Answer Hero Plus		You answer questions more than you breathe, but you're active in other types of content too. Share your thoughts on other members' content by commenting or rating.	Yes	Answer Hero
Discussion	Super Answer Hero		You contribute to the discussion forums day and night.	Yes	Answer Hero
Document	I Shared Some Knowledge!		Read about proper community behavior on SCN, then create your first document.
Document	In a Knowledge Sharing Mood		This knowledge sharing thing is kinda cool! Get into the writing groove by posting some more documents.	Yes	I Shared Some Knowledge!
Document	Tutor		You have a lot of knowledge to share and you like to share it in a document. Write more documents that attract likes and good ratings.	Yes	In a Knowledge Sharing Mood
Document	Tutor Plus		You like producing documents, but you're active in other types of content too. Share your thoughts on other members' content by commenting or rating.	Yes	Tutor
Document	Super Tutor		You produce content more than you breathe. Keep up the great work and produce more great documents that draw likes and ratings from the community.	Yes	Tutor
Expertise	SCN Topic Leader 2013		Your quality contributions and exemplary engagement in a topic area let your expertise shine. You were recognized as a Topic Leader in the 2012-2013 contest
Community Leader	5 hidden missions	various badges		Yes, some  do		Yes, some do (e.g. Bronze)
Feedback	SCN Survey 2013		Gave input about SAP Community Network: filled out the 2013 SCN Survey (closed now)
SAP TechEd	SAP TechEd 2013 Las Vegas Attendee		Register to attend SAP TechEd 2013 Las Vegas and provide your SCN ID
SAP TechEd	SAP TechEd 2013 Amsterdam Attendee		Register to attend SAP TechEd 2013 Amsterdam and provide your SCN ID
SAP TechEd	SAP TechEd Bangalore Attendee		Register to attend SAP TechEd 2013 Bangalore and provide your SCN ID
SAP TechEd	SCN Clubhouse		Stop by the Clubhouse on the SAP TechEd show floor and get your badge scanned at the sticker pickup or photo studio.		Enter your SCN ID in your TechEd registration
SAP TechEd	SAP TechEd 2013 Speaker		Be a speaker or give a networking lounge session at SAP TechEd 2013		Enter your SCN ID in your TechEd registration
SAP TechEd	SAP TechEd 2013 Live		Had their thoughts televized at SAP TechEd Live in 2013
SAP TechEd	SAP TechEd 2013 Share the Knowledge Qualification		Blog about what you learned at SAP TechEd 2013 in person or virtually, submit your blog to the contest, and be selected as qualifying for the contest.
SAP TechEd	SAP TechEd 2013 InnoJam winner		Won an SAP TechEd InnoJam competition in 2013
SAP TechEd	SAP TechEd 2013 DemoJam winner		Won an SAP TechEd DemoJam competition in 2013
SAP Inside Track	SAP Inside Track 2013 Organizer or Volunteer		Organized an SAP InsideTrack event in 2013 or volunteered at an SAP InsideTrack event in 2013
SAP Inside Track	SAP Inside Track 2013 Speaker		Spoke at an SAP InsideTrack event in 2013

Space-specific missions:

Type of Mission	Space	Mission Name	Badge	Mission Description	Progression Mission?	Pre-requisite	Level Requirement?
Challenge	SAP Lumira	Accept the Data Geek Challenge		Accept the Data Geek Challenge. Click the gear to flip the tile and find out how.	Yes
Challenge	SAP Lumira	Share your Data Geek Knowledge		Share Your Data Geek Knowledge. Click the gear to flip the tile and find out how.	Yes	Accept the Data Geek Challenge
Challenge	SAP Lumira	Data Geek Squad		Member of the Data Geek Squad, submit your Data Geek Challenge entry.	Yes	Share Your Data Geek Knowledge
Campaign	About SCN	I Voted for the "Real Founder of SCN"		Vote for the best SCN Founder video via poll on SCN.
Campaign	About SCN	SCN and Me		Submitted a (video) blog describing how SCN has helped their career. (hidden mission)
Community	About SCN	Be a Better Member		Read and bookmark the revised Rules of Engagement, then show your knowledge in a poll. Note: mission ends on February 1, 2014.

Quick guide on optimizing your SCN content for search engines to give it more visibility on search results, increasing views and feedback.  Automation on SCN's platform takes care of most optimizations and this document explains how so that you can make it work to your advantage...and then some.

This cheat sheet assumes readers have basic knowledge of SEO and HTML. Visit Place Your Keywords Where They Matter Most (SCN Wiki) for an overview of the elements explained below and follow the links provided.

While click on the link websmp130.sap-ag.de system asks Authentication Required.I have already register in scn.sap.com but if i give my username and password it's keep on loading and not fetch any data. Could you help me to sort out this issue?

Thanks in Advance.

