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Is Google trading access for positive media coverage?

<update:> I received this message from Jeff Jarvis regarding this post: "I had no access to Google. I have no idea why the words "generous access" are in quotes. Those certainly are not my quotes. I chose to write my book from a distance without any...

Tags: Google Inc., Jarvis, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-24

Vendor relationship management: viable or theory?

While at LeWeb3, I caught Doc Searls session entitled "Turning the tables: What happens when the users are in charge." Doc is co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto and widely regarded as a leading thinker on customer relationships. Susan Kish at LunchoverIP does an excellent job bullet pointing Doc's presentation....

Tags: Health Insurance, Theory, Idea, Health Care, Vendor Relationship Management, Doc, E-lance, Business Reality, Ed, Jarvis, Benefits, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Insurance, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-12-17

Dell and the wish for Apple's cool

At a briefing in San Francisco on Monday, Michael Dell and other company officials presented a vision for "Dell 2.0," a leaner, meaner selling machine. However, from comments after the huddle, there appears to be a monkey on Dell's back and it's wearing an Apple t-shirt. Apple...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Apple Inc., Jarvis, Apple Brand, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2007-09-11

Does Internet democracy work?

How effective is democracy on the Internet?A few weeks ago, I challenged Jeff Jarvis, one of Web 2.0's most fervent democratizers, to debate my forthcoming book Cult of the Amateur. Jarvis, who regards me as the digital anti-christ and a "Stalinist", wasn't sure if he wanted to debate me....

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-05-30

Power blogging 101

Want to be a power blogger? Be transparent, find a niche and post in massive quantities. And then be prepared to address issues that arise as you become a big-time blogger. Heres a look at some of the key issues addressed at an AlwaysOn panel on power blogging watch conference....

Tags: Blogging, Jarvis, blog, blogger, Spiers, America Online Inc., Dealbreaker, Rojas, public relations, Engadget

Blog posts 2007-01-30

Nothwithstanding Net non-neutrality, should others follow where ABC-TV is going (Internet TV)?

Via Dave Winer, Jeff Jarvis has penned a commentary on Disney's announcement that it will be making some of ABC's television programs viewable over the Internet. Wrote Jarvis: TV has finally exploded. And if other media — newspapers, magazines, and even online companies — don’t watch...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Cable, Podcasts, Network technology, Broadband Internet, Disney Corp., TV, Jarvis, Internet

Blog posts 2006-04-10

Additional Resources

NEXT09: deconstructing the enterprise gulf

Attending NEXT09 was a breath of fresh air for me. As seems to be the way, there's always a good showing by controversial polemicists. You won't for example get two more strident and different speakers than Jeff Jarvis and Andrew Keen. As an enterprisey guy, Keen's assessment...

Tags: Google Inc., Social Computing, Conference, CODA, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-05-07

The credit crisis, visualized

Here's a great, visually-entertaining presentation that explains how the credit crisis started, grew, and ruined the system for everyone. The video is the work of graphic designer Jonathan Jarvis, and explains everything from leverage to the motivation behind subprime mortgages. The credit crunch, simplified and clarified, in...

Tags: Crisis, Corporate Communications, Leadership, Marketing, Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-20

Social silly season

I'm often asked whether getting into the fashion for all things social is something enterprises should contemplate. Given the volume of noise coming from the likes of Jeremiah Owyang, Forrester analyst and other social media/brand mavens, it's hardly a surprise. Enterprise reality though is an altogether different thing from the...

Tags: SAP AG, Twitter, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-02-17

Imitate Google, or risk getting buried?

"Google is an avalanche and it has only just begun to tumble down the mountain," according to Jeff Jarvis, new media talking head, Buzzmachine blogger, and recent author of "What Would Google Do?" -- a tech-infused, Machiavellian book that advises you, your company and your industry to study and mimic...

