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Many Small and Mid-sized Businesses (SMB’s) have moved to the cloud for a portion or in some instances, all, of their IT application needs. Most transitions to the cloud that I’ve been a part of started with moving websites from an internal server to a cloud based hosted provider. This transition of hosting websites to [...]
Last month I wrote a post titled “Is Big Data to Big for Small Business?” where I asked the questions: Is there a place for small organizations in the world of big data? Can small businesses take advantage of this ‘big data’ stuff? Are small business’ data-sets even large enough to be considered ‘big data’? [...]
Why personas can be a bad idea for content marketing Quote: I guess that brings me full circle: go ahead and create personas. It can never be a bad idea to start your content marketing by thinking about the people you’re addressing. But if your nice, neat persona templates are acting as a substitute for [...]
Caught this Swallow feed its baby on our fence. Captured with Canon 7D and Canon 400mm 5.6 L Handheld
When Does Customer Sentiment Matter? – semanticweb.com Quote: The company was able to look through customer verbatim online comments to filter for negative impressions of its password recovery capabilities. “We haven’t paid enough attention to it even though password problems have been among the top five in our call centers for years,” he said. After [...]
Another from the archives of our trip to Wilmington NC in 2008. Captured this gull with a Canon 40D and Canon 100-400 L handheld. EXIF: 1/500, ƒ/8, ISO 400, 400 mm
Innovate on Purpose: Breaking out of the m (old) for disruptive innovation Quote: When you want truly disruptive innovation, you will need to break the mold, step out into completely new technologies, capabilities and delivery systems. The reason innovation appears to be stagnant in many industries is that few firms are willing to disrupt the [...]
Captured with a canon 7D and Canon 400mm 5.6 L handheld Exif: 1/250, ƒ/7.1, ISO 400, 400 mm
There are many ways to make coffee. You’ve got your pre-ground coffee. You’re pre-packaged coffee. Whole Bean coffee. Self-roasted coffee. Instant coffee. And as many types of coffee, there are just as many ways to make coffee. Drip. French Press. Instant. Percolator. Etc etc. For the purposes of this post, let’s look at three ways [...]
I had the pleasure of moderating / hosting a twitter chat yesterday (Tuesday April 30 2013) involving the topic of Innovation & the CIO using the hashtag #CIOInnovate. The chat was sponsored by Dell and their Chief Innovation Officer Jim Stikeleather (@stikeyoda) joined the conversation and provided some excellent insight and feedback on the topic [...]
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