Punching Soup - Tag: concepts

The Virtuous Cycle of PPC and SEO

Niel Robertson — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:53:33 -0700

Many companies ask the question “Should I do PPC or SEO first?” Our own Dan Tisser wrote a cogent argument for why PPC should be the last layer you build into your online marketing strategy. While I agree with him, I think PPC and SEO can be used together both at the beginning of the [...]

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Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 03/26/2010

Tom Raftery — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:31:20 -0700

Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up: GE Announces Major European Offshore Wind Expansion with a Planned €340 Million Investment for Manufacturing, Engineering and Service Facilities in Four Countries GE today announced plans to invest approximately €340 million to develop or expand its wind turbine manufacturing, engineering and service facilities in four European countries—the United Kingdom, [...]

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Nexus One – Week One

Chris Selland — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:53:20 -0700

Quick thoughts on the $GOOG Nexus One after using it for a week

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Eye Tracking

Jeff Nolan — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:58:59 -0700

I read the linked post below and the notion of eye tracking as a result of augmented reality products will result in a new advertising currency. The idea of eye tracking in advertising is not new, indeed eye tracking as a field of study is not new having first been credited to the work of [...]

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A lesson CA could teach other vendors

Brian Sommer — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:25:44 -0700

CA knows a thing or two about governance - now they've got a book out on the subject. Even more interesting is how this publication serves to differentiate CA from other firms who speak of governance but can't prove the depth of their competencies.

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Charlotte Otter, Editor/Translator/Writer: On Jargon

James Governor — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:52:05 -0700

Thomas Otter is a good friend of mine, but his wife is the talented one. Charlotte is a great writer, and has built a business in idiomatic translation of corporate information – particularly between English and German. In what looks like the first post on her new marketing blog Charlotte takes issue with jargon. Its [...]

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How to Meet Efficiently

Zoli Erdos — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:17:50 -0700

It's a comic cartoon - pls. click to enjoy

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HRM SaaS InFullBloom vs Everything Else: The Musical!

Naomi Bloom — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:00:44 -0700

Since my singing finale to last year’s closing keynote at the HR Technology Conference (if you missed it, you missed it because no YouTube versions have popped up – yet), many colleagues have asked me about my next such performance. And no, the picture (that’s me in the foreground) isn’t from HR Tech but rather from my long [...]

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The Venture Singularity

Niel Robertson — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:57:08 -0700

At a somewhat recent dinner with Brad Feld (@bfeld) and some other great Boulder tech entrepreneurs we got into a discussion about Ray Kurzweil’s book on the Singularity. A heated debate ensued whether his theory about the convergence of technological computing capacity, and our ability to understand (and thus integrate computing into) the brain was [...]

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The Strangest Enterprise Software Ad I’ve Ever Seen

Zoli Erdos — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:44:26 -0700

I’ve seen some strange ads before, but this one by Enterprise SaaS provider SuccesFactors is beyond imagination – not the ad itself, but where it is placed:

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Ada Lovelace Day 2010

Craig Cmehil — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:31:27 -0700

I’ve always thought it’s best to celebrate those you admire whenever the chance arises however on occasion, such as today when the world has a sharp eye on the topic it’s quite often good to celebrate specific people in connection and the same context. Today, March 24, 2010 is Ada Lovelace day, and everyone is [...]

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For Ada Lovelace Day: The other Esther Dyson

Susan Scrupski — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:41:42 -0700

It’s hard to not think of Esther Dyson on a day that recognizes women in Science and Technology. I’m not the first to write about her for Ada Lovelace day, but I hope to reveal a side of Esther that will serve to inspire women everywhere. I first met Esther in 1989, I believe. I was working for CMP [...]

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The New Face of Geek Chic

Susan Scrupski — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:00:40 -0700

I was introduced to Anne Petterøe in 2009 by a fellow Enterprise Irregular (EI) who asked me if I might be able to help her find a place to stay for SXSW here in Austin. I had already been following Anne on Twitter, but definitely didn’t know her at all. But, because she hailed from one of [...]

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Path to Recognition

Craig Cmehil — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:53:31 -0700

The other week Jon Reed from JonERP asked me to join him for his next episode of the ERP Lounge which I was both honored and flattered to do so. The episode which is now online and you can find here he also posted a piece up on the SAP Community Network that you might [...]

