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Some digital immigrants “just don’t get it”, and probably never will

by Gene Phifer  |  September 28, 2008  |  8 Comments

In talking with lots of clients at Gartner’s Web Innovation Summit, held a couple of weeks ago in LA, the difference between digital natives and digital immigrants was reinforced.  As a reminder, digital natives were born in the Internet era and are the folks that are out here blogging, twittering, posting, and socially interacting on [...]

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Experiences from the 2008 Web Innovation Summit

by Gene Phifer  |  September 21, 2008  |  2 Comments

Gartner’s 2008 Web Innovation Summit was held last week.  It was an exciting week, with lots of good buzz from attendees and exhibiting vendors alike.  As usual, the analysts did an outstanding job delivering presentations, running roundtable sessions, and doing client 1-1 meetings. I ran into a few surprises at the Summit. For one, I [...]

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Gartner’s Web Innovation Summit 2008

by Gene Phifer  |  September 15, 2008  |  Comments Off

Finally, Gartner’s Web Innovation Summit 2008 has arrived.  As co-chair, I have been working hard on this conference for over nine months.  We have an exciting agenda focused on the Web, Software as a Service and Cloud Computing. I will be presenting the following sessions during the week:   Analyst Keynote   Don’t Forget to Mind the [...]

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