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SAP's Business ByDesign go to market

One of the niggling questions about SAP's Business ByDesign is just how the heck it is going to reach the numbers it says it wants to achieve. 10,000 new customers a year by 2010, many coming from this market, is ambitious. To date, SAP has been fuzzy about how that...

Tags: SAP AG, Steve Mann, Blogging, Tools & Techniques, Sales Strategy, Frame Relay, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Management, Sales, Networking, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-10-02

Howard Rheingold about our mobile world

Howard Rheingold about our mobile worldSousveillance as a means to counter SurveillanceI don't think we've met, but you know Steve Mann, and I am part of his group at the University of Toronto. I think the concept that Mann brought up, of "Sousveillance" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance) might be most pertinent.Why Sousveillance?Whereas...

Tags: Camera phones, Advertising & Promotion, Sousveillance, mobile, Steve Mann, Howard Rheingold

Discussion threads 2006-07-22

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Conspiracy theory: Yellow Submarine iPod touch on 9/9/9

already predictedNo, we didn't hear it here first. Merlin Mann's been predicting this particularly the Yellow Submarine iPod since 2007. Give credit where credit's due.RE: Conspiracy theory: Yellow Submarine iPod touch on 9/9/9Interesting theory. It would be nice to finally see the Beatles on iTunes since they clearly are a...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Merlin Mann, Beatles, conspiracy theory

Discussion threads 2009-08-27

SAP's pimposphere is driving me nuts

SAP has been quietly developing a new direction in marketing, seeking to make use of the new class of tools that is available. All good stuff you might think. Lowering the cost of marketing and getting more bang per buck are all to be welcomed in these austere times. Unfortunately,...

Tags: SAP AG, Twitter, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-03-02

Social media and enterprise IT demand gen -- a wrong fit?

Al Krueger's "Comet Branding Internet Radio" show always sparks interesting discussion. This morning I joined him, Brian Solis and Nicole Jordan to discuss "The Changing Role of PR as Media Evolves." While our PR fundamentals discussion was compelling, it momentarily branched into something that I feel is a bigger issue...

Tags: Information Technology, Social Media, Sales, Al Krueger, Brian Solis, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-10-22

Police Surveillance: Go Snoop, Yourself

Police Surveillance: Go Snoop, YourselfI think there is a balance to be struckI'm not happy with the proliferation of cameras you describe, and am opposed to fishing expeditions on principle. I'd much rather see more police on the street particularly in high crime areas, and more police officers who...

Tags: Corporate communications, Big Brother, Police Surveillance, camera

Discussion threads 2008-08-13

Apple: Shut down MobileMe immediately

Not long after blogging about Apple's MobileMe mea culpa ten days ago comes a leaked email memo purportedly authored by Apple CEO Steve Jobs and sent to all hands regarding the MobileMess. A few hours after the Ars Technica piece on the MobileMemo from Jobs, setteB.IT published...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., MobileMe, E-mail, 3G, Online Communications, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-08-05

Twitter: An IT failures management perspective

Twitter, the well-known social messaging service, has finally acknowledged the depth and severity of technical problems causing downtime and disruption to users. While such candor is refreshing, it also offers a glimpse into the kinds of management issues that underlie virtually all IT failures. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Twitter, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-05-26

Charles Phillips' troubling keynote

Charles Phillips' troubling keynoteStuffed ShirtDennis,You really are inventing controversy just to create it huh? You are not even at OpenWorld (becuase you were a crybaby that Oracle did not pay your airfare and hotel...boo hoo Dennis) and you are critical about Charles Phillips keynote?The keynote (for the REAL press that...

Tags: Blogging, Dennis, Oracle Corp., Stuffed Shirt

Discussion threads 2007-11-13

Charles Phillips' troubling keynote

At some 5,500 miles distance, there is always a risk of getting the wrong end of the stick in parsing keynotes. Fortunately, some of my Irregular colleagues had the benefit of a meeting with Oracle president Charles Phillips. Several of them were Twittering the conversation in real time. This allowed...

Tags: Innovation, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-11-12

Encyclopedia of American Cinema. FREE first chapter in the trial version (Mobile)

This illustrated Encyclopedia includes biographies of the best American directors and actors, reviews of the best American movies, and lists of awards. FREE first chapter in the trial version.Features Fully illustrated. Search for words or phrases. Navigate from Table of Contents or read page by page Add Bookmarks Text annotation...

Tags: Cinema, Mobile, Biology, Director, MobileReference, American

Software downloads 2007-09-27

Apple wins Beatles battle

Apple wins Beatles battleI don't know about the better lawyers thing.How stupid would that be if every technology company out there except Apple Computers could and would/will take advantage of this new use of technology to make money and Apple would have too sit on the sidelines because Apple Corps...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Eden, Apple Inc., Beatles, Ohhhh

Discussion threads 2006-05-08