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I guess it’s no secret, but I haven’t exactly spread it around the AFOL world
quite yet. So it’s time - more than time - to announce that I’ve taken a
position with The LEGO Group. My new role is Internet Content Manager for
BIONICLE, Racers, and Technic product lines.
This is the second time I’ve gone up for the job, the first interview was
chronicled in BrickJournal issue 4
(http://www.bzpower.com/Imaging/stories/Brickjournal4.pdf#page=81). It took an
extra year and a half, but I finally managed to schmooze my way in.
I started in Denmark last week, and I’ll be doing a significant amount of
travelling. The job itself is very nifty and busy, but I’m enjoying every
minute. I’d better, since it’s a finite contract - I’m filling in for the
previous webmaster (webmistress, really) who’s on maternity leave. So I’ll be
bouncing back and forth for the rest of 2007 and all of 2008.
I suppose I could post this as an ‘official’ LEGO announcement, but frankly I
haven’t managed to have The Talk about community interaction with the right
people within LEGO yet. So I’m posting this as Kelly McKiernan, Private Citizen,
not to be confused with an official LEGO communication. I don’t know yet if the
LEGO logo will appear on this post - it’s not supposed to. If it does, please
disregard it.
For the record, I’ve resigned from my admin position at BZPower to avoid any
potential conflict of interest. I will continue to run LEGOFan (and since one of
my desks is about 5 feet from Jan Beyer, that should now be much easier) and
ILENN - inasmuch as the latter needs running.
Just thought a few of you would like to know.
Kelly McKiernan
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In lugnet.announce, Kelly McKiernan wrote:
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I guess it’s no secret, but I haven’t exactly spread it around the AFOL world
quite yet. So it’s time - more than time - to announce that I’ve taken a
position with The LEGO Group. My new role is Internet Content Manager for
BIONICLE, Racers, and Technic product lines.
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For the record, I’ve resigned from my admin position at BZPower to avoid any
potential conflict of interest. I will continue to run LEGOFan (and since one
of my desks is about 5 feet from Jan Beyer, that should now be much easier)
and ILENN - inasmuch as the latter needs running.
Just thought a few of you would like to know.
Kelly McKiernan
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Hey, congratulations.
I was wondering about LegoFan.org though - every time I’ve been to that site
it’s just one page with the names of the current ambassadors on it. Is there
some other content on that site I’m not aware of, and if so, how do I get to it?
Thanks,
Rob
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In lugnet.announce, Kelly McKiernan wrote:
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I guess it’s no secret, but I haven’t exactly spread it around the AFOL world
quite yet. So it’s time - more than time - to announce that I’ve taken a
position with The LEGO Group. My new role is Internet Content Manager for
BIONICLE, Racers, and Technic product lines.
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Congratulations, Kelly, and good luck!!
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In lugnet.general, Rob Ross wrote:
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I was wondering about LegoFan.org though - every time I’ve been to that site
it’s just one page with the names of the current ambassadors on it. Is there
some other content on that site I’m not aware of, and if so, how do I get to
it?
Thanks,
Rob
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Hi Rob,
Several community leaders are working on creating temporary LEGOFan.org pages.
We are planning to have these up fairly soon. Unfortunately all old data was
lost several months ago when the server and backup both crashed at the same
time. This means that all content has to be created again. Once the temporary
site is live, we will announce it on the major fan sites like Lugnet. If you
have any suggestions of content you would like to see on LEGOFan, please send me
an email. Thanks.
Ben Ellermann
LEGOFan Team
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In lugnet.announce, Kelly McKiernan wrote:
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I guess it’s no secret, but I haven’t exactly spread it around the AFOL world
quite yet. So it’s time - more than time - to announce that I’ve taken a
position with The LEGO Group. My new role is Internet Content Manager for
BIONICLE, Racers, and Technic product lines.
This is the second time I’ve gone up for the job, the first interview was
chronicled in BrickJournal issue 4
(http://www.bzpower.com/Imaging/stories/Brickjournal4.pdf#page=81). It took
an extra year and a half, but I finally managed to schmooze my way in.
I started in Denmark last week, and I’ll be doing a significant amount of
travelling. The job itself is very nifty and busy, but I’m enjoying every
minute. I’d better, since it’s a finite contract - I’m filling in for the
previous webmaster (webmistress, really) who’s on maternity leave. So I’ll be
bouncing back and forth for the rest of 2007 and all of 2008.
I suppose I could post this as an ‘official’ LEGO announcement, but frankly I
haven’t managed to have The Talk about community interaction with the right
people within LEGO yet. So I’m posting this as Kelly McKiernan, Private
Citizen, not to be confused with an official LEGO communication. I don’t know
yet if the LEGO logo will appear on this post - it’s not supposed to. If it
does, please disregard it.
For the record, I’ve resigned from my admin position at BZPower to avoid any
potential conflict of interest. I will continue to run LEGOFan (and since one
of my desks is about 5 feet from Jan Beyer, that should now be much easier)
and ILENN - inasmuch as the latter needs running.
Just thought a few of you would like to know.
Kelly McKiernan
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Over a year maternity leave? I’m moving to Denmark (and changing sex!)
congratulations
Tim
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Tim David wrote:
> Over a year maternity leave? I'm moving to Denmark (and changing sex!)
Over here it's 4 years. That's probably one of the few 'inventions' of
socialism I can agree with. (Both women/men can go on the leave, I'd
estimate it's about ~95% women a 5% men right now, but the number of men
is growing).
--
Jindroush
www.kostky.org - For Czech LEGO fans.
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In lugnet.announce, Kelly McKiernan wrote:
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I guess it’s no secret, but I haven’t exactly spread it around the AFOL world
quite yet. So it’s time - more than time - to announce that I’ve taken a
position with The LEGO Group. My new role is Internet Content Manager for
BIONICLE, Racers, and Technic product lines.
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Very cool Kelly, congrats! Hope you enjoy your term.
Janey “Red Brick”
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In lugnet.announce, Kelly McKiernan wrote:
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yet if the LEGO logo will appear on this post - it’s not supposed to. If it
does, please disregard it.
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It will show up at any time you use a lego.com adress.
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of my desks is about 5 feet from Jan Beyer,
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So see you in Skaerbaek next week?
Leg Godt!
-René
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In lugnet.general, Rene Hoffmeister wrote:
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In lugnet.announce, Kelly McKiernan wrote:
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yet if the LEGO logo will appear on this post - it’s not supposed to. If it
does, please disregard it.
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It will show up at any time you use a lego.com adress.
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Dave Eaton sent some instructions on how to work around it, haven’t had a chance
to do that yet.
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of my desks is about 5 feet from Jan Beyer,
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So see you in Skaerbaek next week?
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Hope so, I’d love to attend, although I’m in the middle of 2008 planning
documentation so it might be tough to break away. But fingers crossed!
Kelly
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