About Gil Yehuda
Gil Yehuda is currently the Director of Open Source at Yahoo! Inc. where he is responsible for Yahoo!’s Open Source activities. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Gil was a Senior Analyst at Forrester Research where he covered the Enterprise 2.0 (Enterprise Social Media) marketplace and provided insight services related to information management, knowledge management, and collaboration on the intranet. Gil also provided independent consulting under the “GilYehuda.com” brand where he helped organizations with internal social collaboration and knowledge management challenges.
Gil is an well-known voice in the technology community. In 2010 Edelman (a global PR firm) listed Gil in the top ten most influential Industry Analysts on Twitter, SeekOmega.com listed Gil in the top 10 most influential bloggers in the Enterprise 2.0 marketplace, and Write.com listed Gil’s blog in the top 33 blogs on Innovation and 2.0. Gil has been keynote speaker and featured presenter at numerous conferences, and is the author of “Framework for 2.0 Adoption in the Enterprise” published by the 2.0 Adoption Council.
Gil worked at Fidelity Investments for 15 years where he was an Enterprise Architect and ran the .NET development community (of about 1000 developers worldwide). He established guidelines for the performance testing of XML Web Services and wrote the secure code guidelines for .NET developers. As one of the leading advocates for internal corporate source and consultants on their Open Source Support Center, he co-authored their Open Source policy. He also managed the Technology Directions process — an arm of the IT Governance organization which helped drive consistency of practice across 250 technology area across the corporation. Gil has a background in IT governance, internal communications, training, technology standards, and development. He has a degree in Artificial Intelligence, and worked at Xerox’s AI lab for 4 years.
More information about Gil’s work experiences is found on his LinkedIn profile. Gil was interviewed here by the enterprise2open blog, and is featured on many online publications. Feel free to reach out and join his LlinkedIn network and follow his Twitter stream.
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My name is Eric Cardeña Rodríguez. I’m planning a trip to Sillicon Valley from Mexico City for 15 students of one of the most prestigious universities in Mexico, Universidad Panamericana on the 5th or 6th of March.
The main purpose of the visit is to get to know how Yahoo do the things you do. Pablo Arvizu told me you could help me to get this personalized tour done.
The students are working really hard to get their Animation Degree and others to their Engineering in Information, so it would be incredible for them to know how great Yahoo is, how you do the things you do and to learn something unique from you. I understand that it’s very difficult for you to do this but we’re really looking forward to learn as much of you as we can.
It would be fantastic for the students to believe they can do great things as you do. Please consider this, I would appreciate it for life.
Sincerely yours,
Eric Cardena Rodríguez
Hi Gil,
I hope that I did not transpose your first and last name.
I served as the CKO of the Israeli Nuclear Research Center. Now I am on Sabbatical at Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva where I was aked to give a course in KM. I saw your interesting last blogs and would like to have your permission to quote some.
Khag Sameach
Eli
Eli
Thanks, I’m flattered that you find value in my blog and am glad for you to quote me. I publish this blog using the “Creative Commons 3.0 with attribution license”. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is a very permissive license that means that as long as you give me credit for my words, you can share them in your work. Simply include the link to my blog post.
Indeed, my last name is “Yehuda” — normally a Hebrew first name. There are people named “Yehuda Gil” including one who was somewhat famous — but I’m not at all related to any of them, of course.
I hope you enjoy your sabbatical and may you have a sweet new year.
Gil Yehuda
Hi Gil,
I liked very much your post: “Forming a Community and the Wine Party Problem”. I would like to use this story in my blog (in Hebrew). I will give you credit and add a link to your blog.
Regards
Dan Noam
Dan
You can lift excerpts from it to quote (with attribution) in your blogs. Please just link back to the original blog post. I see that I’m on your blogroll. Thanks!
If you wish, you can run an automated translation on my blog (e.g. Google Translate or Bablefish) — but I’m never sure that those capture the writing style very well. The best bet is to take an excerpt if it’s not too long, or just link to the post and then share your thoughts about it in your blog. I’m honored that you find my content worth sharing with others and I am very glad that you do. I publish my blog under a “creative commons” license which simply means that I encourage you to share this content with others — as long as you maintain my authorship credit on the parts I wrote.
Thanks!
Gil Yehuda
Good luck Gil. I wish you the best.
Norm.
Hi Gil, I am looking forward to being in touch soon about Socialcast news…and wishing you all the best!
My best,
Brooke
http://www.socialcast.com
Simone
Thanks for your note, and your careful attention to details. I appreciate it. I love our “humanity” — the fact that we are imperfect and make mistakes, and yet accomplish so much.
Dear Gil,
I just want to wish you success in this new endeavor. Your web is a pleasure to navigate, even for a laywoman like myself, for the interesting viewpoints expressed.
Would you mind if I indicate a couple of typing errors on your “About” page?
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