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Rethinking IT and business transformation success

Michael Krigsman — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:36:54 -0700

Over the past several years, our understanding of IT failure has evolved and deepened. It's now time to start a new dialog focused on opportunity and success.

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A Well Intentioned Bad Idea That Should Not be Stopped

Jeff Nolan — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:22:47 -0700

Like everyone who has looked at the issue of immigration, I came to the conclusion long ago that it is a broken and outdated system. Just consider that every H1-B visa is snapped up within 12 hours of becoming available and you see how not only demand outstrips supply but an industry has grown up [...]

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Rich Lechner talks about Smart Buildings and a Smarter Urban Infrastructure

Tom Raftery — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:59:36 -0700

I had a great chat about Smart Buildings the other day with IBM’s VP Energy and Environment, Rich Lechner. Why are smart buildings important? Well, as Rich says, in the US buildings are responsible for about 70% of the energy consumption and for about 40% of the greenhouse gases emitted. When you combine that with the fact [...]

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Tuesday’s Tip: Understanding The Many Flavors of Cloud Computing and SaaS

R "Ray" Wang — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:16:01 -0700

Confusion Continues With Cloud Computing And SaaS Definitions Coincidence or just brilliance must be in the air as two esteemed industry colleagues, Phil Wainewright and James Governor, have both decided to clarify definitions on SaaS and Cloud within a few days of each other. In fact, this couldn’t be more timely as [...]

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A LOADED Comment – The Impact of Culture and Technology on Each Other in the Realm of Social Business

Paul Greenberg — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:39:39 -0700

Mitch Lieberman, a VP at SugarCRM is a living proof of concept - vendors can contribute serious thinking to the ongoing discussion around how to create and apply business strategies to customers.... The award winning, edgiest CRM blog on the planet. T...

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When online communities go to work

Dion Hinchcliffe — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:19:55 -0700

While the debate continues on about whether consumer social networking is an effective model for how we should run our organizations in the future, one under-appreciated online phenomenon is quietly and steadily remaking the very notion of business itself. The world of online communities has evolved with social computing to become one of the most powerful new models for getting work done. Read my exploration of "When online communities go to work."

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Defining Cloud is Simple. Get Over It. The Burger.

James Governor — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:44:51 -0700

My efforts at cloud definitional work began with 15 Ways to Tell its Not Cloud Computing. In the intervening time the forces of complexity and, yes, pragmatism have triumphed. We’re now making the long transition from simple and public to complex and private – hopefully some simplicity will make it through the process. Talking of simplicity, [...]

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My Startup Track Record

Bob Warfield — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:43:02 -0700

Success. Success. Failure. Success. Failure. That’s it, that’s my story. It’s been my heartbeat. I’m a Serial Entrepreneur with a 60% track record, which is comforting, except that I’m coming off my latest failure at Helpstream. 60% is way in excess of what most any VC ever gets. It’s way better than anyone I know, in [...]

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2010 and what about the bees?

Craig Cmehil — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:05:47 -0700

Over the weekend out with the camera I came across this little guy working away and I realized it’s been quite awhile since I’ve heard anymore about the issues with “bees” that we are having. Do you remember those issues? CCD is still an issue and has not gone away and frankly if you have a [...]

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Follow The Yellow Brick Road Part III: HRM Strategies, Outcomes And Design

Naomi Bloom — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:00:01 -0700

My apologies for the long detour from the Yellow Brick Road while I attended to heavy business travel, client deliverables, more shoulder rehab, and the final business details for closing on M/V SmartyPants. More on SmartyPants in a later next post, complete with pictures. For now, we’ve got a lot more work to do along [...]

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Twitter is 4 today

David Terrar — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:42:59 -0700

A few months back on the 19th of November 2009 NESTA, as part of their Silicon Valley comes to the UK sequence of events, televised a discussion called "Social Media: A Force for Good?". The panel was our very own national treasure, actor, QI master and twitterphile Stephen Fry, Biz Stone the Founder and Chief Executive of Twitter, and Reid Hoffman the Founder and Chief Executive of LinkedIn (you can see what they said below). The proceedings were moderated by NESTA's own Chief Executive Jo...

