Jonathan Distad

Wait, this isn’t true.  I saw you at the holiday party – you like to be heard.  At the heart of every company is an idea that was given a vision, some elbow grease, maybe some seed capital.  You have a small businesses like Hanson Silo or large multi-national businesses like Union Pacific that have […]

Wait, this isn’t true.  I saw you at the holiday party – you like to be heard.  At the heart of every company is an idea that was given a vision, some elbow grease, maybe some seed capital.  You have a small businesses like Hanson Silo or large multi-national businesses like Union Pacific that have […]

Hermit?  Okay, so be it.  But even hermits need to find other hermits to be curmudgeons with.  This is almost hands down the biggest ROI companies see when they start using social business software.  In the past, you had to go to your go-to person with a key question and that person would say “Oh, […]

Hermit?  Okay, so be it.  But even hermits need to find other hermits to be curmudgeons with.  This is almost hands down the biggest ROI companies see when they start using social business software.  In the past, you had to go to your go-to person with a key question and that person would say “Oh, […]

A few months ago I wrote up this list and will begin to address ways social champions can address the 20 reasons NOT to collaborate. These are the good old days.  Just a new version of the good old days.  Remember how the internet was going to replace the person and the businesses (.com’s) that […]

Thorn in your side.  What comes first – mobile or tablet?  Netflix has many devices to design to and this post by Luke Wroblewski is pretty powerful on what they did to get to their devices.  One thing that is clear – there is nothing that does everything well.  If you are a company like […]

Last week, InfoWeek released their buyers guide for social business software and its really nothing surprising.  They have what one could consider leaders: Jive, IBM, SocialText – all dependent on the end solution.  But as I always say, this isn’t a build it and they will come.  A prime example of this is LinkedIn.  I […]

QR codes – I have always liked them but thought of them as an oddity of the sheltered IT life that I live and then on Saturday morning on the way to meet a friend for coffee I drove by this: A huge QR code on every side of a building and it hit me, […]

Just like 8.5.1 did.  A few missed steps in that release but it was super solid and was a monumental shift in their UC offering.  8.5.2, which is soon to be released (June 11) has what you have come to expect from IBM Sametime, but fixed some glaring gaps such as that pestering NAT traversal […]

In Q3, IBM will be shipping their Portal 7 Mobile theme (insert applause).  This powerful theme takes advantage of the almost-ubiquitous used mobile web-kit.  This compliments IBM’s Mobile Portal Accelerator (MPA) which provides a much broader solution for multiple mobile device support.  The Mobile Theme provides a lightweight toolkit for extending portals to Android, iPhone […]

Today Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5Billion and I reached out to Aaron Sloman, our GM of our Microsoft West practice to ask what his take was on this merger. What was your initial reaction to the Skype purchase?   Seems like a lot of $$$, but it really accelerates the consumer voice strategy to align […]

comScore rolled out its most recent data on top selling smartphones and Android came out with a solid 34.7% (top) share compared to iPhone with 25.5%.  What is really astounding is that iPhone pulled just a .5% increase while Android jumped 6% in 3 months! There is obviously some traction around the Google platform and […]