Participating on the element14 Community

Hi Sagar,

As a global distributor, Premier Farnell manages relationships with hundreds of suppliers, vendors, and strategic partners. You've probably noticed that we have representatives from dozens of suppliers here on element14—companies like the Raspberry Pi Foundation, Freescale, Texas Instruments, and many more.

Is there a list somewhere of these representatives?  I have tried using the "filter by company" feature at

    http://www.element14.com/community/people

but it seems to list only companies starting with the letter 'a'.

Hey Coder - there's a known issue with the people sort feature on the Community.  I can direct you to a list here on the Community as well - keep in mind not all of them may be listed. 

Also, feel free to check out our Store sites where we list these partnerships as well.  Here's some quick links for you for the UK and US:

Farnell element14 (UK): http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/brand/manufacturers.jsp

Newark element14: http://www.newark.com/jsp/brand/mfr.jsp

Thanks, I noticed that to when I had a look.  I'll share with the team that manages this area on the Community.

Nicole,

   Do your supplier agreements include any provision for suppliers to

identify themselves as suppliers when they participate on the forums here?

Hi Coder - I'm double checking with our Supplier Manager on Community, but almost certain we don't.  However, I've seen some suppliers share this information in their profiles if they chose to disclose.

Thanks Nicole.

It's certainly helpful when a member's claimed "type" (internal/external/supplier) is accurate,

so one doesn't feel the need to resort to "forensic stylometry", as described here:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=5315

to sort out who the suppliers are.

Just got confirmation to what I suspected - we do not require disclosure from suppliers.   The "Type" field in a member's profile is something automatically assigned and the individual member can not change or control (unless they change their email address) as it's based on the email address they used to register.  For example, anyone who registers with an email address assigned to employees from element14 would be marked as "internal" like you see on my profile.  If a supplier registers their account with a "Gmail" email account the "type" would be reflected as "external" instead of "supplier".

Just got confirmation to what I suspected - we do not require disclosure from suppliers.   The "Type" field in a member's profile is something automatically assigned and the individual member can not change or control (unless they change their email address) as it's based on the email address they used to register.  For example, anyone who registers with an email address assigned to employees from element14 would be marked as "internal" like you see on my profile.  If a supplier registers their account with a "Gmail" email account the "type" would be reflected as "external" instead of "supplier".

Ah, that would explain why Drew shows up as "External". 

It might be a good idea to somehow change that to Internal to avoid any confusion.

Similarly, Cabe has been described here:

http://www.element14.com/community/community/members/blog/2013/06/21/element14-communitys-top-10-most-helpful-and-amazing-members

as "one of element14 Community’s official bloggers".  Does that mean he is really Internal?

'fustini' is external because I use my personal email address for it.  'fustiniadmin' is tied to my Premier Farnell email address and I use it when I'm posting/replying in an official capacity.

Yes, I have that figured out, but I think it may be confusing for someone

who doesn't understand that Internal/External refers to where your email goes,

rather than your employer.