Marilyn Pratt began writing code in the early 80’s and has worked for SAP in the Americas since 1999, where she served as a senior instructor for SAP Education, delivering courses in the Advanced Business Application Programming Language (ABAP) to thousands of developers and consultants. Marilyn was one SAP Education’s earliest adopters and promoters of online learning and rich media learning content, facilitating and moderating online training events. Community is part of Marilyn’s DNA having lived for over a 15 year period of time in a socialistic communal environment, where she served as IT director and also was a grassroots environmental advocate. In 2004 Marilyn became a community manager and content strategist for the SAP Developer Network and in 2006 helped launch the Business Process Expert Community, where she is presently the community evangelist and participant facilitator. In this context she walks the tightrope between the old paradigm of enterprises wanting to control messages and the new reality of engaging with a participatory and open ecosystem model. Marilyn holds a master’s degree in Adult Education and Distance Learning as well as a fine arts degree in professional theater directing. Social responsibility and sustainability topics are among her passions and she can be found talking about them here and at http://grannimari.blogspot.com and her SAP Community Network blog
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