- by Anirban Dutta, Web Producer
Thanks Blake for leading me on to this.
Whether I am blogging or coding I always am on music. The tunes lubricate my whole productivity mechanism.
This post is for those of you who like to groove while you work.
I became highly motivated from Alena's last post and decided to get myself rolling since my personal blogging outage.
So to get started I took a stroll around the hall with my ipod.
When at the gates of our Community, the first thing that you got to do is to get yourself registered as a user.
If you've arrived as an experienced community chief, there's high levels of action hormones flowing in your blood, we have an elaborate webform to ensure that your identity is well accounted for. A dose of Megadeth is already tipping your equalizer bars. Thrash metal is something I have always naturally attributed to the moment when you've crouched tight for a leap into the action ahead. You face your own music if your login credentials are verified to be inappropriate, so the song might as well be one of your die hard favorites.
Place to start is the Communities home page
I would consider this place as the concierge of the entire Community - you might expect an instrumental fill the air to complement the classic oak interiors, a Chopin, Beethoven, Paganinni or any the masters of concerto. This place showcases the building highlights - like the hotel floorplan. There is a Featured content section which gives you a contemporary pick of a video or audio podcast from the industry illuminaries.
First stop - the BMCDN room
"Welcome to the BMC Developer Network, where members who leverage BMC technology can find resources to solve critical business problems. This community provides forums, blogs, documents, and downloads that enhance the value of your BMC Software solutions."
This is a busy zone with lots of activitiy. I would rather compare it to the NY Stock Exchange.
There are games to play, party's to attend and forums to participate and you collect points for your engagement.
So nice chicken pickin country music a picture of floors always filled with scuffling feet.
"The About BMC Communities area is your place to find help, frequently asked questions and offer feedback on the BMC Communities. You'll also discover employment opportunities in the technology field."
This lounge is very contemporary because of its drapery of recent content where you have panels of Popular Tags, Recent Activity and a list of Top Participants for our Community which might suggest this place could have a lounge track like Alphawezen "Speed of Light", or a DJ shadow track
something that has a drone but also gives you a feel of being in progression with times.
"Welcome to the IT Management Community, where business and technology intersect."
This is serious stuff and Lots of it in the offering. This is the business center of the hotel.
This is the place to hang around if you want to keep a tab on the daily pulse of the IT business. So be prepared with your gadgets and a notebook when you are around here, music cannot be too much of a flurry - at the most I can suggest the ticking of a metronome or a basic instrumental instructional .midi file soundtrack. So you wont find lofty speakers around here.
The Thought Leadership Council
"The Thought Leadership Council is composed of individuals who are industry experts in a variety of strategic areas that impact IT organizations and their business customers."
So this is basically a room for great thoughts, this is our Spa. Sound of conch and wind instruments - this place would have the oriental ambience. This place is really the pagoda for industry knowledge so I'd imagine a backdrop of a Japanese garden and the music to go along with it.
"Enterpriseleadership.org is a thought-leadership forum to help Global Fortune 1000 C-level executives improve their business impact of information technology in delivering products and services to customers and other constituencies; enhancing improved business processes, and enabling of individual productivity and group productivity."
This is a place where the human intellect is music itself. As the site features podcasts, the audio-out of your sound system can only contain the wisdom of the great thought leaders of our industry, not to mention the intro and the outro bits to the podcasts. There are articles to read as well and if you are like me, need an excuse to swing to the beats, try some Buddha Bar, or new kid in the scene of lounge music - Ryan Farish - and let all the wisdom dawn in on you.
This is again a massive arena, it is a community in a community, like a China town within your city. Bustling with activity this place demands rich engaging music, the likes of John Mayer or a Stevie Ray Vaughn blues.
"(TAP) Private Community - where members who leverage BMC technology can find assistance in building solutions that solve critical business problems."
This is again a thought provoking room. Where ideas and technologies combine to give rise to new solutions. This place is much like the bar where bitters, fruit, soda, ice, sugar, honey, milk, are all mixed to serve new cocktails. A dash of Indian classical fused with Western to fire up your drink. You cannot tie down the ambience to a particular genre but that is the case when highly creative minds come together.
"This Directory features the entire community of BMC Partners - Strategic Alliances, Solution Providers, Consulting Partners, Government and Education Partners, Technology Partners and BSM Certified Partners. The BMC Partner Network includes Partners with extensive IT solutions expertise and geographic coverage."
This place is the speciality restaurant with an elaborate menu. the offerings have been put together by years of culinary experience and is well structured in accordance to the orientation of taste. The theme to this restaurant should hence be pure and time tested. I'll leave this part to have the current track on your play-list. And if you are out of ideas, try some Tommy Emmanuel.
This is the entertainment room of our hotel and has an engaging audio visual experience to what our partners and customers have to say about their experiences with BMC. So that is filling the room here. If thats not, Collective Soul is - let music be the reason 
There is a growing collection of blogs, articles and podcasts that offer the richness of a Pink Floyd melody, lots of stuff to participate and engage in, forums to attend and trails to pick up. And if you want to get down straight to business, just whistle your favorite tune, tap on your desk, see how our typing habits has made us all into musicians of some extent. So when you feel like you've something to add to the burgeoning conversations in this place, just log on, hit that play button on your player and let your thoughts trickle like the notes of Musica.
Music is such an inspiration and pleasant insistent distraction; I enjoyed composing this post with words and music and I hope you have a tuneful stay at our Communities hotel.
Till next time, this is your DJ Anirban from BMC Communities, signing off.
