Naomi’s Annual “Appearance” On Mr. Bill’s Radio Show
Oh No Mr. Bill! On Wednesday (8-31-2011) at noon EDT, I’ll be doing my fourth annual guest “appearance” on Bill Kutik’s Radio Show, which is very generously sponsored by Knowledge Infusion. I always look forward to doing these shows because Bill’s a great interviewer, the long tail of replays is enormous, and getting ready to [...]
We need more Apple/Google/Amazon moments, less IBM moments
HP’s many announcements in the past weeks led observers to say this was its “IBM” inflexion point – deemphasize consumer tech, get more into enterprise tech. The interesting thing is Cisco and Dell are also going through similar therapy. I keep waiting for Microsoft to make a similar confession. The funny thing is I see [...]
Demystifying the Cloud
How do you spread the word about the benefits of Cloud Computing beyond technology enthusiasts, web “savvy” geeks and industry insiders to the general business woman and man “in the street”? The likes of Microsoft and Salesforce are certainly trying to do that with some of their advertising campaigns, but I believe they are missing [...]
Executive Profiles: Disruptive Tech Leaders In Social Business – Parker Harris, Salesforce.com
Welcome to an on-going series of interviews with the people behind the technologies in Social Business. The interviews provide insightful points of view from a customer, industry, and vendor perspective. A full list of interviewees can be found here. Parker Harris, Co-Founder and Executive VP of Technology Biography Parker Harris founded salesforce.com along with [...]
CRM Idol 2011: The Reviews Continue to Roll #4B
Okay, you’ve had time to digest the morning posts from CRM Idol, now time for the afternoon reviews That would be Vigilus, Assistly, Front Row Solutions. We’ve tried to be as kind as we can to the good and bad in these reviews. We recognize these are small enthusiastic companies who feel like they are [...]
Executive Profiles: Disruptive Tech Leaders In Social Business – Alan F. Nugent, Mzinga, Inc
Welcome to an on-going series of interviews with the people behind the technologies in Social Business. The interviews provide insightful points of view from a customer, industry, and vendor perspective. A full list of interviewees can be found here. Alan F. Nugent, CEO Mzinga, Inc Biography Alan (Al) Nugent is the Chief Executive Officer of [...]
Google Adwords and SEO: Beware of the Fraudsters
Most of you probably already know this, but I thought it worth mentioning here that SEO fraud appears to be increasing rapidly, along with Google Adwords fraud. Businesses across the spectrum are anxious, to say the least, to increase business. This might be one reason that the amount of daily calls, emails and other detritus [...]
Dreamforce 2011, what’s to like?
Posters went up around the Moscone conference center in sun-drenched San Francisco yesterday, celebrating social as the big theme of Dreamforce this year. The emphasis on social had been semaphored as early as June, when Marc Benioff began rehearsing Salesforce.com’s social enterprise messaging at its CloudForce event in DC. It has intensified in some of [...]
CRM Idol 2011: The Reviews Continue to Roll #4A
The first round of CRM Idol 2011 – The Americas is now officially over with the EMEA competition looming. We have completed the demos/reviews of 39 companies for the Americas (we lost one due to personal reasons at the last minute) and about 25 of the reviews are completed and published. You’ve seen 14 of [...]
Why Should Marketers Care About Creating and Marketing Terminology?
The EI’s have been discussing the importance of branding the term “cloud.” The actual question posed to the group was: Since everyone is “cloud” today curious to see how everyone views it in the market. Is it becoming passé or in the words of Gartner has it entered the “drought of disillusionment”? How important (or not) [...]
