Executives are Still Rejecting Social in the Enterprise
I recently finished a call with a company that chose a competitor over my company’s solution in order to solicit their feedback. I try to proactively reach out to clients and prospective clients when we don’t earn their business. In this case, we did very well but ultimately lost on a couple of factors. Yet [...]
Sharepoint Watch Out – Mindtouch Goes SaaS
My Favorite Collaboration Tool, Mindtouch (Check out my previous coverage of Mindtouch here), has embraced SaaS wholeheartedly. In fact, in my previous post about Mindtouch, I characterized their platform as a glue to the clouds but, now, they have really embraced cloud computing by offering their collaboration tool as a service. No, they are not [...]
The Quest For a Personalized Enterprise Dashboard
Most executives and managers digest multiple streams of information on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual basis. Tying this information together quickly and acting on it is challenging and the end result is usually an executive or manager that is reacting instead of being proactive. One reason is that the majority of those executives [...]
Google Can’t Save Your Local Newspaper – But This Business Model Can
Newspapers are Dead. Ok, not quite dead but on life support. According to Silicon Alley Insider so far this year: 105 newspapers have been shuttered. 10,000 newspaper jobs have been lost. Print ad sales fell 30% in Q1 ’09. 23 of the top 25 newspapers reported circulation declines between 7% and 20% Therefore when [...]
Open Meets Closed – And 2.0 Comes of Age at WhoRunsGov.com
OK – I’ll agree that the title to this post is a little too declaratory – something I try to avoid but bear with me for a minute. Today at the Government 2.0 Summit, the Washington Post will announce the WhoRunsGov.com ‘Moderated Wiki’ a wiki that gives readers the chance to contribute to profiles of [...]
T-Shirt Friday #7 – Mindtouch
Everyone knows that professional conference goers like myself attend events not to listen to presentations, not to network but to collect schwag. Over the past couple of years I’ve done fairly well collecting tech t-shirts and I decided to create a weekly series critiquing tech companies t-shirt offerings in the expectation that a company with [...]
Mindtouch – Glue To The Cloud Apps
Image via CrunchBase I have been waiting to cover Mindtouch in my blog even before I started blogging here at Cloud Ave. They initially attracted my attention because they are an Open Source wiki provider, and a pretty good one too. Their main focus is on enterprises but they also offer a SaaS offering in [...]
