The Importance Of Open Source In Cloud Computing
At Cloud Computing Bootcamp on the sidelines of Cloud Expo, I gave a talk on the favorite topic of mine. I was putting forward my arguments about why Open Source is critical in cloud computing. I had a simple take away from my talk: World cannot afford a monopoly offering around cloud services, a handful [...]
VisualBee –Trying to Automate Creativity
Like many people in the technology industry, I’m regularly tasked with creating and delivering presentations – it’s something I really enjoy – spreading the message of cloud to the world. One of the things I don’t especially enjoy however is the design process around presentations – luckily I have a
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 [...]
What if Peter Drucker Taught Enterprise 2.0? (Presentation)
The Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Santa Clara is fast approaching. There are a number of people and presentations that I am excited to see. Alas, while I was fortunate enough to be selected to present at E2.0 Boston last spring, I missed the opportunity this fall. So, in the spirit of the conference next week, [...]
AbleAdvisory: A 60 Minute Marketing Conference!
This is kinda cool. David Meerman Scott talks about the Influencer Project. Its a lineup of 60 thought leaders in the Digital influence/marketing space. Each speaker gets just 60 seconds to talk. That’s right, what a great exercise… distilling your massive Powerpoint presentation down to 60 seconds of bottom line speak! Oh the conference is [...]
Presentation Slides On Social CRM from the New Communications Forum
My site was recently hacked but I’m back! Hope you guys had enough time to digest the social CRM evolution process that was stuck as my most recent post for the past week. I recently presented on Social CRM at the New Communications Forum in San Mateo and wanted to share my presentation with you. [...]
Mark Suster on Fox News: How to Present Your Business to a Crowd
My favorite quote: One of the worst things with Powerpoint is the bulletpoint…
SlideRocket Brings the Real Time Web to Presentations
SlideRocket (more coverage here) is today making a release that sees them move one step closer to making presentations that are integrally bound with the real time web rather than historic reflections. SlideRocket is releasing a new plugin architecture that allows third party developers to create plugins that harness real time data as part of [...]
How to Not Suck at a Group Presentation
Most people suck at presenting to big groups. It’s a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to influence journalists, business partners, potential employees, customers and VCs. This was evident at the Twiistup pre-event company pitch last week at UCLA. Francisco Dao came up with the idea [...]
Slideshare Gets More Serious About Monetizing Their Business
Slideshare, a site for sharing presentations, documents and pdfs, took the next step in improving their business monetizing strategy. They have announced the release of Slideshare Business, a new way for businesses to interact with the customers and, also, help Slideshare make money out of their business. In fact, this is their first paid offering [...]
Presentations: a Counterpoint. Think Creation, Not Just Delivery
We’ve often stated there is no such thing as the “CloudAve View”, only the views of individual authors, and we encourage debate even within our own team. The one thing we all agree in is that debate is good. In that spirit I offer some counterpoints to Ben’s post: Presentations… And Re-Inventing the Wheel Please [...]
Presentations… And Re-Inventing the Wheel
I’m not a huge user of presentation software. I’m blessed to not work for a corporate and hence don’t have to justify my existence with a 40 slide deck resplendent in 12 point text and bad transitions. Yup – it’s fair to say I’m not a huge fan of presentations…. A little while ago I [...]
A Tale of Two Pitches
This is part of my ongoing series, “Pitching a VC.” I recently wrote a blog post here in which I argued that the best VC meetings are discussions and not sales pitches. Many people agreed and added that even the best sales meetings are also discussions and not pitches. A few weeks ago I sat [...]
The Best VC Meetings are Debates not Sales
This is part of my blog series “Pitching a VC.” I’ve sat through a lot of VC pitches and having been CEO of an enterprise software firm for many years I’ve also sat through many customer meetings with sales teams. There is one classic mistake that I see across both types of meetings – “the [...]
SlideRocket – More Than Just Presentations
I had a briefing yesterday with SlideRocket, the company that “provides premium communication tools through innovative and compelling software-as-a-service to let you present the right message, to the right audience, at the right time. SlideRocket gives everyone the power to make great presentations, communicate effectively with colleagues, impress customers and captivate audiences.” I spoke to [...]
