Virginia Hefferman put up a really good blog post on the state of blog post commentary in the NYTimes this morning, Comment is King.
With the proliferation of comment functionality on almost every piece of online content, Virginia presents a good overview of the quality or lack there of shown in the musings of those who find time to 'comment' on other's work or opinions.
She discusses the comments posted on Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum's columns in the W... Read Full Story
In the past week, Rob Howard, CEO of Telligent, had to make the gut-wrenching decision to reduce staff overhead. The economy we are experiencing is unprecedented and Telligent was not immune.
I have been at Telligent for 16 months and in that time we experienced incredible growth and excitement due to the vision and commitment of Rob and the team he assembled. Even 6 months ago we felt we could put the brakes on the growth and weather the storm. But that was not to be.
But, it is the hard dec... Read Full Story
Today, Intel announced $7 billion investment in upgrades to its US plants. http://tinyurl.com/ah6bdr
On NPR, CEO Paul Otellini stated that investment in technology results in increases productivity and effeciency and that those who are not prepared for the economic rebound to come stand to lose much more.
He also stated that the computer is a critical part of everyone's life and that means we will go on buying technology even when times are hard.
We are starting to see the same vie... Read Full Story
I had three folks on my team at Astadia, an Eloqua partner that happens to be local, for the Eloqua Smart Start training.
I talked to all three and asked the key question: Do you think Eloqua was a good choice? All three replied with an enthusiastic "Yes!".
So now we will see. My team spent the last couple of days of the week working on making sure our Salesforce.com data was clean and ready for Eloqua and working through the lead scoring component.
This week is our first camp... Read Full Story
We've been reviewing demand gen tools to help us manage our leads and today we made a commitment to Eloqua.
We talked to multiple vendors in the space, did the demos, talked to the customer references and to analysts from both Forrester and Aberdeen. We had a lot of scenario meetings and internal reviews and finally decided to go with Eloqua.
They are the leaders in the space and have a broad range of functionality and tools that fit our specific needs. We have been warned about a ce... Read Full Story
Hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday with family and friends. Mine has been really good and I feel blessed by all those around me.
I got up this morning and decided it was time to change the theme on this blog. Downloaded this great looking theme from Rich Mercer's site. What do you think?
There will be some good stuff happening with Graffiti CMS in 2009. Graffiti has been Telligent's lonely step child for the past few months, but things have already started mov... Read Full Story
Seems like Microsoft has decided that it doesn't have to buy Yahoo to get its search technology, they can just hire the brains behind it. In the last two months they have hired Qi Lu, who was EVP of search engineering technology and Sean Suchter who ran Yahoo's search engine. Do they really think they can take on Google? Hmmmm Seems like there are a lot of other areas where they could spend their money. Read Full Story
No matter what industry you are working in or audience you are talking too, the key to building an online community and nurturing the growth of that community is usually centered on adoption and adaptation of community best practices.
A recent post on Matt Thompson’s blog, Newsless.org gives some good recommendations on how these best practices can be applied to news publications and their online reader communities.
Matt has an excellent pedigree to be speaking to this topic, longtime W... Read Full Story
When did Jakob Nielson go to work for MFST? In the linked article from a March '08 InformationWeek, he is referenced as 'principal user experience manager at Microsoft Dynamics.' Did I just miss that news?I've been working too hard. Read Full Story
