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John Taschek

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Technologist. Communication expert. VP Strategy at salesforce.com, Editorial Director of CloudBlog.

Dreamforce1 - The Context of Salesforce1

Dreamforce1 – The Context of Salesforce1

By John Taschek on November 18, 2013

You cannot deal with modern problems using antiquated systems. – Ramon Baez, Senior VP & CIO, HP @RamonfBaez, cited here by @valaafshar I have been to every Dreamforce, and I plan on going to every future one, so long as I remain of sound body and mind. It’s not just…

Posted in Application Software, Business, Featured Posts, Mobile | Tagged developers, df13, dreamforce, dreamforce1, Internet of Customers, Internet of Things, salesforce, salesforce.com, salesforce1

Mobile Shows That The World is Not for Dummies

Mobile Shows That The World is Not for Dummies

By John Taschek on November 18, 2013

It’s far too easy to hate statistics and use them to make a point simultaneously. Let’s use them to show that the world is not comprised of dummies and idiots. Beginning with the trends published by Mary Meeker about mobile adoption. She shredded some statistical constructs about the PC industry and its projected growth by […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Mobile | Tagged enterprise software, gartner, Mary Meeker, personal computer, smartphone | 2 Responses

Recording versus Experiencing

Recording versus Experiencing

By John Taschek on June 24, 2013

Experiencing versus record keeping – it can’t be a new concept. Are we currently equipped to do both at the same time? Some would argue that continuous recording of life events gets in the way of the experience and prevents you from moving on. It’s not hard to see that when you go to a […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged facebook, NationalPark, rss, Yellowstone, Yellowstone National Park

The Shift has hit the Fan - Microsoft, Facebook Slides, Google Rises

The Shift has hit the Fan – Microsoft, Facebook Slides, Google Rises

By John Taschek on August 15, 2012

In what seems to be from the lower paleothic period but in fact was about a year and a half ago, I wrote a post about the Mean Girls phenomenon and Shakespeare. This in turn was not actually about mean girls or Henry IV, but about the interesting relationship of…

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged android, Apple, facebook, google, innovation, mean girls, microsoft, microsoft surface, social, techcrunch | 1 Response

Ctrl – Alt – Social

Ctrl – Alt – Social

By John Taschek on February 21, 2012

In the tech world in which everything is recycled, retooled, and spit out like un-digestible gristle, one often comes across the phrases such as groupware is “dead” or “email is dead.” Oddly enough these are euphemisms or perhaps more correctly the opposite: dysphemisms – the substitution of a disagreeable word…

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Strategy | Tagged @irregulars, @jtaschek, @stevegillmor, @toppundit, activity stream, chatter, collaboration, email, enterprise irregulars, facebook, Groupware, salesforce.com, social, Web/Tech, Weblogs

Bored of Directors

Bored of Directors

By John Taschek on February 15, 2012

What new shiny object do we not care about today? And what do crown jewels mean anyway? Thus was the start of a conversation with the New Zealand provocateur – in human form, which was a follow up to a Gillmor Gang Enterprise show recorded live in real-time. Behind the…

Posted in Featured Posts, Mobile | Tagged @benkepes, @jtaschek, @stevegillmor, cloud computing, Dystopia, facebook, Gillmor Gang, google, industry, innovation, Pew, scobleizer, social, Utopia

Europe Sets Course for Cloud

Europe Sets Course for Cloud

By John Taschek on January 31, 2012

There’s a perception that cloud computing has become a “mature” technology, a perception shared by few but anticipated by most everyone else with the exception of those trying to preserve their self-interests. I don’t blame them – each person inherently protects self-interests. They’re wrong though. Cloud is not mature. It is evolving.  The paradox is […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged CERN, cloud computing, competition, David Bradshaw, ec, efficiency, European Commission, Government, idc, industry, innovation, Neelie Kroes, public cloud, Public sector, Web/Tech

Carrot Beats Stick

Carrot Beats Stick

By John Taschek on January 19, 2012

WooHoo: You’ve just unlocked the URL of Blogville Badge! With Hostess becoming as bankrupt as the nutritional information in a Ding Dong and Kodak redefining the Kodak moment of another kind of bankruptcy, I immediately thought of my childhood. Thankfully those cheerful marketing images that blanketed the store shelves were replaced by a different set […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Strategy, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Alys Woodward, Bo Lykkegaard, Constellation, foursquare, Gamification, gaming, Hawthorne Effect, idc, industry, innovation, Mayor, ray wang, social

