I have been leading up the deployment of a software as a service project inside our company since March of this past year. The project has gone really well and it has let me flex a lot of project management muscles that had atrophied over the previous few years. Its also given me a first [...]
Entries Tagged as 'The Net'
Will the move to the cloud lead to an IT market melt down?
October 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments
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Is this an example of Amazon’s ‘optimized supply chain’
September 25th, 2008 · No Comments
Don’t get me wrong: I love Amazon. I recently signed up for Amazon Prime and have been using the heck out of it. However one of my recent purchases is leaving me a little bit puzzled as to how they decide to ship things: I live about 15 miles from Hebron, KY which is where [...]
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Google earth takes one more step towards VW
June 5th, 2008 · No Comments
.!. This via Boing Boing Lonely Are the Brave dvd today: Disney World 3D models on Google Earth – Boing Boing I know its been possible to add buildings to Google Earth for a while now, but this is the first effort I have seen to get complete sets of buildings for a particular area [...]
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Lessons learned from covering live event for corp blog last week
May 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments
I meant to post this on Thursday when things were ‘fresh in mind’, but honestly after the week of covering our analyst event last week on the corp blog was over, I was wiped out. So now, perhaps with a little more perspective a few thoughts on what went well and we things we can [...]
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Day 0
May 12th, 2008 · No Comments
.!. Today is the day. The corp blog Black Dawn trailer I have been working on in the background gets to sees the light of Google and RSS readers everywhere. Hopefully it won’t impact things here too much, but there will be a definite shift of most of the PLM and future of manufacturing stuff [...]
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Wiring up an event for social media
May 8th, 2008 · 8 Comments
I am in the middle of working with our user group on getting the groundswell ignited from users that attend the event. The main objectives are to get the vast majority that are consumers to just take a look at the blogs that will be covering the event (our corp blog, the user group’s blog [...]
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The double (triple) work of being in the early majority
May 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments
.!. I’ve noticed a trend here lately: every time I have something I want to comment on or have a thought I want to share my first inclination is to send out a twitter (if it’s short or fleeting) or do a quick post. If its just a link, I will hit the del.icio.us button [...]
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WordPress automatic upgrade
May 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
.!. So this is somewhat of a ‘test’ post, but since I am having to create it because something is broken on my blog, I thought I would take the time to actually bitch about what is broken. I found out about the WordPress Automatic upgrade plugin a few months ago and actually tried it [...]
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Whoshouldifollow – leveraging the social graph in twitter
May 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
Saw a tweet today on this from Jeremiah Owyang about this site: Who Should I Follow? | Twitter Friend Recommendations The Thirty Nine Steps the movie I have steadily building up the people I follow on twitter using the standard ways: Payback movie download Looking at the twitter streams of people in @replies to people [...]
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Building an analyst firm one tweet at a time
April 28th, 2008 · 7 Comments
I was taking a quick peek into my twiver last week and saw this update from Forrester Analyst Jeremiah Owyang This got me to thinking over the weekend about the state of the industry analyst industry (say that three times fast). I have been engaging with a number of analysts in the past few weeks [...]
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