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The topic of whether in-stream advertising has heated up.  I just read well written pieces on the topic by Ross Kimbarovsky, Robert Scoble, Paul Carr and the NY Times.  I myself recently covered the topic when I spoke about why GRP Partners invested in Ad.ly. ...
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I’ve posted many times before about traditional PR and how it falls dismally short. This post is an opportunity to celebrate some success stories and tell a few sorry tales. ...
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A guest post from Rhett Glauser, Service-now.com director of communications. Rhett has spent a decade talking and writing about the IT management industry from the perspective of companies like Service-now.com, Symantec, Altiris and Lineo...
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Nice post. And especially your "For legacy software vendors, SaaS is not an easy nut to crack for business, organizational, technology and cultural reasons." This is proving a massive challenge as they tend to become immobilized by a number of fears not the least being cannabilisation of their legacy apps/licenses.
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Some co-workers and I were studying the Alexa and Compete scores of popular social networking sites yesterday and I was shocked to see LinkedIn traffic dwarfed by Facebook, Google and MySpace.  I include Google, because according to Jeremiah Owyang (and I agree), Google is building a stealth ...
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Karen Webster of Market Platform Dynamics asked me to share some quick reactions on the announced acquisition of Revolution Money by AmEx this morning. As a result, my thoughts are cross-posted on PYMNTS.com....
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A couple of weeks ago, I took part in the Enterprise 2.0 Conference San Francisco. As usual, it was a very interesting event, and I was glad to make my contribution to the discussion. Below is the presentation I prepared for the Enterprise 2.0 conference’s Enterprise2Open session. ...
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There is really no one “right” way to pitch a VC. Whatever approach gets the job done is “right”. Having said that, the pitches I would rate as most effective over the years are those that caused me to engage by asking the right questions at the right times. As an ent...
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A meeting with an entrepreneur last Friday reminded me of the most frustrating and overused feedback entrepreneurs receive from VCs: Talk to me when you have “momentum”; or I need to see some “traction” first. With mo...
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As Azure gets closer to its release date of 01 January 2010 – the biggest question is what kind of support can you get for open source systems or programs like PHP. With AWS (Amazon Web Services) you can get Linux and native PHP support, and you can do the same with Rack Space Cloud computing. ...
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When you talk to Enterprise folks or to evangelists from companies currently supporting the enterprise IT, they will be glad to point out to reasons why cloud computing is not a fit in their enterprises...
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Oops, I did not realize blogging is so stressful you’d need a shrink Ok, joke apart, this is a different kind of shrink, the Project Shrink interviewing guest blogger and Project Management 2.0 guru Andrew Filev. CloudAve is exclusively sponsored by
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In the beginning, there were forums, blogs and wikis. And it was good...
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Image via Wikipedia Well, not really *that* Cloud.. but it’s the weekend (for a few hours), so light weight posts are in order. ...
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When it comes to the real principles of marketing I've always been guided by Al Ries and Jack Trout. Their books like Positioning, Marketing Warfare, or The 22 Immutable Laws Of Marketing are essential reading...
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Back in April I reviewed the newly launched service that billFLO provides. In their own words billFLO; billFLO focuses on eliminating invoicing friction for SMBs...