Dreamforce 2011: Collaboration Hardwired into Context.
Almost two and a half years ago in March of 2009, I suggested the following: “Don’t confuse Enterprise 2.0 with social computing concepts”. Ignoring the dated terminology for a second, my premise was that social in the enterprise doesn’t mean throwing all sorts of features at the end user in an attempt to get them [...]
Startup Festival coming to Montreal – Why it’s important
I know that David just posted about the upcoming Startup Festival, but I thought I would add my own thoughts: I have definitely been getting the feeling that the whole “startup conference” format is getting a little stale. The same formats in the same cities with most of the same speakers. The real benefit of [...]
It’s about to get a little crazy out there . . .
Ok, here’s the thing. The “is this another bubble?” conversation has been going on for a while, and everyone was able to agree that there hasn’t been a bust imminent so far. It might have been dragged out by the sluggish economy, it might have been a function of a lot of effort going in [...]
Innovation Weekend @ SAP TechEd
Over the years I’ve always tried hard to bring new technologies from within SAP to the forefront, into the hands of folks at our events as quickly as possible and when I made my transition to my new team this year I took the opportunity to push that personal agenda even further. It was this [...]
Kicking off 2010 SAP Demo Jam
It’s that time of the year again, SAP TechEd is ramping up and that means the Demo Jam call for submissions is on it’s way! In fact with this post I’m going to share some of the interesting new things this year to help make your submission a bit more attention! The video is about [...]
SAPPHIRE NOW 2010
I’ve been a bit quiet lately in regards to the day job, many know I have switched roles inside of SAP but I’ve not really gone into great detail about what it is that I am doing these days. So I thought I would take a moment to kick things off with what I will [...]
$5000 Goal Reached!
It is with a large amount of pride and a huge helping of humility that I report we have just crossed the $5000 goal mark we set out to achieve during our 24 Hour Marathon this year! I received an email from Jim Spath updating me about the offline donations he was tracking on his [...]
2nd Annual Marathon a wrap
So it’s Sunday and I have slept now a solid 12 hours to make up for being awake almost 30 hours completely 25 of which was dedicated to the 2nd annual 24 Hour Marathon for the Doctors Without Borders. I’ve decided to share with you the content around the event and then my thoughts on [...]
Under the Radar: Commercializing the Cloud – Apply to Present / Discount Tix Here
Under the Radar is Silicon Valley’s most established startup debut platform: a conference series organized by Dealmaker Media, covering business applications, social media, entertainment, mobility..etc. This year’s conference in Mountain View, CA on April 16th will focus on Commercializing the Cloud – that’s a fairly wide definition, and one that perfectly mashes with our focus [...]
2.0 Adoption Warfare – can military tactics help?
A few weeks ago, as part of Social Media Week, Alan Patrick and I ran the very well received Social Media in Enterprise event (which we’ll run again!). It provided 8 different perspectives on collaboration in the enterprise using the new tools. Amongst the many issues raised in a night of some great discussion and [...]
