Three steps to make social media sell
February 10, 2012
Knowing how to update your Facebook page, write an engaging blog, or create a viral YouTube video is, commercially speaking, worthless without knowing how social media platforms produce sales. The truth is that social media’s sudden arrival and instant popularity is causing most entrepreneurs to lose perspective on the ultimate goal:selling. In this sluggish economy, revenue trumps being most “liked” or highly “engaged with.”
Microsoft on-demand exchange having stability problems
May 22, 2011
Exchange Online has downtime problems again | www.computerworld.com
Microsoft's move into the cloud is far behind other on-demand mail services such as Google and yahoo. Will these stability issues give Google's email and calendar programs for corporations a chance to take over?
People do not pay for Radio, TV, or digital newspapers
May 7, 2011
8 in 10 Won’t Pay for Online Daily Newspaper | www.marketingcharts.com
There are plenty of business models where the content is given away. If digital newspapers attract enough readers, then they will also attract enough advertizers.
Ma Bell to AT&T, "the consumer rules the new economy".
April 30, 2011
Ma Bell Stifled Innovation, AT&T May Do the Same | uk.ibtimes.com
When Ma Bell ruled the phone lines, most products were developed for businesses first and only later small versions were done for consumers. Today, it is the opposite. Products are built for consumers first and only later developed for businesses. This change is so significant that it will be difficult for even AT&T to stifle creativity.
Amazon makes the money on the reader software - Not hardware
April 19, 2011
The Kindle is an iPad Accessory, And That's Why It's Still Going to Be Huge | www.businessinsider.com
People own Kindles and iPads. The great thing is that you can read kindle books on your ipad with the kindle reader. Amazon has been smart to focus on the content and the software that runs on the kindle. If they make it run on all the tablet platforms, then it could be a solution like Microsoft office is to productivity tools.
My intellectual property creation is not manageable
April 18, 2011
With all of the recent new applications being developed for the tablet (iPad is my case), the ability to track company Intellectual property is getting more difficult and protecting these assets is nearly impossible. Yet IT is challenged with maintaining corporate assets with regards to digital information.
Social Media - A Terabyte of Knowledge or Noise each day
April 10, 2011
The amount of data that can be gathered by companies on Facebook, twitter, and the many other sources of social media can add up to a terabyte of data a day (and increasing) for companies with even a meager amount of brand recognition. We finally have a source of new information that is like drinking from a fire hose – literally. There is so much information becoming available that all companies are racing to understand and manage this new source of market feedback.
Virtualization to include Cloud Applications
March 19, 2011
Desktop virtualization is beginning to be more than a virtualized version of Microsoft office and file storage. It is also becoming a standard virtual set of cloud applications. I attended my monthly CIO meeting last night and the topic was virtualization.
Saving Power in the Data Center
March 13, 2011
The speed of servers continues to grow. This could lead to an ever larger and larger power utilization in the data center. But there three main approaches to reducing power consumption in the data center. You can virtualize your servers, you can outsource to the clound and you can cnetralize your storage in a SAN.
Solid State Drives belong in the data center
March 5, 2011
The speed at which solid state drives can perform should make them a heavy part of your data center drive strategy. But somehow that still has not happened. We still see most companies sticking with fiber channel drives using traditional hard drive platters. This is in spite of the performance gains. So just why do we not see more solid state drives in the data center.
SOPA and the wisdom of Yogi Berra
January 19, 2012
Larger wafers present a growth opportunity for LEDs
January 6, 2012
Smartphones threaten digital camera industry
December 1, 2011
Google music launches: The end of the end for the music industry
November 22, 2011
The move to the cloud will impact multiple industries
November 17, 2011