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2008 Between the Lines

Welcome to the year in Between the Linesâ€"in about 5 minutes I hope. 2008 was a wild one and January feels like it was 20 years ago. Here’s a brief recap…. January: The year kicks off with the usual Consumer electronics show, which is then upstaged by...

Tags: Google Inc., Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, IT-spending Expectation, Document Management, Social Networking, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-18

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Accelerating Business Performance: San Francisco & Frankfurt Enterprise 2.0 Conferences

Next week sees the inaugural West Coast iteration of the Enterprise 2.0 conference, which is also an annual June event in Boston on the east coast. Sameer Patel and I will be running a track throughout the event which is focused on Selling the Case for...

Tags: Performance, Use Case, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Enterprise IT's trust level of Google will increase

That pie will increasingly favor Google. Though Google DOES need to support something more like what Amazon does, so you can just rent a Linux box in the cloud that grows and shrinks.Great potential here for Google; p.s. - dont make Yahoo's mistakesThere is great potential for Google from...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Servers, OPEN SOURCE, Enterprise IT, Google AppEngine, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

AT&T cuts churn rate; Activates 3.2 million iPhones; Touts network upgrades

It will be interesting to see if Droid ....... effects that churn rate.If AT&T wanted me in their network......AT&T must lower the deposit to $100 instead of $500.Sorry, AT&T! You lost and Sprint is the winner! :)What deposite?We paid no deposite.Not at the start.Many people just bought into the 2...

Tags: Smart phones, network upgrade, AT&T Corp., Apple iPhone, network, Verizon Communications Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Toilet Tissue, Quilted Northern, 60/Carton

Quilted Northern Goes Cheap Quilted Northern, relying on the long term customer base they established and that has the expectation of continuity, has now changed/cheapened their product. If you have old rolls compared to the newer packages the first noticeable changes are in size. To me,...

Tags: Georgia-Pacific Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Fake 'Conficker.B Infection Alert' spam campaign drops scareware

Not much they can do.Not much they can do.Email was never designed for security, and it's HARD getting everybody on the same page with a solution that works, because basically every solution we know of pretty much requires everybody to use it. But, unfortunately, it's difficult convincing people running email...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, Spam, Microsoft Corp., Conficker.B Infection Alert, spam campaign, sample message, Internet Service Provider, e-mail, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Microsoft wins seat at health IT table

this is shamIt is inconceivable that an anti christian organization like M$ would work with a christian hospital.Scary having your stuff running on MS softwareIt's scary to have any data about you stored on a Microsoft Infrastructure. Even scarier that it's your health records.Glad I don't use (or will...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Benefits, EMR, Microsoft Corp., health-IT, health care, interoperability

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Burnout - the Dangers of Remote Work Forces

The problem is as old as work itself: you're working as part of a team and seem to be doing twice as much  - or more - as your colleagues, yet no one seems to notice. It feels as though you're carrying the weight of entire projects on your back...

Tags: Team, Burnout, Team Management, E-mail, Process Improvement, Management, Online Communications, Quality, Business Operations, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-11

The Open College Textbook Act of 2009

ProfsWhat will the profs who force everyone to buy the latest edition of their own $125 textbook do now?Probably still the same thing.RE: The Open College Textbook Act of 2009You do know that this act will severely curtail the research that could lead to new curricula and textbooks?Why? It's because...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, textbook, Open College Textbook Act

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

Unrealistic expections and the latest Gmail outage

Gmail is down again? And you are giving them a free pass because they are Google? That is crazy talk. What you should be asking is "Why am I using this service that is constantly going down?" With an in-house solution you can have total control of your Microsoft...

Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, IT IS, expection, Google Gmail, latest Gmail outage, Gmail outage, Unrealistic expection, Google Inc., outage

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

Yahoo's sale of Alibaba.com stake opportunistic

There's a fair amount of hubbub about Yahoo's decision to sell its stake in Alibaba.com, but it's really just an opportunistic trade. Reuters notes that Yahoo is selling its entire 1.14 stake in Alibaba.com, China's B2B e-commerce giant, to net about $150 million. The move makes sense...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Alibaba.com, IPO, B2B, Investment, Taxes, Financial Planning, Financial Services, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-14

Jobsworths and Box-Wallahs...

We've all been behind the glass in bureaucratic purgatory at some point. Having waited in line at the department of motor vehicles or similar our number finally comes up and we interact with the bureaucrat, who has some issue with your missing some...

Tags: Job, Recruitment & Selection, Wiki, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Online Communications, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-13

Course Credits as a Reward for Collaboration

Distance learning -  providing access to learning when the source of information and the learners are separated by time and/or distance -  has been around since the dawn of postal delivery services. In the current economic climate further education seems likely to take...

Tags: Education, Distance Learning, Collaboration, Training, Enrollment, Straighterline, Employee Orientation Training Day, E-learning, Training And Certification, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-06

Is lower power consumption Windows 7's killer feature?

what killer feature?I don't know about OSX but Linux is more energy efficient than windoze.FYIsold by M$ under the namne of 'Windows' something.What is this "Windoze" you speak of?Never heard about it before....Anyway, can Linux run my programs? (Office, Photoshop, the latest games, Windows Live Essentials?) No? Oh.... Thats some...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, killer feature

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

Macworld without Apple: The show will go on

I get it.While at first blush, it really makes no sense; Apple quits Macworld?it sounds like Oscar quitting the Academy Awards. On the other hand, Oscar is a product of the Academy Awards and Macworld is actually more or less a product of Apple. While the linkage between...

Tags: Desktops, Mac World, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2009-09-01

'Skank' blogger talks, sues Google for $15m

Now the world knows: the "skanks of NYC" blogger is one Rosemary Port, a 27-year-old student at the Fashion Institute of Technology, and she is one pissed-off young lady. She not only has strong words for model Liskula Cohen, whose legal action outed her as the...

Tags: Google Inc., Duty, Lawyer, Port, Blogging, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-23

Apple's future TV: Can Web-based apps replace "channels," kill cable?

Gene Munster's living room of the future is centered around a Web-connected, iTunes-powered Apple-branded TV - a 50-inch, high-def, wall-mounted iPhone, if you will. And the stuff you'll watch on this "TV set" won't come in via Comcast or DirecTV. It will all stream in from - or be archived...

Tags: Web, Apple Inc., Apple TV, Apple iTunes, Cable, Munster, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-20

Social Media Revolution?

Extension of Advertisement channel ...Loved the post Oliver, especially the last line - "online variation of TV Home Shopping Networks" LOLNo doubts on the power of social media, but I'd commented on another blog that we can either use it as 'Speech' or a 'Conversation'. It's not that speech does...

Tags: social media, Social Media Revolution

Discussion threads 2009-08-17

Best Buy will not honor $9.99 HDTV deal

The question Best Buy has to ask themselvesis whether the bad PR is worse than the loss on the sales. Apparently they feel they can handle the PR backlash more than the losses on these sales. Which is probably right, because I can't imagine people declaring war on Best Buy...

Tags: Public relations, TVs, Sales strategy, TV & Home Theater, Financial services, Best Buy Co. Inc., HDTV

Discussion threads 2009-08-13

Are Silicon Valley VCs killing innovation?

VC's and InnovationThe title of your blog suggests that VC's are in control of innovation - a position that is correct only if entrepreneurs grant them that power.I am no fan of VC money (I get along with some VC's personally) because it is so expensive and the need for...

Tags: Entrepreneurship, investor

Discussion threads 2009-08-12