The Social Revolution Has Just Begun

The Social Revolution Has Just Begun

By John Taschek on January 4, 2012

Depending on whom you ask, 2011 was either the year of the iPad or the year of social. The truth is that they were and are equally weighted because they are catalysts for each other, and while each can exist without the other, imagining such a thing is like trying to imagine a world where […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Mobile, Technology | Tagged @estebanskolksy, @jtaschek, @pgreenbe, @stevegillmor, 2011, chatter, cloud computing, esteban kolsky, gartner, hype, hype cycle, industry, ipad, iPad/Apple, New Media, paul greenberg, platform, Products, salesforce, salesforce.com, social, Social Enterprise, steve gillmor

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By John Taschek on November 8, 2011

Not that long ago but in a place far away, I came to the conclusion that devices that purported to help people manage their days in fact made the problem worse. I was taking aim at everything from the Palm to the Franklin planner. The problem as I stated in my long lost archives of […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged do.com, manymoon, salesforce.com, task management | 4 Responses

Will “Mad Men” Drive the Social Enterprise?

Will “Mad Men” Drive the Social Enterprise?

By John Taschek on September 15, 2011

Note this is a special guest post from industry authority Bruce Richardson. His blog can be found at http://stellwagenresearch.blogspot.com/. Bruce has a 30-year career in high-tech, harkening back to the days in which he worked alongside George Colony (founder and CEO of Forrester), Frank Gens (Chief Research Officer of IDC),…

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Marketing, Trends & Concepts | Tagged @jtaschek, Benioff, Bruce Richardson, chatter, cloud, dreamforce, force.com, hospitals, infor, marc benioff, radian6, salesforce, salesforce.com, toyota, Weblogs, zipcar

Number 9 Dreamforce

Number 9 Dreamforce

By John Taschek on August 31, 2011

For a Beatles’ fan and a fan particularly of John Lennon, the number 9 has an important meaning. It has enough meaning Lennon wrote a few songs referencing it, including Number 9 Dream. Perhaps I like Number 9 Dream because it seems to be, quite literally, calling my name on the background vocal track. But […]

Posted in Application Software, Business, Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged @jtaschek, @zolierdos, #df11, chatter, cloud computing, cloudave, collaboration, conversations, delight, entropy, facebook, ipad, john lennon, Number 9 Dream, radian6, salesforce.com, social contacts, Taschek, Web/Tech, Weblogs

Cezanne's Apple

Cezanne’s Apple

By John Taschek on April 7, 2011

Cezanne wrote once “With an Apple, I will astonish Paris.” Cezanne at the time was a notoriously sophisticated and gifted walking set of contradictions. He loved everything he hated and hated everything he loved. He approached painting with scalpel-like precision but with a scalpel to canvas nonetheless. He wanted the world to bleed – and […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Mobile | Tagged android, Apple, cezanne, chatter, facebook, loic le meur, salesforce chatter, salesforce.com, seesmic, twitter, Web/Tech

Shrinking Balls

Shrinking Balls

By John Taschek on February 10, 2011

In my last post, I wrote about the sentiment analysis of the Super Bowl and how brands are impacted by the real-time stream. That stream stimulates a Mean Girls phenomenon that causes people to be more passionate and start to bully as they become more popular. I know some analysts…

Posted in Application Software, Business, Enterprise, Featured Posts, Mobile, Trends & Concepts | Tagged @jtaschek, analysts, bullying, chatter, cloud computing, cloudblog, Constellation, excel, facebook, google, iPad/Apple, mean girls, microsoft, platform, ray wang, real-time, salesforce.com, shakespeare, Taschek, twitter, Weblogs

The Real-Time Brand

The Real-Time Brand

By John Taschek on February 6, 2011

As I write this, it is kickoff time for the Super Bowl, an event that galvanizes people as much as Bill O’Reilly does on a day to day basis. The Super Bowl is a brand, and while millions watch it, millions refuse to watch it, and hundreds of thousands are forced to watch it because […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Apple, Bill O'Reilly, chatter, cloud computing, facebook, green bay packers, myspace, netbase, packers, real-time, salesforce.com, scoble, scobleizer, steelers, Super Bowl, Taschek

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