Daisy Frenzy by NinaBella.  Check it out!

If you have some time there’s a few things that you can do to show the Firefox Love!

1. Retweet the official @firefox tweet.
2. Vote for us in these categories:
   • Best Major Desktop Browser
   • Best Independent Browser
   • Best Mobile Browser
   • Best Browser Theme
   • Best Overall Add-On (Non-Security)
   • Best Privacy/Security Add-On
   • Best User Script
3. And of course – tell other people to vote!

Finalists are determined solely by the number of nominations received (the top 5 products/features will make it to the finalist round) and voting will be open to the public starting in February. Winners will be announced on March 1, 2010 and will be featured throughout the About.com network and will receive a logo to display on their Web site.

This is my second product launch since coming onboard at Mozilla.  Product launches normally involve lack of sleep and getting into the office super early.  This launch was special for me because I got to be involved in two really cool projects:

1. Air Mozilla Streaming during Launch
2. Personas: What’s Your Style? Photo Booth

Air Mozilla Streaming During Launch

We wanted to create a collaborative way to share the excitement of our 3.6 launch with the community.  Thanks to the help of Mary, Asa, Jono and Atul we were able to pull together 2.5 hours of great content on Air Mozilla.  We had cameras broadcasting both the Toronto and Mountain View offices, which allowed people to ask questions through the IRC #airmozilla channel.

In addition to the action between Toronto and Mountain View, Jono hosted a number of wonderful 5-10 minute interviews.  Some of the interviews we conducted were:

• Firefox Engineering – Crashkill & Improved stability with Damon Sicore
• Evangelism – Chris Blizzard
• Web Development – Plugin Updater with Mike Morgan
• Marketing – Melissa Shapiro (PR) and  Tara Shahian (Making of the Personas video & “What’s your style campaign?”)
• Build and Release Engineering with John O’Duinn and Lukas Blakk
  • A look at our process
• Personas with Ryan Doherty and Myk Melez
• Firebug with Rob Campbell – v1.5 released and compatible with 3.6!
• QA with Tony Chung and  Juan Becerra

This was a lot of fun and got the entire community involved.  We peaked at around 200 people watching through our air.mozilla.org stream and I am looking forward to putting together something similar for our next launch!

Personas: What’s Your Style? Photo Booth

One of the new features of Firefox 3.6 is that Personas are baked into the browser.  This allows you to easily customize your web browser right “out of the box”.  Thanks to a few of our amazing marketing community members, we started a pretty cool campaign where you can take a photo of yourself with your favorite Persona.

I spent part of today wrangling fellow coworkers to pose with their favorite Persona by setting up a MacBook Pro with an iSight camera and using Photo Booth to grab photos.  This was a very easy to way to get everyone involved and we got a great collection of photos!  Check it out:

This setup can easily be duplicated anywhere – think coffee shops!

For more information on this check out the Spread Firefox page (and while your at it watch our cool Personas video!)

I know I’m a bit biased but this has to be one of my favorite Jetpacks!

Most memes on Facebook, a blog, or any other social network are point blank, pretty silly and a waste of time.  However, over the past few days I have seen a new “meme” going around that has been nothing short of inspirational and a great way to kick off 2010.

On December 26th, Nukeador (Spain) posted his 5 objectives for the Mozilla Community in 2010 that he wishes to accomplish:

• 5 objectivos para la comunidad de Mozilla en 2010 in ES
• 5 objectives for the Mozilla Community in 2010 quick Google translation to English

This has now spread through a number of people from the Mozilla Hispano community including participation from Guillermo Movia (Argentina) and Lourdes Castillo (Paraguay).  I would love to see this meme continue to branch out in Latin America, but also to include participation from the rest of the world.  When you do post your 5 objectives, please add a comment to my blog with the URL.

I have to say I am truly inspired by this meme, and feel fortunate to work at Mozilla.  I’m looking forward to 2010 and helping push these goals (especially the marketing ones) forward in 2010!

