by Jeffrey Mann | January 1, 2013 | Submit a Comment
For the last several years, I have written a series of blog posts on my anti-resolutions for the year. It’s easy to publish predictions and yearly previews in a blog around this time of year. So I won’t. If lots of people do something, that usually is a pretty good reason for me not do [...]
Category: anti-resolutions Apple being an analyst blogging Cloud Google Microsoft Tags: anti-resolutions, Cloud, new year, Office365
by Jeffrey Mann | January 1, 2012 | Submit a Comment
For the last several years, I have done blog posts on what I call my anti-resolutions for the year. Many bloggers publish their predictions and highlights around this time of year. So I won’t. If lots of people do something, that usually is a good enough reason for me not do it. My resolutions are [...]
Category: anti-resolutions being an analyst social media social software Tags: anti-resolutions, new year, SV bubble
by Jeffrey Mann | November 4, 2011 | 2 Comments
Gartner’s big European event starts next week in Barcelona, a welcome change from Cannes, in my own opinion. Social is inevitably a hot topic, and I look forward to speaking with many customers over the four days of the conference. I will be doing two workshops (defining a social media strategy, and creating a SharePoint [...]
Category: being an analyst collaboration europe Events social media social software symposium Tags: #gartnersym, Barcelona, social, social media, social software, symposium
by Jeffrey Mann | April 2, 2011 | 2 Comments
I had a little fun in yesterday’s April 1 post assigning new names to the Magic Quadrants, and renaming the whole thing to Real Quadrants. I hope I left enough clues that it was a joke, but it actually illustrates a frustrating issue. I am starting the process to update the Externally-Facing Social Software Magic [...]
Category: being an analyst humor Magic Quadrant Tags: MQ, Real Quadrants
by Jeffrey Mann | April 1, 2011 | 11 Comments
We are constantly looking at our branded deliverables to see how they can be improved or connect more closely with how our customers use them. Customer feedback has told us that the names of the 4 sections in our Magic Quadrants don’t correspond with how many customers choose to interpret them. Despite our efforts to [...]
Category: being an analyst humor Magic Quadrant Tags: April Fools, Challengers, Leaders, MQ, Niche, Real Quadrants, satire, Visionaries
by Jeffrey Mann | January 26, 2011 | 7 Comments
I wish to apologize for all of the demos I have somehow disrupted, those in the past and I am sure, in the future. I see a lot of vendor briefings as an analyst. A disturbing number of them go wrong. I cannot count how many times I heard the phrase “Haven’t seen that before…” [...]
Category: being an analyst conferencing humor technology Vendors Tags: BSOD, crash, demos
by Jeffrey Mann | November 19, 2010 | 1 Comment
Symposium is usually an intense experience, and this year was no different. This year 3300 attended the event, a 21% increase over last year. It was the biggest EMEA Symposium in the last ten years. Close to 100 analysts did 200 presentations, almost 2200 1on1 meetings, and about 40 user roundtables. Personally, I did 26 [...]
Category: being an analyst collaboration consumerization europe Events social media social software Strategic Planning symposium Tags: conservative organizations, EMEA, social software, symposium. #gartnersym, Type C
by Jeffrey Mann | August 27, 2010 | 2 Comments
Last week I did a Gartner webinar on trends in social software. These are fun to do, because I get to talk to lots of people at once rather than the one on one inquiries I usually do. They also generate a fair amount of discussion and comment on blogs, Twitter and in the media, [...]
Category: being an analyst Microsoft PCC symposium Tags: eweek, sharepoint, social software
by Jeffrey Mann | July 12, 2010 | 3 Comments
I arrived in Oxford, UK today for the TED Global conference have been looking forward to this specifically for almost a year, and generally since I first heard about from friends who went to one one of the first TED (technology, education, design) conferences organized by Richard Saul Wurman. The conference’s influence has grown enormously [...]
Category: being an analyst europe Events social software TED Global Tags: conferences, optimism, TED, TED Global
by Jeffrey Mann | June 20, 2010 | 5 Comments
I haven’t been blogging or tweeting much in the last couple weeks. I’ve had my head down while getting the magic quadrant for externally-facing social software ready for review and finishing the bulk of work on the Cannes Symposium agenda. Neither of these are completely finished yet, but both are close enough for people to [...]
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