Michael Porter

I’m at the Web Experience Conference today and will be speaking. Here’s the information: Tech-B09 How to Get Your Social Portal Users Engaged from the Beginning with Interactive Requirements 1:45 PM Meeting Room 406 You’ve seen it before, a project kicks off, everyone’s excited and then you hit requirements sessions, a mind numbing attempt to […]

Troy Larsen at Business2Community.com has an article entitled, “Collaboration is a Culture, Not a Set of Tools” (Thanks to Erin Moloney (@ErinE) for pointing me to the article) In it he speaks to a recent quote from RedHat CEO Jim Whitehurst giving that short and spiffy little sound bit. while collaboration is an important characteristic […]

I had the opportunity to guest blog at the Social  Biz blog.  Here’s a brief excerpt. Everyone wants to be treated as someone special.  Don’t you get a thrill when you check in to your hotel and they thank you for the 20+ nights you’ve stayed there this year and give you a “free” upgrade?You […]

I had the opportunity to guest blog at the Social  Biz blog.  Here’s a brief excerpt. Everyone wants to be treated as someone special.  Don’t you get a thrill when you check in to your hotel and they thank you for the 20+ nights you’ve stayed there this year and give you a “free” upgrade?You […]

Over 75% of our portal or web site related projects these days have some mobile component. If they aren’t doing it then they are making some serious plans for it.  That brings up a lot of questions on how to design a site to fit all the different channels that will hit it.  The new […]

Techcrunch has an interesting article about the top 10 biggest mistakes made with Amazon Web Services. While I don’t want to just copy what they say, I can see a lot of easy mistakes.  For those who think in terms of an internal data center that has to scale to meet all future needs and […]

CRN has a note about VMWare’s intention to launch a more secure Dropbox for the enterprise.  Both Dropbox and Box.com have nifty solutions that make it really easy to share and sync documents.  Their offerings shouldn’t be confused with other collaboration vendors who allow you to share your files via a web based interface or […]

It looks like Rich Wood is well on his way as this is the second time I’ve posted on a nice post of his.  I’ll let Rich’s post stand by itself and just re-iterate my thoughts on the importance of UX.  User Experience counts the overall experience a user has on a specific site. It […]

So while our portal blog cuts a broad swathe around the various portal vendors, we have posted a number of times on IBM related articles and best practices.  Perficient just launched our IBM Blog.  You will see us blogging here and there with some cross-posting mixed in.  For now, IBM posts of any kinds across […]

Probably eight out of ten clients start out asking for customization of some kind.  Usually, the customization broken into two categories: Give users a page like My Yahoo! or iGoogle.  Let them add portlets or widgets at will and let them customize the portelts themselves like we do with weather or stock Let users define […]

Techcrunch has an article out about why Apple and Facebook should be terrified of Google Glasses.  I think the idea of the glasses has merit although I suspect the first iteration of these things will need a lot of work.  But given what they could do for you and how they could integration voice, map/directions, […]

Brian Solis has an excellent post on the psychology of social engagement.  It’s worth your reading his entire take on things and the research he references.  A lot of you might read it and say, “Duh!, I already knew that” but I would say that when someone codifies it, we are the better for being […]