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Gibson CEO has a special place on their forum for direct communication.
http://4henry.gibson.com/...96a018e9be528069c01b40 Very cool... Gibson's CEO has his own area on their forum where you can talk directly with him. Would be cool if all companies had this on their forums.
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redbarchetta
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Re:Gibson CEO has a special place on their forum for direct communication.
March 15, 13 10:57 AM
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I realized that I probably should not have posted this here, but, I had a reason. I've read a lot of posts where folks wish they had better exposure into what's going on with Cakewalk, from reported defects to feature requests to the direction the company is taking with the VS-Studio line. Seems like it would be really nice if some of the high up's would take the time to come here and talk to the customers.
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Re:Gibson CEO has a special place on their forum for direct communication.
March 15, 13 11:03 AM
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If Cakewalk were a tiny company, maybe, but I prefer that whoever is CEO at Cakewalk spend his/her time worrying about more important things than details.
AndI seriously doubt you'll find anyone at Cakewalk willing to talk about employee layoffs :-)
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Re:Gibson CEO has a special place on their forum for direct communication.
March 15, 13 11:07 AM
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Well.. Yeah I doubt that they would come here and talk about layoffs... It was just an example of things that have happen since I've become a member. Gibson is no small company. Also, I doubt that the Gibson CEO spends his entire day on the forum. It's probabaly a once in a while type thing.
The point is, I like the open communication style where you have access to ask questions directly and hear it directly from upper management.
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Re:Gibson CEO has a special place on their forum for direct communication.
March 15, 13 11:11 AM
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Paul P
If Cakewalk were a tiny company, maybe, but I prefer that whoever is CEO at Cakewalk spend his/her time worrying about more important things than details.
AndI seriously doubt you'll find anyone at Cakewalk willing to talk about employee layoffs :-)
Cakewalk is a very tiny company. I certainly hope the CEO is worrying about details. Even if Cakewalk were a large company, the CEO not worrying about detail is where you get corporate disconnect and an unresponsive company.
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Re:Gibson CEO has a special place on their forum for direct communication.
March 15, 13 12:03 AM
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vintagevibe : "Cakewalk is a tiny company."
Ok, I really have no idea. I would have thought maybe 50-100 employees.
I was thinking more along the lines of boutique type operation where the CEO is also the one doing most of the work :-)
It looks like Henry's idea fizzled out after only a few months.
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Re:Gibson CEO has a special place on their forum for direct communication.
March 15, 13 12:08 AM
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vintagevibe : "Cakewalk is a tiny company."
Ok, I really have no idea. I would have thought maybe 50-100 employees.
I was thinking more along the lines of boutique type operation where the CEO is also the one doing most of the work :-)
It looks like Henry's idea fizzled out after only a few months.
Gibson is pretty big so I'm not surprised that they had a hard time keeping up with emails to the CEO. I'm thinking that Cakewalk is about 50 49 employees but actually it's hard to know how things work since Roland bought them.
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Re:Gibson CEO has a special place on their forum for direct communication.
March 15, 13 12:13 AM
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I would think Cakewalk is larger than that, between sales, engineering, managment, quality control and support. I could be wrong. Maybe a lot of that is rolled up into Roland, but even then, between Roland and Cakewalk I would guess a lot more than 50 or so.
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March 15, 13 12:30 AM
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According to LinkedIn, Cakewalk employs 51-200 people.
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March 15, 13 12:46 AM
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The point is, I like the open communication style where you have access to ask questions directly and hear it directly from upper management. Most all public traded companies provide a question and answer period during the quarterly earnings-results conference call. Buy some stock and get invited. You’ll need a translator. :-)
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Re:Gibson CEO has a special place on their forum for direct communication.
March 15, 13 12:54 AM
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redbarchetta
Well.. Yeah I doubt that they would come here and talk about layoffs... It was just an example of things that have happen since I've become a member. Gibson is no small company. Also, I doubt that the Gibson CEO spends his entire day on the forum. It's probabaly a once in a while type thing.
The point is, I like the open communication style where you have access to ask questions directly and hear it directly from upper management.
