
I captured this Great Blue in flight over the weekend with my Canon 7D and a Canon 300mm f4 IS with Canon 1.4x Extrender III handheld. Exif: 1/1250, ƒ/5.6, ISO 500, 420 mm
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I captured this Great Blue in flight over the weekend with my Canon 7D and a Canon 300mm f4 IS with Canon 1.4x Extrender III handheld. Exif: 1/1250, ƒ/5.6, ISO 500, 420 mm

This post is brought to you by VMware and their Online Forum 2013 Event Last weekend, I spent some time talking with an old friend. He’s the CIO of a small business in the Southwest US. Over the last few years, he’s been having a lot of trouble keeping things running with a operations budget [...]

Technology is king, so why are so many IT departments playing backseat roles? — Tech News and Analysis Quote: As employees feel increasingly entitled to take tech into their own hands via BYOD, the cloud and SaaS, IT is finding itself sidelined. The answer is for IT to redefine itself. Welcome to IT as a [...]

This post is brought to you by VMware and their Online Forum 2013 Event Does virtualization have a role the world of small business? Virtualization can bring a lot of value to organizations. That said, the organization has to be large enough to be able to use that value….or do they? Can a small business [...]

Global IT Spend Will Rise 4.1% To $3.8 Trillion In 2013, ‘A Calm Ocean With Turbulent Currents’, With Mobile Driving Growth | TechCrunch Quote: After devices, Gartner notes that enterprise software will be the second-biggest growth segment, up 6.4% to $297 billion, or just under 8% of all IT spend. Gartner notes that database management [...]

An American Robin sitting perfectly for a portrait. Captured with Canon 7D and Canon 400mm 5.6 L sitting atop my Induro CT314 Tripod.

This post is brought to you by VMware and their Online Forum 2013 Event One of the best parts about working in the technology field is having the ability to attend conferences where you can meet new people and learn about new technologies and products. Over the past few years, the budget for conferences has [...]

“Steering your car via the gas tank”, when cost trumps strategy Quote: …the budget is not a strategy, it is not a means of leadership, and it is simply an allocation of resources that should support rather than set the direction of where we need to go. Data science is not enough. We need data [...]

I captured this mockingbird at Spring Creek Forest Preserve. Captured with Canon 7D and Canon 400mm 5.6 L sitting on my Induro CT314 Tripod.

Marketing and the CIO race to see who can waste more money on CRM initiatives. Quote: What is the point here? The point is that currently leaders in Digital Marketing or Social Media or the office of the CIO are being given, as a side directive, to improve the customer experience, while they are still [...]
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Eric D. Brown is a technology consultant with an interest in using technology and strategy to solve marketing, communications, and education / training problems. If there's ever any free-time, you might find Eric taking photographs.
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I am a consultant with an interest in marketing technology, information technology and the merger of IT and Marketing. In addition, I'm a budding data scientist studying the use of user-generated content for knowledge management and decision support. I also like to take photographs. [Read More …]
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