Michael Porter

Liza Sisler (@lizasisler on twitter) pointed me to this article on collaboration on Information Week titled, “The Right Way to Get Employees to Collaborate“.  Michael Sampson has obviously been around the block when it comes to deploying collaboration solutions and I completely agree with his main premise.  Just building something and throwing it over the […]

I’m speaking in a webinar this Thursday.  Don Lewis of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota will be spending most of the time speaking about what they’ve done with Social Business and some best practices.  He’s been a key person and champion out there.  Ted Stanton, social business guru extraordinaire, will also be speaking.  Feel […]

Cody Burleson has a great video post with links to other posts on the subject of User Impersonation.  Impersonation allows you to be logged in as a one user while acting as another user.  This comes in really handy for any customer service rep who handles issues related to a web site.  The CSR can […]

By way of Tony Karre who emailed me about it comes this article in Beta News by Joe Wilcox.  It’s a really good article with lots of IDC and Nielsen data laying out what’s been happening with smartphones and market share over the last year.  He also notes a skew against Android by these IDC […]

Brian Solis spoke at the IBM Get Social event in Santa Clara, CA.  He’s an analyst at the Altimeter and focuses his research on media, social media, and ongoing impacts to that.   Overall, his presentation was really good.  He takes a pragmatic approach to social business and highlights the difference between just having a facebook […]

For the entire history of the portal, when someone asked, “When should I use a portal instead of a content management system?”, the answer was easy.  When you have to login, surface applications, personalize the experience, and otherwise do more than simple content display, then use a portal.  However, that’s been changing of late.  This […]

Cloud is hot and Boeing has started to dip their toes in the water.  Jim Rubert gave a great presentation on options and pitfalls.  If you have access to the presentation, you should download it. Key Points In 2009, cloud hit the top of the hype cycle In 2010, they started into the trough of […]

You’ve all probably heard of Verizon.  Supporting 94 million customers presents quite a challenge. They are at IBM’s Impact conference talking about what they’ve done.  They had quite the crew ranging from the architects to the developers. Verizon wireless manages their own development, their own network, and their own systems.  That gives Verizon unique access […]

Stefan Liesche and Jeff Seifert presented on Portal Now and creating an exceptional web experience.  They’ve had a quick hit offering where you can get a portal up and running in about three weeks.  In keeping with the continual change we see, they have updated it to take into account these change.  But first, a […]

IBM is combining their various commerce products to create a more cohesive offering. I’m not the biggest expert but it’s obvious they are extending functionality and integrating capability.   They held a session on Smarter Commerce and their offerings.  From what they had a few years ago with just WebSphere Commerce, they’ve grown to cut across […]

Yes, I’m a portal and collaboration guy so you may be wondering what I’m doing at a conference focused on commerce, middleware, and other plumbing.  Truth is a lot of the people interested in plumbing have a huge need for portal and collaboration so I come to support Perficient as we talk to clients about […]

I’ve been thinking a fair amount on motivation of knowledge workers in the ad hoc task driven world we live in today and ran across a TEDTalks video by Daniel Pink.  Great video with surprising results. The video was good enough for me to repost and to comment on what that means on the Spark […]