Michael Porter

So I’m doing some guest blogging over at IBM’s Social Business Blog.  IBM just announced their “Ready for Social Business” Program.  I’ll be exploring the program a bit over the next few days.  Basically any partner participating in this program come pre-screened with a level of experience and even solutions that enhance a number of […]

  In a number of industries, companies have built custom built web sites or portals.  I’ve seen it in healthcare and in government for example.  While I cannot claim to be a complete expert on every single vertical portal out there.  I’ve seen enough to get a broad general outline.   These types of portals can […]

Rich Wood blogs about the recent Yammer acquisition over on the Microsoft Blog.  I’ll let Rich tell his own story but here’s my two cents: Rich pegs it about the short term implications.  I don’t think we’ll see anything incorporated beyond any existing integration between Yammer and something like SharePoint This highlights the importance of […]

I’ve started to hear more and more about Open Stack.  It was originally developed by Rackspace and then pushed into a standard at Openstack.org.  From CRN we see that IBM is launching into support for OpenStack IBM (NYSE:IBM) embraces OpenStack, the open-source standard used for building cloud-computing stacks, but believes a key piece of its […]

I’m always looking for interesting ways to look at Social Collaboration and best practices.  John Brunswick has a post on exactly that.  He notes the three principals of social collaboration. while my favorite is leverage a ubiquitous social fabric, his other points resonate……………especially if you want to cut down the silos he mentions in his […]

Tech Crunch has an interesting article about all the automation going on in the social media space.  If you want a good sign that companies are starting to realize that they no longer control the conversation about their brand and feel overwhelmed with how to manage so many conversations, this article will point that out.  […]

I get to a lot of clients and so see a fair number of interesting password requirements.   Like many of you I wonder how “secure” things will be when setting up a password becomes an exercise in frustration.  Here’s the worst though from Mashable.

Some large software firms are buying up social marketing companies pretty quickly. Lately, the buy-up announcements are coming at faster than one announcement per week.  Oracle bought Vitrue a couple weeks ago.  Salesforce bought Buddy Media. Oracle just bought Collective Intellect as well.  One thing to note, much of this is a combination of big […]

Some large software firms are buying up social marketing companies pretty quickly. Lately, the buy-up announcements are coming at faster than one announcement per week.  Oracle bought Vitrue a couple weeks ago.  Salesforce bought Buddy Media. Oracle just bought Collective Intellect as well.  One thing to note, much of this is a combination of big […]

Slashdot highlighted a great post on an alternative method to A/B testing.  Those of you in the commerce related world are probably very familiar with A/B testing and I’m willing to bet that you have achieved decent results.  However, it has one problem, it takes a lot of time to set it up, review the […]

Peter Bregman has a great post at Harvard Business Review about managing the flood of information we see every day.  In it he sets up the problem of so much information available and the possible solution.  The short answer is focus.  However focus requires that we define not only what we will focus on but […]

Live Blogging at the IBM Web Experience Conference: Mary Bird Nance does a great job working with a variety of companies to define vision and create a justification for the use of portal and social technologies.  She’s a pro at working with clients to understand their needs and where they should go. Anyway, she and […]