October 2011
4 posts
Help! How To Comment at New Facebook for iPad app... →
I’ve been keenly awaiting the new Facebook iPad app. It’s OK. There’s a quick and reasonable summary at LifeHacker. But I’m stuck on one thing. I can’t figure how to comment on posts! See the screen…
Space Shuttle: The Complete Missions... →
TOKYO SLO-MODE By Alex Lee - http://b0x.ee/n7rKLr... →
Flying with Vultures - http://b0x.ee/psNz3m (via... →
April 2011
3 posts
Cloud directions Facebook versus IBM, light-bulbs... →
IBM and Facebook are not really fighting each other, just looking at the world from opposite ends of a telescope. Consider, IBM has to make big inroads into the cloud computing world…
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January 2011
1 post
Misha, will be 1 year old in 2 weeks. Always... →
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September 2010
3 posts
Cloud plus on-premise vendors best placed for SMB... →
AMI Partners recently reported that the greatest growth in Cloud/SaaS for SMBs would be in email/messaging, online storage and backup, and document management/collaboration solutions….
IBM's social media skills initiative for partners →
IBM is often ranked in the top 50 of US companies in terms of social media savviness, but like most companies which sell indirect that savviness does not necessarily translate down through …
August 2010
8 posts
Cloud disruption gains momentum driven by lower... →
The Cloud is the biggest disruptive force to hit the IT industry for the last 20 years; and by the way that’s why it’s not “the same” as using AMS as an online service bureau 20 years ago…
GM and social media - a new day and a "new GM" →
Connie Burke, Communications Manager of Social Media at GM, gave a good interview in CIO Zone and explained something of GM’s commitment to social media and the impact it’s having on…
Work For Free →
What Lithium has discovered about the social hierachy on community platforms.
Links for 2010-08-11 [Digg] →
Work For Free
What Lithium has discovered about the social hierachy on community platforms.
Starbucks, ask a simple question get 10,000... →
It’s astounding that when Starbucks asked on Facebook “How long is your drink order?” they had nearly 2,000 answers per hour for the first 5 hours, and about the same number of “Likes”. It only…
Links for 2010-08-03 [Digg] →
Social Business is crossing the chasm
Social Media Consultants need to cross the chasm
Social Business is crossing the chasm →
Social Media Consultants need to cross the chasm
New iPhone update 4.0.1 loses 3 bars of signal... →
The update is said to be an industry-first wherein the signal bars represent the real phone antenna performance, and not just a nice graphic as in the past. Mind you in the past a nice graphic…
July 2010
10 posts
7 tags
Using social media to better product development →
In their report The path to successful new products McKinsey found that the businesses with the best product-development track records do three things better than their less-successful peers:
What iPads Did To My Family - reblog →
I don’t think I’ll be buying any more desktops going forward. I don’t think I’ll even be buying any more laptops going forward.
They’ve all been largely obsoleted (at least at my home) by a…
3 Sports Fan Engagement Insights from the Digital... →
The Digital Sport Summit #dss10 in Melbourne yesterday was a sold-out event, and while I saw a few less satisfied twitters I thought that it was very constructive first-time event and it had…
Links for 2010-07-07 [Digg] →
‘Cloud (IaaS) is not just about Infrastructure!!
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'Cloud (IaaS) is not just about Infrastructure!! →
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Earned media as a distinct form of media →
I’m a bit late to the party and wasn’t really on top of exactly what “earned media” is - so I have to admit to dragging my heels. I’d read the Nielsen/Facebook report which showed that earned…
Links for 2010-07-05 [Digg] →
The Why What How and Who Of Customer Centricity
It strikes me that the world of the customer centricity is becoming clearer. It may be that Iâ��ve been reading too many books and digesting too…
The Why What How and Who Of Customer Centricity →
It strikes me that the world of the customer centricity is becoming clearer. It may be that Iâ��ve been reading too many books and digesting too many blog posts but I am beginning to see some…
McKinsey: B2B customers prefer fewer, more... →
In the recent McKinsey article The basics of business-to-business sales success the B2B customers surveyed said “they care most about product and price, but what they really want is a great …
iPhone Bars 'Totally Wrong': Apple 'Stunned' To...
