Conference tips for #Salesforce.com #Dreamforce #DF12 and other #EnSW conferences
I had an interesting discussion on Twitter with a few folks (@mkrigsman, @charlieisaacs, @merv, @lningram, @rwang0, and @dandarcy) regarding tips for attendees for the upcoming Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. As pointed out on the tweetstream, many of these conference tips are relevant for just about any conference, so I thought I’d share them here. [...]
Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-08-20
Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past few weeks: Many more details emerge about Microsoft’s upcoming “Surface” tablet. Will Microsoft Office compatibility, plus Windows 8′s distinctive user experience (formerly known as “Metro”) be enough to overcome iOS and Android tablet momentum? HP and Microsoft continue to take hits – are they as [...]
Social Research Key Findings
At the recently completed CRM Evolution conference, sponsored by CRM Magazine in New York, Esteban Kolsky presented some of the results of our social media research. We’d been working on it for most of the year and we were writing up the findings almost until Esteban gave the presentation. It killed me not to be [...]
CRM Idol 2012: Lessons at the (Nearly) Halfway Point
There are some clear trends this year that reflect the change in the market and the interests and concern of emerging companies who think that this is how they will make it in the technology industry. We look at a few here. AND we’ll let you in on who …
Research: Spotlight on social media risk management
A new report by Altimeter Group sheds light on the importance of risk management as applied to social media.
Reprise: Legacy HRMS/Legacy Marriage: Sunk Costs Versus Innovation
[I wrote this post in June, 2010, just when Al and Tipper Gore had announced their separation mid-2010, at a time when true SaaS InFullBloom was in its infancy. I was spending a ton of time with a wide range of vendors, some licensees of my "Starter Kit," working hard on the next generation of [...]
