Jeffrey Mann

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Watching Waves of New Technology

by Jeffrey Mann  |  July 1, 2009  |  2 Comments

Tonight I finally took time to watch the entire demo of Google Wave from the recent IO conference. I had already read a lot about it, but had not yet found an hour and a half to watch the entire presentation. This is a pretty busy period, so finding that much time to do anything [...]

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Reassuring Ambition and Activity at PCC Conference

by Jeffrey Mann  |  June 15, 2009  |  Submit a Comment

We went into this year’s Portal, Content and Collaboration (PCC) Summit event with a bit of trepidation, or at least I did. With the somber economic news leading to reports of spending cuts and travel bans, I expected light attendance and listless participants with no room to initiate new activities. That is what I remember [...]

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Social Software at the Japanese BI and IM conference

by Jeffrey Mann  |  June 5, 2009  |  2 Comments

I wire this on my way home from 9 days in Hong Kong and Japan. It was a great trip, partly because I love traveling to Asia. It also is a chance to get exposure to some very different markets and trends than I usually deal with when talking with EMEA and North American customers. [...]

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“Really, that wiki doesn’t make you look fat”

by Jeffrey Mann  |  October 15, 2008  |  2 Comments

One of the most common conversations I have with customers at events and in phone calls is on the “Everyone else is so far ahead of us” topic. It seems quite common for IT managers to want to believe that their peers in other organizations are doing wonderful, innovative things, with well-managed and thoughtfully designed [...]

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