The Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston ended earlier this week. This post covers my overall impressions about the conference material. Apologies in advance for a longish post. Overall Thoughts Given my insane meeting schedule and my objectives for the conference, I used 3 criteria to pick sessions. Here’s what I was looking for: a) Practitioners […]
My pal Gil Yehuda wrote a post yesterday about meeting logistics at Enterprise 2.0. I encourage you to read it and see if you can gain from his suggestions. Gil’s post got me to write about how I expect the conference to play out for me. I’m part of the press corps so first and […]
That’s a comment that one of the leading Enterprise 2.0 vendors made to me recently. This morning, Socialcast, provider of a micro-messaging platform announced that it’s moving to a ‘free-mium’ model. Meaning, get all the user and administrative features for free, regardless of company size or usage needs. For those of you not familiar with […]
Just heard about the passing of Professor Rajeev Motwani. Professor Motwani was a household name in Silicon Valley, most notably for giving early guidance to Larry and Sergey and investing in Google. I had the pleasure of meeting him a few years back and I distinctly remember how gracious he was with his time and […]
Umberto Mellitti, CEO of on-demand sales intelligence provider InsideView, said on Twitter: Umberto’s analogy is spot on. Also, if you’re worried about your Sales folks getting distracted by Social Media tools such as Twitter, sorry, but you have bigger problems. Either your compensation structure is just not juicy enough to keep them focused or I’m […]
The Enterprise 2.0 conference is coming to Boston in just a few weeks. Over the past few weeks, it’s been good to see a whole host of topics emerge, ranging from customer facing social media and marketing, to nuts and bolts, behind the firewall plumbing. What’s striking about this years schedule is that a plethora […]
Last week was absolute mayhem on the work front for me and I missed out on the Google Wave news cycle. This past weekend, I dug into the video and some of the commentary that emerged. I’m in general agreement with those that believe that the applicability of Wave to the enterprise can be huge, […]