Hi,

I have written the Blog It forward blog but cannot see the Badge for Blog it forward under my profile. Can you please tell me what could be the reason ..

Thanks

Kumar

SAP Community Network (SCN) is a great place for SAP professionals to connect, collaborate and build their reputations. For the best collective experience on SCN, we ask that members adhere to rules of engagement. These rules of engagement are not intended to provide any legal advice, nor do they replace the terms of use. However, these give a good overview of how to behave in SCN.

Good Community Etiquette and Behavior

1. Log in to fully participate, giving feedback to those who help you through likes, ratings and comments. Use your real identity to build your own personal brand.
2. Be yourself. Provide as much information as you can in your profile. Please use a clear picture of yourself, to put your face with your name. Don't use logos or other graphical content that you copied from somewhere else.  
3. Search before you post. There are many answered questions and helpful postings already in SCN. Before posting a new question, please search SCN to see if it’s already been asked / answered. That’s the fastest way to get your information.
4. Avoid slang. There are many languages and cultures represented in the community. The primary language of most spaces is English. Non-English content should be posted in the appropriate language-specific space (see the Site Index) or posted in the original language with translation to English included. Please avoid slang and SMS Text Speak.
5. Share expertise transparently. SCN is a community site that encourages public knowledge sharing. Be open about your knowledge and how you obtained it.
6. Avoid solicitations. Avoid marketing your company’s products and services.  If you want people to know your affiliation with your company, put those details in your profile to make the information available to the community. Do not embed links to ads in your posts.  The same applies to email solicitations and advertising.  If you want someone to trust you enough to buy what you offer, share your expertise and they will seek you out. If you want people to contact you, you can choose to make your email visible in your profile, but we ask you not to post it elsewhere on the site.
7. Be professional and courteous. Temper negative emotions, keeping communications professional. Do not berate other members for asking questions or posting something you don’t like. The community is intended to be open on a variety of topics.
8. Be responsive. If an SCN member has answered your question, please mark the answer as "helpful” or “correct”. Mark the discussion as “answered,” so that other members can find the answers more easily.
9. Don’t copy / paste other’s content. Be original.
10. Report rule violations: Click the abuse button if you believe an SCN member is violating the rules of engagement.  For more details on this, read Reporting Abuses and Notifying Moderator on SCN.

Grounds for Rejections of Posts or Account Removal

There are a few things you cannot do in SCN. These are actions that could lead to removal of your content or disabling / deleting your account. Please be diligent and avoid these behaviors. 

1. Points-cheating: Engaging in activity for the purpose of increasing one’s own or another’s points. This includes working with other users to rate content highly, creating “fake” users to rate one’s content highly, or any other points-focused activity that does not benefit the community at large.
2. Defaming another member: Posting content that discriminates against members based on any perceived differences, including but not limited to differences in culture, race, ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression and physical ability. Read more on SAP’s diversity values.
3. Copyright infringement: The Terms of Use require that all content submitted to SCN be original content created by the author or reproduced with the permission of the copyright owner.

More about Copyright

Copyright gives authors and creators the exclusive right to make copies, license, and/or otherwise exploit content, regardless of the media. See www.copyright.gov for more information. Copying someone else’s work into your own post may violate copyright laws. Please do not copy others work without first gaining written permission from the originator.  This includes SAP help files and training materials.

There are three general categories of copyright issues that typically occur in SCN. The table below describes these common scenarios as well as actions SAP may take:

When Someone Breaks the Rules

Click the abuse button if you believe an SCN member is violating the rules of engagement.  Select the appropriate type of abuse when you report it, and provide a comment so that the moderator knows how to handle it.

If you are a copyright owner and someone has used your content without your permission please follow the instructions at SAP’s Copyrights and Copyright Agent, Disclaimer and Trademarks page.

I would complete my five months of active participation in SCN by the end of this month. I cannot say that I'm a new member anymore. I thought to share my views, by writing this blog, about loyalty or awareness of new users. When I joined, I struggled to get out of moderator review system and it took good time to reach 30 points after which I was able to post my content directly. I went to my missions to earn points and badges to get out of it!!

I followed them, completed the given tasks and had to review them thoroughly as I wasn't able to post anything and get involved with in community directly. It would be honest to say that I read everything because there was something (moderator review system) which kept me away and I got the time to read.

Time has past and today I can say, I do my best to follow the community rules. I still keep on reviewing the new content and any new rule introduced. But one thing which bothers me is now everyone, on the first day itself can earn good points and few badges by completing basic missions. But my question is: Are they actually reviewing the rules and following them. When I started writing this blog

The SCN Rules of Engagement already has 3357 Bookmarks, 896 Likes and 591 ratings (No comments though)

How to use SCN search has 943 Bookmarks, 935 Likes and 831 ratings.

