The Future’s So Bright…

I continue to believe that AMR is doing the best job at connecting the dots between the “Analyst” world of business and the “real” world of business. This piece by CEO Tony Friscia highlights the challenges businesses face in trying to position themselves for the future. This opening piece paints the picture the [...]

My Shrinking Microsoft Footprint…

Got to thinking on my drive in today about how varied my apps/tech usage is getting.  Pre-2008, my world was primarily MSFT based… Office for Apps, Windows Media, mp3 player (no iPod), Communicator for IM… In 2008, look at the changes… have been won over by my iPod, Twitter/Twihrl for  communicating with  colleagues instead of [...]

3 Dots… and Snow on the Way…

April… Cincinnati… of course there’s snow in the forecast for the weekend…
Does personal responsibility exist anymore?  I ask because it seems that whenever someone drops the ball on a project or simply forgets to deliver on something… it is always someone else’s fault… I skipped a step in a process the other day (I know, [...]

My alma mater is a Social Butterfly…

As an Ohio State grad, I get various e-mails talking about the latest/greatest research projects, new ventures etc going on there. Yesterday the top story was O.S.YouTube on their foray into the social media world with facebook, youtube and flickr. Makes sense… another way to reach out to future/current customers (prospective and current [...]

Google, Cisco, Microsoft or IBM for Cloud Computing?

Just read a Forrester brief on the state of cloud computing and here’s their take on where the vendors sit…

Nothing really new in the report per se… more along the lines of ‘businesses should assess their positions carefully’ and ‘collaboration will continue to change’… but their vendor assessment was particularly interesting. There was add’l [...]

Whither the Corporate Blog?

I read with interest yesterday in the Boston Business Journal about the plight of some corporate run blogs at some mid to large sized companies in the Boston area.  It seems many that began catching the wave of communicating with customers by blogging have suddenly dropped doing it altogether… letting sites go dormant in some cases [...]