Jonathan Distad

As IBM puts it, mobile is not a secondary requirement on portals or websites these days.  With the purchase of WorkLight, IBM has proven that they are serious players in the mobile market.  With the release of the mobile theme for Portal 8, we start to see the leanings of support for responsive design.  Now, […]

Last week at the IBM Web Experience Conference, they announced the IBM Experience Suite as part of the the updated Portal 8 announcement.  There are some really cool features and one of them is the managed pages functions.  Here is a great video on it. Although, incredibly basic and with little real work work flow […]

Aside from the watching the lunar eclipse, there is another reason why hundreds of people are making their way to Texas today – the IBM Exceptional Web Experience conference in Austin, TX.  The preeminent conference highlighting the great web experience tools the the IBM product suite such as: IBM Portal IBM Connections IBM Experience Modeler […]

IBM released today the IBM Connection Suite that combines the features and functions of: IBM Connections IBM Sametime Advanced IBM Sametime SUT Lite Lotus Quickr FileNet There are some nice videos on the capabilities which really start to see some of the Project Northstar coming to fruition. Now, there is nothing that you couldn’t do […]

Yet another, ‘why didn’t I think of that’.  Actually, the other evening I did talk with a friend over dinner about something similar to Zaarly.com.  I am an addict of looking and sometimes buying stuff on Craigslist but it is certainly not too visually appealing.  Zaarly is a the fix.  As a test, I posted […]

I presented on social business strategies today at IBM Impact 2012 in Las Vegas.  It was a packed room with great questions and collaboration.  Here is a copy of my presentation, as promised:

My brother in law, Aaron Keller, penned a nice article on Pinterest and Twitter.  Now, he is a design type and does all things great in branding so I would expect nothing less from the man.  Nothing that I guess one hasn’t thought about for a while but what this has raised is the capabilities […]

One of the great add-ons to the Sharepoint stack is Newsgator Social Sites.  I was on a recent client who is a highly regulated healthcare company and even though the Newsgator has a great mobile app, it wouldn’t work within their security model.  That model required that all BYOD (bring your own device) employees needed […]

The New York Times had a nice article about the purchase of Instagram by Facebook for $1Billion.  Whether you think its worth it or not, it begs a bigger question – especially for the larger enterprise community.  Does that make mobile mainstream?  This purchase didn’t kickstart the mobile revolution but for a lot of IT […]

Analytics on social platforms has long plagued us.  You can get basic usage statistics like the below: Not bad, but not a ton you can really do with that.  Most platforms, out of the box, have pretty poor analytics and that is becoming an issue for companies.  We are telling employees, customers, whoever to tag, rate, share, […]

Today, TechCrunch reported that Pinterest, the pinning interest site has hit 11.7 MILLION unique monthly views – faster than any website in history.  The questions comes up is: How does this affect my enterprise?  Simple, if you aren’t looking at this or you have someone who says this is a fad and not enterprise worthy […]

This came from a friend and thought it humorous enough to post.  Enjoy and happy Monday!