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Joel Spolsky and Kathy Sierra are Close, But There is More to Blogging

Bob Warfield — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:48:30 -0700

Joel Spolsky has succeeded brilliantly with blogging as marketing medium, and he says he only learned why a year ago based on something Kathy Sierra said at the Business of Software Conference: To really work, Sierra observed, an entrepreneur’s blog has to be about something bigger than his or her company and his or her product. Tantalizingly [...]

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Can corporate social responsibility affect your company’s bottom line?

Tom Raftery — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:43:52 -0700

Your company’s share price can be negatively affected if you fail to behave responsibly in your business practices. I have written here a couple of times about environmental risks companies could potentially face. This first time I wrote about this it was in reference to FaceBook’s decision to source the power for their new data center [...]

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Organisational Effectiveness vs. Personal Efficiency

Sig Rinde — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:37:10 -0700

Wherever you turn you'll find that Enterprise Software is on a never ending quest to increase your personal efficiency. It says so on the vendor's site, it seeps through in discussion about User Interfaces, one is constantly reminded how good...

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digital hobbies

Craig Cmehil — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:01:12 -0700

Today’s show is taking a look at hobbies and specifically digital hobbies and how these can actually help to reduce stress similar to the art of drawing, sketching or painting despite the fact they exist in a digital form.

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Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 03/19/2010

Tom Raftery — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:31:27 -0700

Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up: Nissan: 500,000 Electric Cars by 2012 – News – Automotive Fleet Nissan is planning for a production capacity of 500,000 Leaf electric cars in North America, Japan and Europe by 2012, the Chicago Tribune reported. tags: nissan leaf, nissan, greennumbers, electric cars, electric vehicles Carbon capture storage will ‘generate 100,000 jobs and [...]

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MIT Entrepreneurship Review

Brad Feld — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:46:02 -0700

A week ago the MIT Entrepreneurship Review launched. Today it’s up on MIT’s home page. The MIT Entrepreneurship Review is a new online publication about entrepreneurship that is produced and written by MIT students dedicated to analyzing trends in entrepreneurship at MIT and beyond. I’ve been involved with some of the folks behind this and I [...]

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Smart Grid Heavy Hitter series – Kevin Meagher, CTO EDSA

Tom Raftery — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:36:12 -0700

EDSA are an interesting company. They are 25 years old, they are privately held and they focus on power analytics. I had an opportunity to have EDSA’s CTO, Kevin Meagher, on the show so I jumped at it to find out more about their smart grid solutions for micro-grid integration. Kevin and I had a great [...]

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Risk Pools and Healthcare Reform

Jeff Nolan — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:14:03 -0700

The fundamental challenge the health insurance, or any insurance business for that matter, faces is how to blend risk pools so that the customers who consume few services pay for those who consume many services.

In other words, my premiums will go down because healthy young people who currently get by without insurance will [...]

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On Open Data, Open Source, UK Libel Law and Evidence-based Sustainability

Tom Raftery — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:39:24 -0700

“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” – John Maynard Keynes As is often the case, someone asks for a written answer to a question, but then fails to use the material. The great thing about blogs is that they make it very easy to make sure such content isn’t [...]

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Five Years of Column 2

Sandy Kemsley — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:37:00 -0700

As of today, I’ve been writing this blog for five years. My first post was on BPTrends’ 2005 BPM Suites Report, and I’m still pretty focused on BPM, although have branched out to cover a wider variety of Enterprise 2.0 and collaboration topics as well. In the beginning, it was just labeled as my business [...]

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The Glue Agenda Is Getting Awesome

Brad Feld — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:14:15 -0700

Image by GraemeThickins via Flickr I love the conferences we help sponsor (Glue and Defrag). Eric Norlin is a genius at putting together a specialty technology conference. He gets amazing people to attend, curates the content meticulously, isn’t afraid to try new things every year (and have some not work), and just keeps at it with [...]

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Shimel Blogs on Open Source

Brad Feld — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:33:17 -0700

My long time friend Alan Shimel has been blogging up a storm on Network World (if you want to hear any amusing story, ask him about the first time he met me.) When Alan started writing his column for Network World he asked me for introductions to a bunch of our portfolio companies that were [...]

