Whose cloud is it anyway?
We were invited to demonstrate our Referral Management Solution at Friday's Cloud Computing Roundtable, put on by TechCrunch. The provocative title of the event was "Whose cloud is it anyway?", and TechCrunch invited a who's who in cloud computing to help resolve the issue.
BarCamp Africa
Last Saturday I attended BarCamp Africa, an event hosted at the Google Campus in Mountain View. BarCamp Africa brought people, institutions and enterprises interested in Africa - as a topic, an opportunity, or a place of action - together in one...
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Traditional CRM vendor fights back by integrating SharePoint, Outlook. Microsoft may be engaged in a price war with Salesforce.com, but traditional server-based CRM vendors have hardly rolled over and cried uncle. Today, CDC Software announced...
Read more about Traditional CRM vendor fights back...The End of SaaS
Sometimes, there is nothing much to add. So I present to you - words of wisdom - as could only be articulated by the leader of a stagnating on-premise software vendor emotionally tied to the "cocaine" of endless upgrade fees and maintenance...
Read more about The End of SaaS...Run by Wall St? Cause or Company?
In light of the Yahoo! - Microsoft fiasco, fellow bloggers Larry Dignan and Vinnie Mirchandani have been asking the question whether there is too much emphasis on just one stakeholder - the shareholder. After all, shouldn't a technology company (or...
Read more about Run by Wall St? Cause or Company?...Headlines-Using Twitter to Test Headlines
Twitter is a great way to test your headlines and short copy effectiveness. Hundreds of followers and a 140 characters maximum makes for a powerful marketing test environment. Twitter is a quick and efficient way to see if your headlines convert...
Read more about Headlines-Using Twitter to Test Headlines...How to rate the fully satisfactory performer
Probably the toughest call that managers have to make is how to rate the individual whose performance all year has been fully satisfactory, where there are no important deficiencies that have to be worked on, and where the person has made some...
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