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This is my blog post about the Master class given at #E20summit today.
Due to my flight schedule I was only able to attend part of the pre-summit master class events.
So I was absent from the following sessions:
Principles about Web 2.0 in the Enterprise and Corporate Social Computing
Models and Strategic Pillars for the Conceptionalization of [...]
I’m thrilled to be able to say… I’ll be more than just an attendee in Frankfurt on Nov 10-12 for the E2.0 Summit.
The event is about how corporations have to change to be more productive as well as innovative and competitive for their markets by the use of social software. With the presentation of [...]
Recently I attended an event the Oracle Middleware 11g Forum around the launch & release of their Fusion Middleware 11g suite of products.
Oracle should be commended on the swift work they have done of incorporating the technologies and services they have acquired into their own product set. Within the 11g release there is the unified [...]
There was the opportunity to learn more about IBM’s developing story around ‘cloud’ within IBM the Lotus software brand. The techjam at IBM South Bank, was attended by representatives from the IBM business partner community and some larger SI’s.
As the event coincided with recent announcements around the Lotus Notes 8.5.1 client release (announcement details) and [...]
Gartner hosted the 4th annual Europe based “Gartner : Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit” (pcce4) in London this week. From statistics given the delegates had a good cross industry and European countries (and further afield) representation.
The summit host Toby Bell and his colleague Debra Logan welcomed us by providing a grounding for the event through [...]
Overview:
A major set of vendors were present in Manchester to promote their products and services. The focus was in small & medium business spectrum but there were elements that were relevant to the enterprise scale as well. The vendors represented were also across the spectrum of the IT and computer services industry – memory [...]
On Google:
Google gave a keynote on Cloud Computing, their stand was focussed on promoting their cloud based Enterprise computing suite – Google Apps. What came across in my discussions with their representative was the keenness to compete with Microsoft in the area of cloud based productivity services. They were also eager to emphasise their [...]
On Microsoft:
The Microsoft stand had demonstration available on Exchange 2010, BPOS (S), Dynamics, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and ForeFront their security and perimeter protection product.
Microsoft gave a keynote on Windows 7 (with a short preview of Office 2010), given by James Akrigg – head of technology for [...]
As an almost constant home worker, my work connections are 90%+ virtual. I rely heavily on a variety of collaboration tools to help me overcome the barriers to successful engagement, construction of trusted networks and getting the job done in a geographically dispersed team.
This clip from Phil Montero (via Michael’s news updates) rings true with [...]
As a follow on to my recent post, I’d thought I post my thoughts on what I’ve discovered about keeping these devices (small computers after all) in good working order.
Handy maintenance tips
This post from BBGeeks is a great start point:
8 ways to trim the fat from your Blackberry
Some of the less obvious or well [...]
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