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 [...]
Salesforce Building a Campus
Giants Win World Series In other news from San Francisco, Salesforce.com will build a corporate campus on Mission Bay in San Francisco. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the company has acquired 14 acres in a 303 acre redevelopment zone near AT&T Park in Mission Bay with a value of $278 million and will build [...]
Vendor Events: 10 Oracle Open World Tips For #OOW10
Put These Tips To Work And Have A Great Oracle Open World Oracle Open World is on the list of enterprise Grand Slam must attend tech events. This year rolls in the JavaOne and the Sun folks into one big tent. Expect up to 70,000 attendees, support staff, and partners in full force. Here are [...]
Back for the 6th time and a worthy cause
I got an email this morning from a friend, a friend I thought I knew pretty well yet what I didn’t know is how dedicated he is to helping a worthy cause – a cause I had never even heard of. Last year during my 1st 24 Hour marathon I asked everyone to do their [...]
Thank You Beyond Anything CRM
Every now and then, something strikes me rather deeply – deeply enough to emit an outright gasp of an unshaped, almost unrecognizable emotion. Some times it’s flash of insight into a problem or idea I’ve been wrestling with for a long time. Sometimes it’s a welling up of a feeling that leans in the direction [...]
Earthquakes Show Supply Chain Risk Extends Beyond Supplier Financial Viability
Inside many companies, the recession has caused supply risk to move from a secondary issue to a primary concern. Despite this interest, many companies are approaching the topic from a narrow scope, considering only supplier financial viability as a r…
Cloud, it’s a web thing
Having read (hat-tip Dennis Howlett) Randy Bias’ article at Kendallsquare on Debunking the “No Such Thing as a Private Cloud” Myth I have to say — rather like the apocryphal Irish direction-giver — if I’d wanted to make a case for private cloud, I wouldn’t have started from there. Randy and I joined a civilized [...]
Irrational Populism
I’ve been reading about some of the troubles that the Las Vegas hospitality industry is going through (as well as getting a lot of promo email for $40 a night suites at Mandalay Bay) and it again reminds me that populist uproar is neither rational nor constructive. Luxury hotels have also suffered from the backlash [...]
SF Looks to Unleash Entrepreneurs, Maybe
Image by azizk via Flickr This is the message that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is sending: “This legislation is trying to eliminate from the books the complete, unnecessary nickeling-and-diming of our business entrepreneurs during our worst economic recession since the Great Depression,” Chiu said. [From S.F.'s bid to wipe out some extra business [...]
San Francisco, The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S.
Normally I would tweet this but this feature in SF Weekly is so extensive and conclusive that it deserves attention.
It’s time to face facts: San Francisco is spectacularly mismanaged and arguably the worst-run big city in America. This year’s city budget is an astonishing $6.6 billion — more than twice the budget for [...]
