by Jeffrey Mann | October 6, 2009 | 22 Comments
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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by Jeffrey Mann | September 20, 2009 | 6 Comments
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. [...]
Category: being an analyst Events microblogging Twitter Tags: crowdsourcing, MP expenses, PCC, summits, twitter
by Jeffrey Mann | September 15, 2009 | 4 Comments
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 [...]
Category: blogging compliance Events social software Tags: blogging, financial industry, personas
by Jeffrey Mann | August 31, 2009 | 5 Comments
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 [...]
Category: Events symposium Tags: Cannes, Gartner events, Orlando, symposium
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 [...]
Category: collaboration Events Tags: financial crisis, optimism, PCC
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. [...]
Category: blogging collaboration Events microblogging Twitter Uncategorized Tags: BIIM, Japan
