Simon Tomes | Activities
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Isn't it great: community builders are educators and in-person events are back
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What the seagull? Learn how educators, boundaries, and accessible events shape community building, unpacked through bird-themed lessons.
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MoTaCon Vibes - People I Met at MoTaCon 2025 — Looking Forward to More in 2026!
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We had a great community conversations today:
we started out with seagull management, then parachute journalism, which led on to thinking about community in terms of birds
the 3Cs from Claudia — Ca...
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TWiC Community Conversations
awarded Andy Claremont for:
TWiC Community Conversations
awarded TWiC — This Week in Community for:
TWiC Community Conversations
awarded Rosie Sherry for:
TWiC Community Conversations
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MoTaCon Vibes - People I Met at MoTaCon 2025 — Looking Forward to More in 2026!
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Member joined TWiQ — This Week in Quality chapter
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Thoughts before MoTaCon: Into hell and back again
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Spoke at TWiC — This Week in Community
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Hosted TWiC — This Week in Community
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MoTaCon Vibes - People I Met at MoTaCon 2025 — Looking Forward to More in 2026!
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It's all about the MoTaCon Vibes - This video is a collection of moments and memories with some of the amazing people I met at MoTaCon 2025.I met so many more people but somehow I missed to have se...
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Throwback Wednesday: The stage is set
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TWiC Community Conversations
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We had a great community conversations today:
we started out with seagull management, then parachute journalism, which led on to thinking about community in terms of birds
the 3Cs from Claudia — Ca...
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An opportunity to focus and reflect on the many positives of the MoTaverse.
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Isn't it great? The counterintuitive truth behind the MoTaverse's Membership Model
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Isn't it great? The counterintuitive truth behind the MoTaverse's Membership Model
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"Every stop is a JIRA story."
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New signage on the Thameslink spotted last night. Made me think of Jira stories. Can’t switch off this engineering mindset apparently!
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Every stop is a story
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Every stop is a story
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Feedback from the people who use a testing platform every day matters to us. In G2’s Fall 2026 Reports, ACCELQ earned 20 badges across global, regional, and market segment categories.You’ll find AC...
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ACCELQ Earned 20 Badges in G2’s Fall 2026 Reports.
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ACCELQ Earned 20 Badges in G2’s Fall 2026 Reports.
awarded Guljeet Nagpaul for:
ACCELQ Earned 20 Badges in G2’s Fall 2026 Reports.
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Throwback Wednesday: The stage is set
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20th September 2023, Stanley Dock, Liverpool. TestBash 2023.I took this photo just after 7am, before the room filled up and various folks took to the stage. Funny what an empty stage looks like.&nb...
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This one is 10 years old!It's tradition that at the end of a conference day there is an allocated time slot for any attendee to get up on stage for 99 seconds.Here is Guna Petrova at TestBash Brigh...
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Throw back Wednesday! Guna, 99 Second Talk, TestBash 2016
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Throw back Wednesday! Guna, 99 Second Talk, TestBash 2016
awarded Guna Petrova for:
Throw back Wednesday! Guna, 99 Second Talk, TestBash 2016
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Claude Certifications 2026: Exams, Preparation & My Experience
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"It's absolutely amazing! I'm so pleased we can offer community as a service. Isn't it great."
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For years I've watched many an entrepreneur trying to build a competitor to a certain event platform that helps people 'meet up' . Every single one of them has failed. None of them gained any tract...
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😊 Isn't it great that 220+ people are gathering in Chapters this week
awarded Rosie Sherry for:
😊 Isn't it great that 220+ people are gathering in Chapters this week
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Thanks for choosing MoTaCon. Great to see you make the most of your new professional membership. See you there!
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Oh the anxcitement! Chaos-driven development, AI coding skills, and a new look profile page
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Oh the anxcitement! Chaos-driven development, AI coding skills, and a new look profile page
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Small things are worth sharing
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Thoughts before MoTaCon: Into hell and back again
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"You got this, Ady! 💪🏻
Enjoy the rest of your time in Fuerteventura."
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Small things are worth sharing
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It’s 3pm on Monday the 14th of September, and I’m in Fuertaventura in the Canary Islands on holiday. I don’t normally look at anything on holiday. I delete apps to switch off, although I’m not a si...
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Will I have 5,000 stars by MoTaCon?
awarded Ady Stokes for:
Will I have 5,000 stars by MoTaCon?
Simon Tomes
Community Lead at MoTaverse
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Hello, I'm Simon. Since 2003 I've had various roles in testing, tech leadership and coaching. I believe in the power of collaboration, creativity and community. 🎓 MoT-STEC qualified. I get real joy working with and supporting our wonderful MoTaverse community.
“Thanks for making me feel so confident about myself.” | “I'm so grateful for all you do in the MoTaverse community, I learn so much as a result!” | “A simple chat with Simon in person absolutely changed everything.” | “Simon is one of the best people that I've ever met to have conversations with. He's so grounded in his way of thinking and articulates his thoughts so well and his feelings and his knowledge about community and everything.”
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