
How I Became a Tech Evangelist
Two questions I get asked quite often are: 1. How did you get to be where you are with your blogging? You’re not a native English speaker, nor a trained writer…. 2. What kind of name is “iamondemand?” So I figured it’s time to share my “tech evangelist” story. (In the feature picture of this […]

9 Ways To Survive The Shit Storm of Developer Evangelism
I started to write a blog entry a few months ago about my time doing developer evangelism. First in practice, along with product management and team leadership and then as a full time developer evangelist with Basho. Then I felt many different things, nothing which translated into a very useful blog entry. Well past any […]

The Cloud is Rockin’ and Rollin’ In
Well, this is nothing new for those of us who are following the industry. However, as I go to main street around the world (as opposed to early adopter land like Silicon Valley and other places), there are many users (including businesses) who are unaware of what cloud computing can offer them and any challenges […]

Does Every Company Need a Robert Scoble? (infographic)
What I learned in 2010 can be summed up in one individual Except for reading the occasional year end articles (notables include Kotadia, Maggie Fox, McAfee) I typically skip the tradition of trying to summarize an entire year in 10 bullet points. The Enterprise 2.0/Social Business space is just too dynamic with many starts, stops […]

Don Dodge Dumps Microsoft After it Dumps Him
It’s less than two weeks ago that Microsoft let Don Dodge go, along with 5,000 other employees. He parted gracefully, then soon posted: Getting dumped by Microsoft was a life changing event…for the better. The future is very bright. The opportunities are amazing. Don probably set a World Record in the speed of getting a […]

SAP and The 2.0 Adoption Council
As part of my role helping evangelize the use of social media within SAP , I am a proud member of the 2.0 Adoption Council, a group devoted to creating and sharing best practices in Enterprise 2.0 adoption (see the “Web 2.0 in SAP” section of this site for more information about internal Web 2.0 […]