I’m a big fan of Linkedin, I use it several times a week and when I announce what I’m working on (which I will do within a few days) it will become even more clear why it’s been so useful to me....

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In the prior post, we showed how big the impact of data centers are to the global carbon emissions. In the same token, there are efficiency savings brought about by the server design and proper manage...

If you’ve come up the ranks in B2B Marketing and/or Sales, you know the quarterly and perhaps even monthly drill.  We look at opportunities via company name, whether they are Global 2,000 or Fortun...

#devops #infosec  Shared resources do benefit organizations, there’s no arguing about that. But when resources forming the basis of identity are trusted and then inadvertently shared, you may find...

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Answer this question FAST:If you remove the logo and tagline from your website, will people still know what your site is all about without scrolling?Or better yet, will people know exactly where they...

The following post was written by a guest blogger, Joe Schembri, who is currently partnering with the University of  San Francisco on their Sales Management curriculum. Although there is no silver bu...

Nokia has today announced that as part of the release of new devices in July and August, the company is to drop the Ovi range of services and rebrand them as Nokia Services, a transition the Finnish g...

This post is based on a transcript of an interview I did with Karl Hourigan, Digital Marketing Strategist for Mediative, immediately following one of the half-day workshops I presented in thr...

Last week, Microsoft had four separate issues that knocked its cloud-based e-mail services offline for up to 9 hours. Those incidents highlight the most important thing to keep in mind when buying any...

Tweet Google has become an integral part of our lives and  the word has even become a verb as we are often heard to say let’s “Google” that. I have even heard the web giant ref...

I constantly see chatter, blogs, articles and tweets out there about “New marketing” and “How PR works – or if it’s even necessary” now that social media is so mainstream, easy and accessi...

Globe and MailWhy definitions of cloud are creating false debatesCNETamong technology and business decision makers about the very nature of cloud computing. I hesitate to go into cloud definitions, bu...

Over the past 6 months Ive been advertising my game on Reddit through their self-serve advertising service. This service is very accessible to small advertisers with a budget of $20+. You pay for...

Here are my (mostly) unedited notes from the panel about Object-based storage. Vanessa Alverez also hosted the  panel. The panelists included representatives from Cleversafe, Amplidata, Caringo, and...

Background Klout’s goal is to be the standard for influence. The advent of social media has created a huge number of measurable relationships. On Facebook, people have an average of 130 friends. On...

Do you want people to read your blog? (Like I really need to ask?) Blog post titles are the hooks that grab your potential readers by the shoulders and pull them into your content. If...

Facebook generates $2bn in revenue, is valued at $50bn and has a global ‘customer’ base of 600m people. It’s fair to say it’s a pretty big company. And to service a company of this size, you n...

When Microsoft announced its acquisition of Skype, it marked another turning point for many early adopters who have known the simplicity and usefulness of the service since its first days of availabi...