Guide to the Enterprise 2.0 Conference
The enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston is happening in just a few weeks and as usual I’m quite excited to attend to see colleagues, friends, and to learn about what other practitioners, brands, and vendors are up to in the enterprise collaboration industry. I will also be speaking with practitioners for my book on enterprise collaboration which [...]
Are you being served ?
As I write this latest post, I’m somewhere over the US, cruising at 35,000 feet and hastily making vapor trails toward attendance at my first Gluecon event in Broomfield, Colorado. And you know what, I’m pretty excited too. Not only has Gluecon got a great lineup for 2011 and a promise of being an excellent [...]
Cloud Connect 2011 – Takeaways
Last week Santa Clara Convention Center was buzzing with people attending Cloud Connect 2011 event. Compared to last year’s event, this one was big with more participation from all sides of the equation. In fact, they had to use many overflow rooms for the keynotes. The enthusiasm for cloud computing was high and, like the [...]
This Post Has Nothing to do with #SXSW
This post originally appeared on TechCrunch. For the next four days if you’re in the tech industry you’re going to hear a non-stop stream of information about SXSW. It’s the time of year when many new startups are struggling to rise above all the noise and be heard. And when everybody is shouting it [...]
Free Social Selling University Workshop by InsideView
This week is the Sales 2.0 conference (check the link in the sidebar) and the folks over at InsideView decided to put together a free workshop and panel all around social selling. For those of you not familiar with social selling, the concept is about using social tools, data, information, and strategies, to… sell! The [...]
Making The Cut To Favorite Cloud, SaaS, And Tech Bloggers
Dealmaker Media has published a list of their favorite Cloud, SaaS, and Tech bloggers. Once again I am happy to report that I made the cut. I am also glad to see my fellow bloggers Krishnan and Zoli on this list who are the driving force behind Cloudave. I was on a similar list of [...]
Hugh Hefner, Sherlock Holmes & Indiana Jones: Making the Case for Mobile Intelligent Content
The navigation system on her phone has turned her life around. Judy, a 50 year old woman feels like a new person. She can now go where ever she wants because the navigation software on her phone is intelligent enough to recognize where she is and where she wants to go. But for her it’s [...]
Executive Summit kicks of O’Reilly Strata Conference 2010
I’m in Santa Clara this week, attending O’Reilly‘s inaugural Strata Conference. Today, I’m spending the day in the event’s Executive Summit, where I hope to hear some of the ways in which ‘normal’ businesses are approaching the opportunity of making their data work harder. The notes that follow are a rather raw summary of some [...]
The Master of Guerilla Marketing Turns Microsoft’s Prank Around
CloudAve readers know I am a fan of edgy marketing. Now it’s time to update my recently compiled inventory of software marketing pranks. A major show like Salesforce.com’s DreamForce would not even be real without some guerilla marketing activity – except the players seemed to have traded places this year. Guerilla Marketing is normally David’s [...]
Dreamforce: Decade of Inspiration
I was at the first Dreamforce. It was in a hotel at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco and it attracted 500 people and perhaps another 200 employees — roughly 2/3 of the entire company. The big announcements were related to sales force automation, but the company also announced custom tabs and some nifty [...]
Defrag Wrap-up, Part 1
Defrag’s over, and my sense was that it was our best yet. I wanted to share some quick thoughts/reflections, and then come back in a later post (in a few weeks) and share my “here’s where we’re gonna improve” post that I do annually. 1. One of the ironies of being the guy that creates [...]
The Cloud Economics : Emerging Signals
Over the weekend, I finished reading the recently released Microsoft paper on the “Economics of the cloud”. As I head to Denver today for participating in the defrag panel on the impact of cloud computing in the enterprise irregulars track, I just…
Conference Organizers Suck at Name Tags
Every once in a while I start to feel like I’m taking myself a bit too seriously and I have to slip in a more cheeky post. But to every jest there is some truth. So here’s what really winds me up! …. It OUGHT to be really obvious how to create a proper tag [...]
Breaking the Echo Chamber
I’m writing this morning in a text editor, as I wait for internet to be restored at my house. And I’m suddenly thinking that I’ve got to get a 3G iPad or a mifi device (or an HTC Evo), because MAN do I feel cut-off from the rest of the world. All of that got [...]