So I guess Apple are saying that having now focused their attention on the performance of the phone in the various “death grip” positions that they have not detected the same fall off in performance as the bars would indicate, and on further investigation found that the bar display formula was more a graphic that a performance meter. OK, that is good, in the future the graphic will...
June 2010
29 posts
Why Channel Partners should connect with vendors... →
Beth Vanni – Director, Market Intelligence at Amazon Consulting (not related to Amazon.com) recently wrote: …doesn’t it stand to reason that solution providers will be more effective…
Microsoft moves channels to understand customer... →
The announcement today that Jon Roskill will take over, effective July 1st, as corporate VP of Microsoft’s worldwide partner group, seems to indicate a significant shift in channel strategy,…
Why creativity is dangerous for business... →
I don’t have much time for the BS of what I call the “innovation industry”, although I do certainly admire their ability to create wealth for themselves by selling this BS. But I resent the fact…
Links for 2010-06-20 [Digg] →
The Power of Synthesis and the Problem with Experts
The irony of many great discoveries is that they really weren’t discoveries at all, at least not in the sense that Columbus discovered…
The Power of Synthesis and the Problem with... →
The irony of many great discoveries is that they really weren’t discoveries at all, at least not in the sense that Columbus discovered America. In actuality, they came from people who took well…
McKinsey - social media critical issue for... →
With the announcement of the Neilsen McKinsey Joint Venture NM Incite, the global managing director of McKinsey, Dominic Barton, said: “Social media is an increasingly critical…
How with just 3 Asks EMC encourages staff to... →
Over a really pleasant discussion with Jamie Pappas today I learnt a lot about social media and EMC Corp - one of the corporate leaders and believers in the business benefits of social media.
Links for 2010-06-11 [Digg] →
Vital Statistics for B2B Marketers “the video”
B2B leads B2C, or does it. Great video, 3 minutes.
Vital Statistics for B2B Marketers "the video" →
B2B leads B2C, or does it. Great video, 3 minutes.
B2B buyer process fundamentally changing - video... →
Earnest Agency has been publishing some valuable summaries of social media B2B marketing stats, particularly Vital Statistics for B2B Marketers. They’ve just released a video of the stats,…
Links for 2010-06-10 [Digg] →
Social Media & Enterprise 2.0 Musings: General Adoption Tech
We’re having an interesting discussion on adoption techniques and how to get relatively anti-social people engaged in social media…
China Turns Its Focus To Africa: The China Tracker... →
As their myriad ties strengthen, there are ways for investors and companies to profit.
Social Media & Enterprise 2.0 Musings: General... →
We’re having an interesting discussion on adoption techniques and how to get relatively anti-social people engaged in social media and communities in our EMC|ONE community, and I thought Iâ��d share…
Create a Google Wave with Wave This button →
I added a Google “Wave This” button to my post “How Small Business uses Facebook for B2B” clicked on it, and whammo! It created a neat Wave. That should improve the viralness of Waves. There’s…
Create a Google Wave with Wave This button →
I added a Google “Wave This” button to my post “How Small Business uses Facebook for B2B” clicked on it, and whammo! It created a neat Wave. That should improve the viralness of…
Links for 2010-06-07 [Digg] →
How Small Business uses Facebook for B2B
It’s a question which is still asked everyday - isn’t Facebook for friends and consumer brands why would I use it for B2B? We all know about the big B2C…
How Small Business uses Facebook for B2B →
It’s a question which is still asked everyday - isn’t Facebook for friends and consumer brands why would I use it for B2B? We all know about the big B2C guys, the Starbucks, Pringles Adidas etc, but…
How Small Business uses Facebook for B2B →
It’s a question which is still asked everyday - isn’t Facebook for friends and consumer brands why would I use it for B2B? We all know about the big B2C guys, the Starbucks, Pringles…
Links for 2010-06-06 [Digg] →
Double Dutch IS Foursquare for Conventions and Events
A few months ago I wondered if location-based (LB) platforms like Foursquare could be used to maximize engagement at conventions and other…
Double Dutch IS Foursquare for Conventions and... →
A few months ago I wondered if location-based (LB) platforms like Foursquare could be used to maximize engagement at conventions and other events. It turns…
Social leveraging an ordinary product into strong... →
Image via Wikipedia I read recently an admonition in a comment to a post that social media/business “only works well for companies who already deliver a competitively superior…