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Case Study On Why Reputation Management Is Important
[2009-06-29] Do you know what tactics your PR team is using in social media? UK furniture giant Habitat clearly doesn't and it just cost them a huge reputation blackeye in the Twitter community.
Controlling Online Defamation Through Reputation Management
[2009-06-15] Internet defamation can have a decidedly bad impact on your business and your personal life. Search engines make it possible to bring up information that is years out of date, completely inaccurate, or even about someone else who shares your name.
Practice Enterprise Architecture To Increase ROI
[2009-06-01] I have read many articles giving advice on how to sell a technology to the business. It seems that the ROI is a hard thing to derive and explain in business terms these days. You see it with SOA, Cloud Computing, Social Computing, and even with security (yes, having to prove the value of security)! Being a practitioner and addict of Enterprise Architecture, I find this method of thinking to be amusing and even backwards.
Making Your Cloud Server Architecture Secure
[2009-05-11] There are a lot of discussions going on about security and compliance in the cloud. The concerns are valid, but the belief that they can't be resolved are not. When you buy a cluster of servers and install them in your data center, are they secure? Of course not. There are many things one must do from the perspective of hardware, operating systems, process and policy, network, data center, and software in order to secure those servers and the applications or services running on them.
Managing Your Reputation Through Google Profiles
[2009-04-27] Google has launched a new way to search for individuals called Google Profiles.Setting up a Google Profiles account takes only a couple of minutes.
Using Social Computing Within The Corporate World
[2009-04-13] Continuing further with interesting video links that describe how large businesses are making use of social software, both inside and outside of the firewall, to help improve the way knowledge workers collaborate and share their knowledge (And how they can enhance their own interactions with their customers), here is another one I bumped into a couple of days back and which I can certainly recommend as being very insightful and thought-provoking, specially for those folks who may not buy too much into the concept of social computing within the corporate world.
Are You Up To Date on Web Analytics Technology?
[2009-03-30] Last week CMS Watch announced they have launched a new web analytics training course called: "Fundamentals of Web Analytics Technology." The 4 module course is taught by CMS Watch founder, Tony Byrne and costs $395. Check out the learning objectives of the Web Analytics Course below:
Competition Heats Amoung CRM Software Giants
[2009-03-16] Here are several excerpts from an interesting article by Bob Evans about the competition between the CRM software (and cloud computing) industry giants, (salesforce.com, Oracle, SAP and Microsoft), Global CIO: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Has Declared War - Are You Enlisting?. If this topic interests you, I urge you to read the entire source article for a much more comprehensive analysis:
Accurate Reports And Monitoring For Social Media
[2009-03-03] I am crossing posting this from AppGap as I am now using the free version of this tool and find it quite helpful. The new Web offers great transparency if you are able to find what is being said on a topic in the maze of information. I recently commented on ten reputation management tools see - Ten Ways to Track Your Online Reputation. A few days ago, I spoke with Aaron Newman, CEO of Techrigy about their offering in this space. As we started the conversation I realized I had his book, Enterprise 2.0 Implementations, on my desk. The review copy was given to me after I interviewed Aaron Fulkerson of MindTouch, the book's technical editor. I have only read a few chapters so far but it looks like a great resource.
Making Agile Software Truly Agile
[2009-02-16] Earlier I posted Focusing on decisions to improve the software end product and I decided that this week's posts would be a series of follow-ups on how decision management can and should impact software development. Today on how it should impact/be a part of Agile, tomorrow on Model-Drive Engineering and Thursday on DSLs (Domain Specific Languages).
Understanding The Differences In Business And Technology
[2009-02-02] Business relies on technology to reach the customer, technology relies on business to find those customers, yet sometimes there is a failure to communicate that leaves everyone wondering what happened.
Integrating Predictive Analytics With Business Rules
[2009-01-14] Mike Gualtieri published a nice piece on business rules engine algorithms last July that I wanted to point out to my readers. Mike summarizes the mainstream rules engine algorithms into those that deliver inferencing at run time, those that execute sequentially and those that execute sequentially but have compile-time algorithms to sequence rules correctly. While I have a few comments on Mike's report, I was struck both by its measured tone and a great piece of advice:
Open Source SOA Provides Major Business Advantages
[2009-01-05] Dave Linthicum wrote a post today called Open Source SOA provides some major advantages. In his post Dave stated:
Risk Management In All Aspects of A Company Is Important
[2008-12-08] There is a link between IT risk and the overall company risk posture. Techtarget has a fascinating read for every security engineer out there, including the CISO. It is hard to quantify risk.
Taking VMWare Out In Chunks Made Easy
[2008-11-24] About five years ago, I worked with VMWare, and noticed that the VMWare security model worked great when pages where called as one chunk, so if you called the vmCtxMenu.html without a login context the page would come up non-functional.
The Pressure Is On IT To Help Businesses Transform
[2008-11-17] I was invited to speak at a forum for IT executives in Detroit this week sponsored by Information Week. The purpose of the forum as described in the agenda goes like this...
Are You the CIO Who Keeps Things Running or an Agent of Change?
[2008-11-03] I just read Dave Linthicum's post on SOA World titled Should you Fire your CIO? This is a continuation of a discussion that has been brewing in the blogsphere for the past few months that started after the Burton Group commented that a new CIO was often a key ingredient for some successful SOA implementations.
Planning and Intergration of On-Premise Applications Via Cloud
[2008-10-20] Here are several excerpts from an informative article by Mathew Schwartz, Integrating Your Cloud And On-Premises Applications: Most small and midsize businesses are eyeing one or more software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, yet have already made numerous investments in on-premises software. And despite the potential cost upsides of making the move to SaaS, one crucial success factor for running part or all of your business in the cloud is going to be the ability to tie cloud computing applications to on-premises systems.
Financial Struggles With Enterprise Software
[2008-10-07] Here's a timely post by Thomas Wailgum, Editor of CIO magazine, Help! We Need ERP and CRM Software, But We Can't Afford It Right Now!:
'Cloud' Should be The Starting Point for Startups
[2008-09-22] I wrote about lessons learned from the Dot-Com bust. In the 1990's, startups were a dime a dozen and VC money was flowing endlessly. Back then, startups were requiring huge sums of money just to get their infrastructure in place. Many of these companies could not afford the initial funding to build scalability into their infrastructure...a huge risk!
Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies
[2008-09-08] IT industry analysts Gartner published their 2008 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies.
CIOs Taking Advantage of SaaS
[2008-08-25] Here are several excerpts from an article by Zach Church a News Writer with SearchCIO-Midmarket.com, SaaS: The (Data Center) Killer App:
Selling Social Media to Your Boss and Yourself
[2008-08-15] A few days back, Chris Brogan did it again and put together a very insightful and helpful blog post, specially for those folks who are not so sure about how to sell Social Computing to their managers and whoever else up in the management chain.
Engage Your Visitors to Make Your Site Successful
[2008-07-28] When a business's Web site isn't generating the leads or bringing in the sales that were planned, often the first thing an owner does is throw money at a search engine optimization firm to bring in more traffic. More traffic = more business, right?
Gartner's Top 10 Technologies of the Future
[2008-07-14] Dr. Jim Amderson posted in The Busines of IT blog about the Gartner Top 10 Technologies that they think will change the world in the next four years.
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