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Hacker Disables Cars via the Web – Our Remote Controlled Life

Zoli Erdos — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:06:51 -0700

This is what remote controlled toy cars looked like when I was a kid. Yes, the control box was connected to the car with a 3-4feet cable… not exactly the level of freedom you get with today’s wireless models. But it was fun, nevertheless. I wonder if 20-year-old Omar Ramos-Lopez had a toy car when [...]

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From Summit to Edge – 3 More Chances to Get Personal with Social Business Design

Jevon MacDonald — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:17:55 -0700

We have just wrapped up a very successful Social Business Summit in Austin. The day was packed with great speakers and we are grateful to each and every person who came out to the event. The good news is that there are still 3 more opportunities to get connected with other Social Business Design thinkers. There [...]

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Dissecting a health care IT failure

Michael Krigsman — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:48:13 -0700

A new report by IT failures expert and author, Phil Simon, takes a deep analytical dive into a failure at a major hospital system. It is currently available for free download.

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The Cost Difference Between On-Premise and SaaS

Brian Sommer — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:26:20 -0700

The SaaS vs. On-Premise cost differential turns out to be quite significant. Large enterprises are starting to embrace SaaS applications for more than cost reasons.

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Yippee! At Least We’re Not the Worst!

Jason Wood — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:45:22 -0700

The markets are up. The media is happy. Economists are patting themselves on the back saying the "worst is over." And certainly in many respects it FEELS that way, doesn't it? And happily, as an investor, times are better than...

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A Saint Patrick’s Day special: Further Thoughts on Manuscripts, Marginalia, Mashups and Reading as Writing

James Governor — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:48:15 -0700

I wrote a post the other day about Digital Manuscripts, Reading as Writing, and the danger of of “digital rights management” (DRM). The New York Times today provided a lovely follow up in the shape of an article – Turning Green With Literacy – about the Irish role in saving the book after the Roman [...]

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Is there really any need for baseload power?

Tom Raftery — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:29:07 -0700

Photo credit wonderferret The electricity grid may not need “baseload” generation sources like coal and nuclear to backup the variability of supply from renewables. Jon Wellinghof is the Chairman of the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). FERC is an independent agency that amongst other things, regulates the interstate transmission of electricity, natural gas, and oil [...]

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Spend Visibility and Beyond — Analytics Broader Role in Procurement and Supply Chain

Jason Busch — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:10:00 -0700

Today marks an important milestone in Spend Matters' relatively brief history. We?re launching our second Compass research series. We?ve designed Spend Matters Compass briefs to deliver high quality and insightful research at a level that goes deeper...

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Has SXSW Peaked?

Zoli Erdos — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:55:48 -0700

How do I know, when I’m not even there? By reading what others say. For starters, here’s Jolie O’Dell who attends this year’s conference: Too many people, not enough tech. …non-technical people aren’t here to learn; they’re here for self-congratulation and mutual masturbation. People I’ve never heard of are referring to themselves as Twitter celebrities and generally [...]

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Happiness and a better Enterprise Software Data Model

Sig Rinde — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:20:14 -0700

Funny thing, seems the human brain uses same tricks as Enterprise Software to save disk space :) Thanks to Zia I found Daniel Kahneman at Ted's site (go see): Kahneman's premise being "confusion between experience and memory: basically it’s between...

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Enterprise 2.0: The Next Narrative

Susan Scrupski — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:30:25 -0700

Enterprise 2.0 was launched in the spring of 2006 as a result of Andrew McAfee’s case study interviews in 2005 on Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW), an investment bank in London. The story unfolded after he and his team studied the work of J.P. Rangaswami, who was then Global CIO of the bank. It’s sometimes surprising to me [...]

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Vendors Who Get The Social Thing – Oh, And I’ve Ordered An iPad

Paul Greenberg — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:37:17 -0700

Image credit: Inside Social I ordered an iPad last Friday right after Apple finished updating their site so that I could. Just to set the record straight, I’m not a fanboy though I have 2 iMacs, an iPhone and a Macbook Pro 13″ with a solid state drive. But, then again, I’m writing this post on [...]

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IT failure: ‘Evil is the cure for incompetence’

Michael Krigsman — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:06:04 -0700

Dilbert's thoughtful view on IT failure, politics, and blame.

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