Category: Tech

  • Pressure from the cloud

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    No, we’re not talking meteorology here! I have been keeping an interested eye on some of the developments from Amazon with their Amazon Web Services, so when I saw the following tweet from friend/colleague/troublemaker @MasterMark, it made me sit up! Oh, dude! It’s a war, and cloud is a battlefield. #orcl swallows #sun, and days…

  • “New-Generation Workers” Want Technology Their Way

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    Today I caught a discussion on the findings of a survey carried out by Accenture. Millennial generation students and employees (those aged 14 to 27) expect to use their own technology and mobile devices for work and are increasingly choosing their place of employment based on how accommodating companies are to their personal technology preferences…

  • An Object Lesson On The Value Of Social Media Proficiency

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    Through my twitter stream, I came across this post, which is quite simply a fantastic account of how a company which understands the opportunity behind promoting and supporting its employees in their external blogging efforts, can harness the power of the medium. Today, we used our social media machine to accomplish something big and visible…

  • The road back from “lousy”

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    Bruce has posted a quote which got me thinking…. “No IdeaJam is not the issue, just people afraid of Domino applications as they have only been exposed to lousy ones in the past” Putting it mildly I’d say! I’m a strong believer that the “bad reputation” suffered by Notes is far too often due to…

  • Guess the culprit…

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    Content from this Web site that is not provided under an agreement, such Content is not provided as “public domain”; you may use such Content for your personal, non-commercial use only and only in connection with your use of XXXXX. Yes, afraid so, its IBM with their Terms of Use on the Lotus Symphony website.…

  • Chris Brogan: What Social Media Does Best

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    Chris Brogan has a great post in his series on social media. This list is a must read! Blogs allow chronological organization of thoughts, status, ideas. This means more permanence than emails. Podcasts (video and audio) encourage different types of learning, and in portable formats. Social networks encourage collaboration, can replace intranets and corporate directories,…