Tags: Google Inc., Internet, Blogging, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Finance, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-28

Dell shuffles management deck; Focuses on global units

Dell ended 2008 with a management shakeup. The company said Wednesday that it has realigned its business to focus on four global groups: Large enterprise, public, small and medium sized business and consumer, which is already set up as a global unit. Here's a...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Mark Jarvis, Smb/Sme, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-31

Information Age versus Tactile Experience

Venture capitalist Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, an early stage fund specializing in investing in IT enabled services 'that have the potential to change the structure of markets', blogged ideas yesterday about the internet's disruption of retail. This is epitomized by the sad state of...

Tags: Sears Roebuck & Co., Mail-order, Internet, Sales Strategy, Sales Channel, Sales Force Management, Sales, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-12-27

News to know: Google; Web Olympics; Patch Tuesday; iPhone

Notable headlines: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Will the Olympics melt the Internet? Time Warner's Olympic boost, courtesy NBC More worries for Beijing visitors Phil Wainewright: Hello, Google, is anyone in there? Larry Dignan: Google: Our AOL investment is ‘impaired’ ...

Tags: apple iphone, google inc., web, larry dignan, health care, internet, vertical industries, benefits, e-mail, healthcare, microsoft windows vista (longhorn), enterprise software, software, human resources, online communications, operating systems, microsoft windows

Blog posts 2008-08-08

Dell's 'Cloud Computing' and other strange stuff

 and When I took a wee poke at Dell the other day I could not possibly have known that labeling something Hybrid and expecting us to meekly gobble it up was only the tip of what can only be described as an ill-conceived marketing strategy iceberg....

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hoover, Cloud Computing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-06

News to know: Intel; Oracle; Microhoo; iPhone; Online video

Notable headlines: Dancho Danchev: Remote code execution through Intel CPU bugs Nate McFeters: Symantec says Microsoft Access ActiveX attacks to increase Robin Harris: FTP: untrustworthy file transfer Dennis Howlett: Enterprise 2.0 looking more like 1.0? Dana Blankenhorn:...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Oracle Corp., Online Video, Video, Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., 3G, Corporate Communications, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-15

Time Warner Cable's metering plans: Why not?

Time Warner Cable will begin testing Internet metering in Beaumont, Texas Thursday in a trial and that angst from the chattering class is palpable. According to an Associated Press report that set off the blogger-angst-o-meter: (Time Warner Cable's) tiers will range from $29.95 a month for...

Tags: Time Warner Cable Inc., Internet, Blogging, Telecom & Utilities, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-03

Michael Dell's 2008 compensation almost halved, but security tab remains

Dell CEO Michael Dell saw his total compensation in fiscal 2008 fall to $2.33 million from $4.5 million in 2007 as his stock option awards fell. However, Dell's security bill topped $1 million for the second year in a row. According to Dell's proxy statement filed with the SEC...

Tags: Security, Compensation, Dell Computer Corp., Benefits, Human Resources, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-02

Intel CEO Paul Otellini woos the Oracle crowd

Intel CEO Paul Otellini went highbrow in his keynote slot at Oracle OpenWorld, invoking American architectural icon Frank Lloyd Wright. He was preceded yesterday by rival AMD's CEO Hector Ruiz, who chatted with partners during his keynote see below. Both essentially gave promotional talks, which they...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Paul Otellini, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Data Centers, Corporate Communications, Storage, Semiconductors, Processors, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing, Components, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-13

CNN/YouTube debate: world-changing or a bore?

How are we to judge the new debate format which boasted such innovations as a talking snowman questioning presidential candidates about global warming? Reaction to CNN's video-questions-from-voters debate Monday night varied from praise to contempt, reports Wired NewsAs the eight Democratic candidates answered questions from video voters, the pundits were...

Tags: Elections

Blog posts 2007-07-25

News to know: Spokesblogs; social networking sweepstakes; iPhone countdown

Notable headlines:Blogstorm: Valleywag outs Federated Media's spokesblogs? Find out what all the fuss is about... TechMeme Jeff Jarvis Dan Farber Scott RosenbergPlaxo 3.o gets social with multi-way synchSocial networking sweepstakesLinkedIn to open up to developersMatthew Ingram: Is it too late for LinkedIn to catch Facebook?Dan Farber: Yahoo's search for a social graphSadagopan: The...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-06-25