Gene Alvarez

In a discussion with others about whether to Tweet or Blog, and if tweets are of value to the followers, I came to the realization that it is not the value of one individual social tool (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, eblogger, etc). The value is in the collection of tools one uses to communicate with their [...]

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An interesting story on a court ruling that enabled students to rate teachers sparked an equally interest discuss discussion around reviewing people performance.
As the e-commerce person here, I have been talking with clients about product rating for years. It has been my belief that with all product review ratings the reader should apply the [...]

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An interesting phenomenon that I am seeing is that a company can go bankrupt and yet its online store can outlive the physical business. Take for example Linen – N – Things (www.lnt.com) and Circuit City (http://www.circuitcity.com/) both who filed for bankruptcy and closed their stores in 2009 have new owners of their website [...]

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Well after a bout with laptops that were either stepped on by a fellow traveler or died while in front of a client. I’ve finally back online with yet another loaner until my laptop reachs full health. Anyway, I’m at our mobile and wireless show and one of the keys words on attendee lips is [...]

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Well I had written about my adventures of using the CT DMV site to guide me through registering a vehicle so when I went to register the second vehicle I had fewer problems with the DMV and some new ones with a bank.

I had paid off my motorcycle in 2000 however my old NY [...]

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I moved to a new home in a new state this year and as part of that move is the joy of re-registering your vehicles in another state. It is events like these that high light how good or bad an organization’s web site is.
In the State of Connecticut you must have a Vehicle [...]

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Wow, what a week! Symposium was great, lots of client interaction creating all sorts of feedback as two major concerns hung over every ones heads. The economy and the up coming election.
How would these two interrelated topics impact IT in 2009 and beyond? I know I had some great discussions with clients about both topics as we delved into these macro issues ripple affect on IT. 
I [...]

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Today is a tough day on Wall St and eBay’s cut of 1000 people didn’t help. However at the same time eBay purchased Bill Me Later adding to its payment options. Perhaps eBay will be able to package Bill Me Later with Paypal into a bundled payment service for all e-commerce sellers to use. Certainly, this will [...]

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I spent the day at our Web Innovation Summit speaking with attendees and presenting on how communities can and are changing the way we sell. There were some very interesting questions such as does communities work for all industries and business models?  Can communities work for products that are not traditional retailer merchandise? What about regulated industries?
Although all the answers to these [...]

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