You are probably wondering what the social media and business intelligence connection is all about. Hear what three thought-leaders in the industry have to say about applying business intelligence to...

Do you have a web, internet, backup or other IT cloud service provider of some type? Do you pay for it, or is it a free service? Do you take your service provider for granted? Does y...

I am about to start what will be an exhausting but also very rewarding week at Gartner Fall Symposium in Orlando, FL. This is certainly our signature event, with over 7000 attendees, hundreds of sessi...

I get asked reasonably often to help companies and individuals come up with a cost model for their cloud computing. People get really exercised about the cost of hundreds of compute nodes and terabyt...

There’s a new service online called Quora that looks like it can be a great site to help you establish yourself as an expert in your field. Marketing-wise, it can do a lot to help you manage your re...

Content is King. It's a saying you've heard countless times... long before Social Media empowered individuals to create and distribute their own content. Content is the new marketing. Whether Markete...

RedMonk client Zenoss recently did a couple surveys over its user base asking about open source, virtualization, and cloud computing use. Zenoss’ Mark Hinkle and I go over the results of that surve...

"Public cloud is the promise that raises lots of questions for IT," says Gartner's Dave Cearley. "Private may be the fall-back position. In the middle will be the sweet spot."

Listening is only the beginning. Engagement is the beginning of the end of business as usual. Once we hear, truly hear our customers and the people who influence our decisions, effective engagement i...

Ever since meeting him at SOBCon I’ve been impressed with Scott Stratten’s down to earth, humanistic approach to marketing and his mad karaoke skills (photo below courtesy of Steve Hall). Scott, a...

Online ticket seller Eventbrite recently published a study that claims that sharing in social media can be quantified with a dollar amount. They boldly claim that their report, “Social Commerce:...

Earlier this week, as part of its autumn 2010 launch of updated ‘business agility’ offerings covering BPM, SOA, virtualisation and cloud computing topics, IBM announced the upcoming launch of a ne...

At the new DigitalMarketingOne (a community site for digital marketers), our Founders Council is exploring strategic frameworks for digital marketing. Marketing does so many things though and does...

For the most part, examining your web analytics consists of looking at dry columns of numbers and links with a few bar charts and other graphs thrown in for good measure. It's often hard to understand...

Search marketing software provider WordStream has just released a new suite of Quality Score management tools for AdWords advertisers. These tools, which are now incorporated into the...

Have you considered video blogging? In the age where online reality is replacing actual reality in every facet of our lives, having YOUR face behind YOUR virtual real estate is paramo...

The cable and satellite industry in the U.S. has begun to show some weakness, with the first-ever decline in pay TV subscribers last quarter. But data from the European Union shows that cable subscrib...

Product announcements are done in phases. If done correctly, the media extensively covers each phase. Does this sway your organization’s decision making?

Gartner released its Hype Cycles 2010 report in August, and I've been meaning to post about it ever since. Audrey recently covered it from a cloud computing angle Marshall just covered it from a cons...

Weve been working on a web content inventory and ran through a number of oldie-but-goodie content marketing resources. Hope theyre helpful. The Content Marketing PlaybookOur most popular eBook...42...