State of the Stack v4 – OpenStack In All It’s Glory
I gave the seminal State of the Stack presentation at the OpenStack Summit. This is the 4th major iteration of the deck. This particular version took a very different direction for several reasons: Most of the audience is well steeped in OpenStack and providing the normal “speeds and feeds” seemed pedantic There were critical unaddressed […]
Tell your work story with an infographic
I have recently found myself updating my resume. Why? After 4 1/2 years at Spigit, I have moved on as the company has been acquired by Mindjet. It was a good run there. So I needed to dust off the resume. And you know, it was eye-opening how limiting resumes are. They are great for their […]
Google Drive breaks Google Docs?
Starting yesterday, I’ve been receiving requests from people to share some of the content I have on Google Docs. Yesterday I also shared a link with a friend of mine, and he couldn’t access it. That puzzled me I checked the last link myself, signed out, and tried again – I got a log-on. What? […]
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
ZipCast is Cool
This should have been a Tweet… I just wanted to remark how easy-to-use and impressive SlideShare’s ZipCast is. I’m online now watching @rwang:
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 […]
A Small Business Perspective on the Value of Salesforce Chatter
For those of you not familiar with Chatter, it’s a relatively new product that Salesforce (CRM vendor) released and it’s basically designed to allow for more efficient communication within your organization. It’s a bit like Facebook but for the enterprise. I want to note that this post isn’t about Salesforce as a whole, but specifically […]
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, […]
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 […]
