Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft;’

Back to School – Inspiration from Dreamforce

September 7th, 2011 - 12:42 pm § in Observations | | 4 Comments
I admit, I have been neglecting this blog over the summer. It’s a combination of time spent writing elsewhere, a busy work schedule and a social media writers block as I figure out what I want to talk about next here and who I am on this blog. It’s the same story on Twitter, my Klout score has crashed! So, as I took the kids for their first day back at school I resolved I too would return and whilst I was tempted to write a thrilling introspective of my social media writers block, I thought I’d kick off with a kick-off – Dreamforce, seemingly the daddy of all customer day shindigs for the billions of happy Salesforce.com punters. To be precise, I want to write about the  keynote, by Mark Benioff – CEO and Chairman. [ read more ]

Inside the Google Walled Garden

October 16th, 2009 - 12:40 pm § in Observations | | 2 Comments
I admit I am a big Google advocate, I have spent a fair amount of time at their cool European HQ In London, at partner events and I even coded the first shipped iteration of our Google Search Appliance Connector (thankfully now looked after by proper developers!). Also, I admit I've only spent a few hours with Google's latest offerings, SideWiki and Wave, but I have the feeling of being in a privileged walled garden, rather than on the crest of a mainstream wave. Why does is it feel like that? [ read more ]

Engaging through Content or just Filing it?

May 11th, 2009 - 1:17 pm § in Content Management, Observations, Persuasive Content | | 2 Comments
More thoughts on Vignette and OpenText. The news of OpenText planning to gobble up Vignette and the recent Interwoven acquisition by Autonomy sees a new chapter for these grandees of content management and I think is further evidence in the shifts that have been occurring in this market around Enterprise Content Management and what organisations really want to do. [ read more ]