Are Extraordinary U.S. Savings Levels Coming to an End?
During the recession, we all started minding our spend — companies, nonprofits, families and individuals included (governments, of course, got a pass). Of course, if you’re a family or individual lucky enough to be gainfully employed, and you cut ba…
Dissecting an analyst relations failure
This video brilliantly captures, and simultaneously mocks, the power and influence of industry analysts and their effect on enterprise vendors. Enjoy it!
Omni apps help me be the biggest nerd in the class
I know I sound like a broken record going on and on about OmniGraphSketcher, but it really is an essential tool for econ students. At least ones who refuse to turn in hand-written homework. But I thought I’d mention the other Omni app that helps me re…
VMware Zimbra: Integration without Context Shift
Stephen did his usual excellent job of explaining the the VMware Zimbra acquisition with a Q&A. Seriously – read the analysis. I already fed some of my thoughts into his post, but there are a couple of other things I wanted to mention. Zimbra’s awesomesauce Zimbra remains probably the single best implementation I have seen […]
SAP’s 12Sprints joins the social enterprise bandwagon
I spent some time this morning working with SAP’s new 12Sprints collaboration service, which was announced earlier this week. Available free in open beta immediately, it’s a cloud-based service that’s a cross between Basecamp and Google Wave and is ostensibly designed for team collaboration. Not incidentally, 12Sprints is also clearly a social application and it includes viral invitation, extensive commenting and discussion capabilities, and interesting new twists on measuring community opinion such as real time consensus tracking. Here’s my analysis and breakdown.
The Biggest Spender in the World: Your Government
Whether you’re an American or Chinese citizen — or a resident of just about any other country for that matter — chances are more than likely that your government represents far and away the largest spender within your borders. Of course, as private…
Human Interactions and the Rise of Social Characteristics in Software
Those of you who have read the 4th edition of CRM at the Speed of Light know that I’ve taken Thomas Vander Wal’s brilliant “Social Stack” concept, and added “context” as a characteristic to it. I’m increasingly convinced that the idea of ”social characteristics” is somethingthat has to be considered when it comes to the […]
Social Media in the Enterprise – event report pt 2 of 2
Yesterday I blogged part 1 of my report on the Social Media in the Enterprise event that Alan Patrick and I cooked up (at Tuttle) to inject some enterprise related content in to this week’s “London Social Media Week“. We had 8 speakers (originally 10, but Will McInnes of NixonMcInnes had travel problems, and Dr […]