EDIT: More Blog Posts on Objectives as they come in:

• Percy Cabello (Peru)
• Eduardo Escárez (Chile)
• Hernán Colmeiro (Argentina)
• Guillermo López Leal (Spain)

The pack names are quite humorous and the descriptions a lot of fun to read, so if you are looking for some great deals head over to the International Store and check them out:

• The Workout Pack
• The Champions Pack
• The Portable Pack
• The Office Pack
• The Good Morning Pack
• The Rainy Day Pack

Tristan took a wonderful picture of this when he was out at the Mountain View Office for All-Hands last week, and I couldn’t help but re-blog this photo. This is without a doubt one of my favorite places in the office to work (aside from my desk).

I love the light that pours in and being able to grab a cup of coffee, laptop, mouse, headphones and a notepad and be able to push through some work while looking occasionally out the window at the trees and bustling Mountain View.

Last week was a time of full throttle, non-stop action week of all Mozilla all the time.  I would trade the experiences for anything in the world.  Monday – Wednesday marked my first all-hands as part of Mozilla.  I had always heard of these events through my husband, Ryan Doherty, but to experience it is a completely different thing.  Monday – Wednesday colleagues from all over the world descended on Mountain View as we caught up, discussed future objectives and socialize.

One of the most important things for me is to have face-time with co-workers – it completely will change a working relationship.  Many people I work with I simply know by their IRC handle, e-mail address or a small picture on our internal phonebook.  We were lucky in August to have a company marketing on-site but to have almost every_single_person employed by Mozilla on premise was amazing.  Every day driving into work I would park in the P1 garage and my hands would start to shake as I badged in and rode the elevator up 3 stories – it wasn’t nerves, but more, “OMG I can’t wait for this day to get started!”

In addition to many days of meetings and brainstorming, it was so nice to learn about what other people within Mozilla do.  We are heads down in our work so many months throughout the year it is refreshing to spend some time diving into other departments work and  realize just how very smart and talented my colleagues are.

I also really enjoyed being able to spend some social time with my co-workers at dinner on Tuesday night and at the California Academy of Sciences on Wednesday.  Sleep?  Not so much!

After 3 rigorous days of All-Hands, it was time to jump directly into Add-on-Con.  I had been helping to organize Mozilla’s participation in this event since late August, so I was looking forward to seeing this event in action.  On Thursday night we held a pre event workshop at Mozilla to let add-on developers socialize, enjoy some good tacos and drinks and, learn about 3.6 compatibility and mobile porting.  We had approximately 60 people join us and it was a great precursor to Add-on-Con the next day.

Getting an early start on Friday, I was at the Computer History Museum to setup our booth at Add-on-Con at 7:30 in the morning.

Photo Credit: Adam Jackson

We had a great presence at Add-on-Con with many different Mozilla employees participating in sessions and keynotes:

• Keynote:
  • Opening Keynote: Do Add-ons Need a Market Place (Justin Scott)
  • Closing Keynote: Future of the Web Browser with Mike Shaver
• Business Marketing Track:
  • The Future of the Firefox Add-on Ecosystem (Aza Raskin, Justin Scott, Chris Finke)
• Technical Track:
  • Taking Flight with Jetpack: Next Gen Add-ons for Firefox (Aza Raskin)
  • Mobile Firefox Add-on Development (Mark Finkle)

A special thanks to Robert Reich, for organizing yet another wonderful conference as well as Justin Scott, Mike Shaver, Chris Finke, Aza Raskin and Mark Finkle for their participation on our numerous panels and talks throughout the day.

Photo Credit: Adam Jackson

After a week of such amazing activities, I’m looking forward to our next all-hands and Add-on-Con in 2010.

However, there is still time to get involved and choose a design winner!  With so many great designs to choose from I thought I would point out some of my favorites.

To vote just create an account on the Creative Collective and choose your favorite and click “vote”.  Voting ends Wednesday, December 16th!