Henry, hasn't responded in over two years. I was watching the board @Gibson a few months ago and someone was asking, beggng, pleading with him to respond, to no avail. Those posts have since been deleted. As to why its even still up is beyond me since it seems like a dead thread.
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Re:Gibson CEO has a special place on their forum for direct communication.
March 15, 13 1:00 PM
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Na, I'll stick to being a consumer. ;)
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March 15, 13 1:02 PM
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redbarchetta
Well.. Yeah I doubt that they would come here and talk about layoffs... It was just an example of things that have happen since I've become a member. Gibson is no small company. Also, I doubt that the Gibson CEO spends his entire day on the forum. It's probabaly a once in a while type thing.
The point is, I like the open communication style where you have access to ask questions directly and hear it directly from upper management.
Henry, hasn't responded in over two years. I was watching the board @Gibson a few months ago and someone was asking, beggng, pleading with him to respond, to no avail. Those posts have since been deleted. As to why its even still up is beyond me since it seems like a dead thread.
Huh, I don't visit their board, I was browsing this morning, came across it. Seemed like a cool idea. Too bad it died.
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Re:Gibson CEO has a special place on their forum for direct communication.
March 15, 13 2:47 PM
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Unless it is a small operation you ain't likely to talk w/ the head man. You most likely will get secretaries or assistants to whomever you get a hold of. The best way is to write a physical letter. I've gotten responses that way from the publisher of the local dallas paper (personal in a top 10 market), GM's Frank Luntz (secretary, but still not bad after I bragged in the letter how I walked away from a hwy crash that totalled the car), tech people and President of Presonus, US PR head of Yamaha after writing the US office w/ complaints.
This is about products, not company policy. Gibson's idea was a good one, but not practical one, I'm afraid. As for Cake's firing, I don't suppose any of us would want to discuss our family finances and ... um ... troubles in an open forum. How 'bout a marriage counselor working on an open forum. That ought to go over big (actually, it might, considering the proliferation of reality shows. So you guys are witnesses - if you see something like that we can sue ...) Not to mention legal problems stemming from that. of course, feel free to write Boston about the firings. I'm sure you'd get a letter stating they can't talk about it.
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Re:Gibson CEO has a special place on their forum for direct communication.
March 15, 13 3:07 PM
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of course, feel free to write Boston about the firings. I'm sure you'd get a letter stating they can't talk about it.
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Again as I already mentioned, it was just an example, i would not expect the company to talk about it, nor do I think it would be professional. I was still half asleep when i wrote that post. *EDIT* Too many have commented on that one aspect of the point I was trying to make so I removed it and replaced with reference to the V-Studio
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Re:Gibson CEO has a special place on their forum for direct communication.
March 15, 13 4:10 PM
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In the early days of the board Greg Hendershot would post from time to time. Also there have been frequent posts by Cakewalk CTO's.
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March 15, 13 6:39 PM
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Red, no offence meant. I too, was talking generally. No company talks too much about the internal workings or their next product, esp. a software company.
But if you have a specific complaint, companies do respond to phyiscal mail, even if it is only a "thank you for your letter" form letter.
And yea, Vintage, Cake higher-ups used to drop by, but it was ususally a fairly specific or constrained topic. Cool, tho. I just don't see how an open thread to the president would work for any legnth of time.
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Re:Gibson CEO has a special place on their forum for direct communication.
March 15, 13 6:54 PM
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Red, no offence meant. I too, was talking generally. No company talks too much about the internal workings or their next product, esp. a software company.
But if you have a specific complaint, companies do respond to phyiscal mail, even if it is only a "thank you for your letter" form letter.
And yea, Vintage, Cake higher-ups used to drop by, but it was ususally a fairly specific or constrained topic. Cool, tho. I just don't see how an open thread to the president would work for any legnth of time.
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Hey AT, none taken at all! I just needed to change my original post, I think it was poorly writen in the first place. I should never have made reference to the the unfortunite happenings. Too many people latched onto that and I can see now it really took away from what I was getting at. And yes, having direct contact with the CEO may not be best, but, some of the middle management might be cool. I for one would like to know what the future holds with the V-Studios... I don't see myself buying in within the next two months. But maybe six months down the road, who knows.
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