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How to make a vacation about Ed Tech

I'm writing this post from Ocean City, MD. I decided to take a vacation this year with the family that didn't involve large, disturbingly cheerful characters or sweltering Florida heat (some of you may remember my trip to Disneyworld last summer; I'm still having flashbacks). Before last year's...

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-07-16

What Ed Tech Can Learn From Disneyworld

So here I am in Disneyworld, on vacation courtesy of my mother-in-law and her time share. The kids are passed out and I finally have a few minutes to think about Ed Tech. Aside from the ridiculously oppressive heat and the small lizards running around everywhere, the thing...

Tags: Disneyworld

Blog posts 2006-07-05

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Sharepoint's DisneyWorld Style Strategy

Dennis Howlett thinks the promise of Enterprise 2.0 is years away and feels Dion Hinchcliffe's ROI value accrual model is more evangelizing hand waving than evidence of any substantial uptake. From my perspective I think we're at a point where many of the...

Tags: Strategy, Environment, Microsoft SharePoint, Enterprise 2.0, Dennis Howlett, Business World, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-14

Circuit City Black Friday ad finally leaks. More yawns.

Circuit City Black Friday ad finally leaks. More yawns.UnderstandableTraditional Black Friday strategy calls for very low prices and very high consumer traffic to compensate for it. For electronics, add old models that need to be cleared out.With Black Friday consumer traffic most likely to be low this year, there...

Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Circuit City Black Friday, Black Friday, yawn, advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-11-16

Open Source in 2013

<satire> <source> Thank you. (Picture from Fox, America's only network. My picture at the top of this blog is expected to look much like this one in 2013, if I shave and get the combover right.) The hectic but repetitive routine of business and journalism often seems...

Tags: Job, America, World Entertainment Shortage, Recruitment & Selection, Open Source, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-16

My kid hates Linux

My kid hates LinuxPlease avoid AutomatixAutomatix has ruined many a system, especially after processing regular updates. The cause of a lot of mysterious and unsolvable problem reports on the Ubuntu fora.Thank God that the Automatix project has been abandoned and won't be available for Ubuntu 8.04. Furthermore, there is no...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Ubuntu, Automatix, Linux, Ubuntu 8.04

Discussion threads 2008-04-14

U.S. general laments Google Earth capability

U.S. general laments Google Earth capabilityOn the other hand...I'm sure that US intelligence takes full advantage of the same data to figure out the military capabilities of potential enemies.Disney more secure than US military?I don't get it. When I was preparing for a conference in Orlando, last year, I looked...

Tags: U.S. Government, Google Inc., Google Earth, satellite

Discussion threads 2007-06-22

It's all about the customer service

This summer, I wrote a post from Disneyworld called "Customer service in H-E-double-hockey-sticks" in which I discussed just how much value we give to our users with solid customer service, even when scarce resources prevent us from giving them all of the technology they want or need. Of course,...

Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), customer service, Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Computer Corp., sales

Blog posts 2007-03-18

United States v. Google? The DOJ would be going after the wrong perp

Not that today is pick on Nicholas Carr day or anything see my last blog post. But, while clearing out my RSS reader which I havent looked at in days (thanks to being at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo), I couldnt help but catch Carrs headline United States vs. Google. Eeeek! Antitrust law...

Tags: Google Inc., antitrust

Blog posts 2006-10-12

What, no WiFi?

So I finally returned from the world's hottest vacation to a beautiful, dry, sunny New England day. Phew! I did so, however, with a few stops along the way. One of these stops was in a little town in South Carolina called Walterboro. I don't know...

Tags: Wi-Fi

Blog posts 2006-07-19

Customer service in H-E-double-hockey-sticks

A while back, one of the other bloggers at ZDNet posted an article addressing the importance of providing outstanding service to our end users (The IT Commandments: Put thy users first, above all other things). In my last couple of days down here at Disneyworld, I got back to...

Tags: Disney Corp., customer service

Blog posts 2006-07-14

RFID: Legitimate fear or fear-mongering?

RFID: Legitimate fear or fear-mongering?I agree, mostlyI agree with the viewpoint expressed in your final paragraph. The following is a bit misleading though:[i]"Walker's worry that his location could be tracked or that someone with a reciever ....payment information is not realistic, because the field of the receiver defines the...

Tags: credit card, RFID

Discussion threads 2006-04-10

Disney buys Pixar

Disney buys PixarDisney buys PixarOh great, now who is going to make fun of Disney in their movies?Bigger clash than corporate culturesForget the clashes mentioned in the article, there are much bigger issues here.You've got Apple, owned and run by Steve Jobs who sell electronic devices like computers, iPods and...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Digital media, Disney Corp., Pixar Animation Studios Inc., Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-01-24

Most popular travel sites: Hotels.com, TripAdvisor, Marriott

HitWise ranked most popular travel destinations in March 2005.www.hotels.comwww.tripadvisor.comwww.marriott.comwww.nps.govdisneyworld.disney.go.comwww.choicehotels.comwww.hilton.comwww.carnival.comdisneyland.disney.go.comwww.lodging.com

Tags: Hotels.com

Blog posts 2005-05-04