Jeffrey Mann

The time period after an intense conference like Symposium closes down is always a bit strange for analysts. We inhabit an isolated world with the delegates, revolving around presentations, workshops, 1 on 1 meetings, receptions, meals and (usually not enough) sleep. It’s the same for attendees, but there are a slew of people making sure [...]

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We have been experimenting with using Twitter at several of the recent Gartner events. I have the most experience with the PCC conference in London, but have also been watching what has happened at the recent CRM, Enterprise Architecture and BPM conferences.
I started to collect some of the best practices we have found to [...]

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As well as the Enterprise Architecture Summit, I had the opportunity this week to present at this year’s European Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit conference in London.  This is my “home” conference, since these are the topics I normally write on and talk with clients about as pat of the collaboration and social software team. [...]

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I am doing a couple presentations on collaboration and social software at the Enterprise Architecture Summit in London this week, just before the Portal, Content and Collaboration Summit. I just got out of a roundtable on corporate blogging, which raised several interesting issues and a few solutions.
The most striking observation, although not unexpected, was that [...]

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Gartner’s Symposium/ITxpo conferences are a mammoth undertaking. For the second year, I get to serve as the chair for the European conference, to be held in Cannes November 2-5, 2009. I work together with colleagues organizing Symposia in Cape Town, Sydney, Tokyo and especially Dave Cearley, the Orlando chair.
The series of Symposium conferences is [...]

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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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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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