Another one How to close a discussion and why is a wonderful blog and quite popular these days and also being referred to many places

These figure are quite impressive!! But do they reflect real picture?

3357 users, who bookmarked the rules, did actually review them. These 935 likes along with 831 ratings do actually search before posting?  I don't think so.

I frequently come across very common queries, for which solution doesn't exceed 30 words, in different forums. Yes, there could be exceptions as nobody is perfect and mistakes are part of human life. But exceptions do not exists in big numbers. We really need to think about it.

What is my intent behind sharing this?  It is just to keep this community healthy and best around the globe. It has brought many of us together, on a common platform to share our knowledge. We have learned so much through SCN and still learning by various mediums it gives. I have also seen several moderators always trying so hard to keep the community by rules and proper etiquette. They are good but this is not only their job. We all need to play a role here, to help them, to keep this community clean. What can we give it back and most importantly how ??

I feel that any mission shouldn't be completed just by doing current tasks. I understand that they were sufficient during foundation of this community but everything changes with time. I strongly feel a need of an additional task. I'll explain. In current missions, there should be a very small objective test to earn the badge.

e.g. Some one going for Rules of Engagement must be aware of 'Be responsive' thing. Sample Questions:

• How to close a question? a. Correct b. Helpful c. Like
• How to find quick solution? a. Post query, b. Search SCN
• How to share an article, information? a. Document, b. Blog, c. Create thread.

Once correct, earn the badge. This would somehow improve the quality of missions and definitely spread awareness. I can bet that most of us like/rate a content because that is needed to complete initial missions and subsequently associated points and badges !!

I don't say that these should be exact questions to ask because there are analytic persons to thinks about this, the better and effective questions. This would make members to abide the rules. This would also reduce the abuse reports for searchable queries, duplicate threads etc and further, moderator would not be needed to send DM or delete/lock such content.

Yes, there would always be people who would never go for missions and keep on posting the queries when stuck and go away without responding. But if this was to be given a thought, I don't think founders would have actually started the missions at first place. They expect them to be followed and they need to be followed!!

And those figure have now changed to 3364 Bookmarks, 897 Likes and 593 ratings

These are purely my views! I want to know what all SCNian out there got to share on this.

Regards,

Nitin Jinagal

PS: I have tried to keep this blog intact. If any moderator finds it violating anything, please delete and kindly notify me with reasons.

I'll delete this PS statement when a moderator says its OK

Are you relatively new in SAP and asking a lot of questions on the SCN?

Excellent! That's what I believe the SCN is for.

Now, many of you will be missing an easy opportunity to make friends here (and therefore being more likely to get good answers fast).

Just follow these steps:

1) Click on your oen name at the top of the screen to get to your profile, click "comtent", click "Authored", click "discussions"

2) Have a quick glance at your discussion posts. The more of them have a blue rather than a green icon to the left, the better the chances for you to make new friends quickly.

3) Now check your authored discussion posts:

  3a) Have those still on the blue icon ("not answered") really not been resolved yet? If they are resolved, mark the correct answer as such, so others will also know, what the correct solution was. If none of the answers was correct, but it's still solved (or become obsolete) click "mark as assumed answered" and elaborate. Closing questions helps others to pick the right (unanswered) questions to contribute to. Thanks to Steffi Warnecke  for pointing out to me that I missed the "mark as correct" option in the firts version of this post.

  3b) If they are not yet answered: has another user offered a solution you haven't tried yet or asked for some further clarification of the problem, so he can help you? Well, you should follow up on this! Leaving it "unanswered" indicates you are still looking for a solution. Not picking up on another user's suggestion (if serious), is basically saying: "I'm still desparate for a solution, but as you are asking me to contribute to the solution of my own problem, I can't be bothered and anyway: I don't trust your solution, because I think you don't know your stuff.". How do you think this impacts your chances of getting help next time round.

  3c) This, which have been resolved: give feedback to contributors and let everybody know, what did the trick in the end. It's nice for those, who contributed, and others can learn from it as well. If you decide not to use a certain solution, say why ("Thanks for this suggestion. Unfortunately I'm not good enough at schema config to implement that, but we found this workaround XYZ and users are happy enough with it.")

4) Now, hopefully most of your discussions should have the green "answered" status, those unanswered are followed up on with any further information required, so the respective experts are probably figuring out your solution already and all contributors feel they have been dealing with a polite, respectful human being they would happily work with again.

Note: most people here help, because they like helping others. But to get a positive feeling out of the process, they need some kind of feedback. Even, if it's "This solution didn't work - it just brought this new error...", it still doesn't feel like they talk into a black hole.

Hence, if you are collaborative and polite, you'll be liked, even, if you are mostly asking questions and not yet answering many due to your level of experience. You'll still be respected as someone easy to work with and make friends along the way.

still here? go to step one from above now