We’re Celebrating our Adafruit Team this #LaborDay – Nick Normal from Community, Support & Publishing
You may already know Nick Normal from his prolific and popular posts on the Adafruit blog. He also may have assisted you in a matter of Adafruit customer support. Here’s a bit more about CSP Team Member Nick Normal:
Howdy! I’m Nick Normal and I’m with the Community Support & Publishing team here at Adafruit. We wrangle all the incoming customer support requests, as well as manage the blog & social media channels. I’ve been with Adafruit for just over a year now but I’ve been a fan for much longer, having been involved with the ‘arts-tech’ scene in NYC for well over a decade. What I love about Adafruit is our customer base, their excitement and enthusiasm for using our products to make the world around them fundamentally better and more interesting. Because of Adafruit’s diversity of staff, their skills and identities, I like to think of this company as a microcosm of NYC, of the world (i.e. humanity), and ultimately the maker movement – it’s an inspiring place full of amazing people!
Adafruit publishes a wide range of writing and video content, including interviews and reporting on the maker market and the wider technology world. Our standards page is intended as a guide to best practices that Adafruit uses, as well as an outline of the ethical standards Adafruit aspires to. While Adafruit is not an independent journalistic institution, Adafruit strives to be a fair, informative, and positive voice within the community – check it out here: adafruit.com/editorialstandards
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