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Socialnomics

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Why read blogs?

Just finished reading and excellent bog on “Why Blog” and it’s a shame that ITW’s Blog Idol 2010 is coming to an end, nonetheless I thought I’d toss in my 2 cents on why I think people should read blogs. Personally I think there are 3 primary reasons, these are:
1. To learn. If you are [...]

Lessons for Bloggers vis-a-vis Financial Journalism

Bloggers in the field of IT and IT marketing can learn from the lessons of financial journalists in how to develop a successful blog.

Staying Relevant for all Things Enterprise IT

What was the key ingredient in successfully managing enterprise IT projects? It is more than Project Management. It involves Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM).

One Ring to Rule them all

10Mbps, 100Mbps, 1Gbps, 10 Gbps, _______
So what is the next number in this series?  If my 12 year old son was asked to complete this series in his math class, I’m pretty sure that he would be able to put in 100Gbps, without even knowing what bps means.
For those of us in the IT industry [...]

Notes on the HP acquisition of PALM

The announcement on HP’s purchase of PALM was a surprise. Yet, the PALM purchase makes good sense. Will HP be able to Grow Palm? Will HP Succeed?

United Breaks Guitars – Understanding Social Customer Service

United Breaks Guitars – Understanding Social Customer Service
I have been on this quest to understand Social Marketing and Business and how the two meet.
I had a slight epiphany tonight while re watching the Dave Carroll video, “United Breaks Guitars”.
While we know that Dave was approached after the fact by United [...]

RIM BlackBerry OS 6.0 too Little, too Late?

RIM presented OS 6.0 at WES 2010. Is RIM’s Blackberry OS 6.0 too little, too late?

A quick observation in education

What my kids teach me is the use of a product or service can go beyond what I conceive it to be, therefore I must always keep an open mind.

Social Media A CIO View

Social What?
Social Media, Social Networking, or Social Business as I prefer to call it. The name itself doesn’t really matter but the end goal is clear, for business users the ultimate goal doesn’t change, impact to the bottom line. The dot com era taught us that the models may change but the fundamentals of [...]

The Holy Grail to the Knowledge of Everything: Wolfram/Alpha

A discussion on the holy grail of the Knowledge of Everything. Is this SkyNet (The Terminator, 1984)?

Virtualization Technology Adoption – part 3 – Desktop Computers

It’s Wednesday, the middle of the week, and also the middle of this series on analyzing virtualization technology by market adoption and value proposition.  We’ve covered mainframe computing and compute servers, equipment the average person never sees, and even the IT professional usually administers remotely.  We all use this type of computing, when we see [...]

Virtualization Technology Adoption – part 2 – Compute Servers

In the first post of this series, we looked at the technology adoption life cycle, seven value propositions for market adoption of virtualization, five classes of computing and the maturity of virtualization in mainframe computers.
Over the last several years, virtual machines have seen major adoption in the commodity compute server market.  I think it would [...]

Virtualization Technology Adoption – part 1

This is a reworking of some thoughts on virtualization technology originally posted on my personal blog.  I’m breaking it into parts so that I can elaborate a little more on each aspect.
The success of any technology depends on many factors and it is helpful to reference a technology by it’s adoption in the market.  One [...]

Chapter 5 – CIO to Marketing Guy

This will be my final posting on this journey topic, not because it’s done but because I am now getting into the tree’s of this, what I learn will refine and change, part of that I want to keep private, other parts aren’t germain to this story.
As a wrap up here are some of the [...]