Office Depot Deceptive Advertising
For being a netbook-fan I admit I am in the market for a super-slim lightweight laptop. The market has evolved, the current slimbooks are only slightly more expensive than netbooks, and I find the 13.3” screen size an ideal compromise between portability and straining my eyes with the tiny screens. So I was quite happy [...]
Marc Benioff Has a New Job
Reporter for Forbes Watch him interview TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington on the iPad. (Cross-posted @ CloudAve)
‘Pain chains’ and the IT Devil’s Triangle
The Devil’s Triangle and “pain chains” bind together enterprise customers, technology vendors, and system integrators in an unholy trinity that leads to failed projects.
Trends in the Personal Enterprise: App Stores
I wrote about The Personal Enterprise earlier. It is a term that has been around for a while, but which is coming in to its own with Social Business Design as a foundation that helps answer a lot of the questions that the original concept left open.
Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 01/29/2010
U.S. pledges 17 percent emissions reduction by 2020 – washingtonpost.com
The United States pledged Thursday to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels under an international climate agreement, though it made its commitment contingent on passing legislation at home. [...]
Facebook – #FAIL in Customer Service – Bad Process, BAD Process
As you well know, I’m not a big fan of the frantic efforts of Facebook to treat its members like assets rather than like customers. The problem is that while it might be nice to attribute all their errors to the blinding desire of Mark Zuckerberg to capture revenue in some way – including using [...]
After the iPad – Wireless Price Wars?
Image by Getty Images via Daylife First I should get my opinion on the $AAPL iPad out of the way. Yes, I want one – but I will probably get rid of my iPhone if I do. Lack of multitasking and a keyboard drives me nuts. I want a $GOOG Android phone. iPad is cool media [...]
Which way do you see the world?
Compare this image (click for larger image): with this one (click for larger image), created by Trey Ratcliff: Which way do you see the world? There’s a powerful lesson there.
Successful presentations? – go back to basics
Some of us of a certain age come from a time when presentations weren’t created directly on the PC (or Mac) with PowerPoint (or Keynote), or with cool new online tools like Prezi. Back then before laptop PCs and low cost flash drives, if there was plenty of money in the marketing budget, and the presentation was really important you might create photographic slides, but usually it was paper on a flip chart stand, or more likely foils and an overhead projector (and you could write your notes alo…
