TVU Immigration Scam
From The Hindu This could become one of the largest immigration frauds to ever hit the U.S. university system With 95% of the students involved said to be of Indian origin, hundreds may face deportation Tri Valley University, here in the Bay Area is involved in what might be the biggest immigration frauds with student […]
Sage in the Cloud, but is it too little too late?
Last week Sage, the UK’s biggest accountancy software supplier, finally released their first real online accounting solution. It looks like a proper SaaS or Cloud offering, unlike the hosted Online 50 product sold through a few resellers from 6 years ago, or their previous failed attempt of SageLive in 2009. I would argue that because […]
Dealing with Online Profiles
Sometimes I feel like I’m having a profile crisis, or maybe that’s a profile anxiety attack. I mean, how many profiles do I have online, how up to date are they and how can I possibly keep track of them…
Change management and the wisdom of failure
Failure creates excellent opportunities to refine experience and knowledge into great success.
13 Reasons Not to Go to the Cloud
This weeks sponsored InfoBoom post is something a little different for me. As long time readers will know, I am a total Cloud fanatic. However, Michael Coté wrote a note saying he’s been researching reasons not to go to the Cloud. I’ll bite. There is almost always a lot to be learned by considering the […]
Facebook Aiming to be the Central Hub for Social Shopping?
I read that Facebook just started testing a new feature called “Buy With Friends”. It seems that the feature, which only works today with virtual goods inside games, let’s users get discounts on items that their friends buy. When a user makes an in-app purchase of a virtual product using Facebook Credits they are offer […]
Three tips for Social CRM adoption
Veteran journalist Peter Coffee, who now works for Salesforce.com, asked me for three points that enterprise buyers should consider when introducing social CRM into an organization.
The Honeymoon Ends in Despair: The Sad Sad Case of Verizon Wireless
For years – since the first one was released – I had an iPhone. I had the iPhone, then the 3G, the 3GS and the 4. For me to continue to acquire that fashion statement, I had to suck it up and go back to AT&T, a carrier that I hated for eons – because […]
Even With a Culture of Listening – You Still Need Surveys
I have been keeping tabs on the Clarabridge Customer Connections conference in Florida via Twitter. Clarabridge is a vendor in the analytics world and one of the vendors I follow. There have been some interesting tidbits that have come across my activity stream about the role and need of analytics going forward, how to better […]
Hedge Accounting and Beyond: Currency Volatility and Movements Aren’t Just Treasury’s Problem
It seems that commodity price escalation — and recent retrenchment, in certain markets — has gotten the better of the global sourcing volatility discussion of late than currency fluctuations. Yet currency volatility and price mo…
