by Jeffrey Mann | September 30, 2010 | 3 Comments
My last post got several interesting comments, which got got me thinking about what is creepy, and what to do about it. The uncomfortable feelings that some social software implementations create can be a major inhibitor of adoption, so understanding what My colleague Nick Jones offered a potential algorithm for determining levels of creepiness, but [...]
Category: compliance social media social software Uncategorized Tags: creepiness, creepy, social media, social software
by Jeffrey Mann | July 6, 2010 | 1 Comment
Holland 0 – Uruguay 0I have lived in Europe for over 25 years, so I know that I am supposed to be excited by football (the round ball kind). But sports generally don’t interest me very much. I can however generate some interest in the World Cup, mostly because it would take too much work [...]
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by Jeffrey Mann | March 8, 2010 | Submit a Comment
I can tell that I haven’t taken a long flight or train trip recently, because I haven’t blogged in a while. That’s when I get the most reflective. In the train from Amsterdam to Brussels this morning, I saw a recruitment ad that might be the best indicator that the dark days of recession are [...]
Category: europe Uncategorized Vendors Tags: 1990s, HR, recruitment, werving
by Jeffrey Mann | November 24, 2009 | 2 Comments
Doing events in Sydney mean long flights for analysts who live in Europe, but it is worth it. Not to take anything away from Orlando and Cannes, but the smaller Symposium events in Cape Town and Sydney are my favourites. The smaller scale makes them more intimate, so that it is easier to make contact [...]
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by Jeffrey Mann | October 29, 2009 | 3 Comments
Really, I am — like you wouldn’t believe. Not just because I have been working on it for months as the conference chair. Not just because I have some interesting presentations to deliver. Not just because I get to hear dozens of stories from clients about what they are doing with social software and collaboration. [...]
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by Jeffrey Mann | June 27, 2009 | 4 Comments
I talk with a fair number of vendors every month about their collaboration and social software offerings. Usually, these briefings have a familiar pattern (the easiest to use, the most experienced management team, growing ecosystem of partners, logo slide with lots of customers…), but I’ve noticed something new starting to creep in. Rather than talking [...]
Category: Oracle social software Uncategorized Tags: architecture, beehive, Day Software
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
by Jeffrey Mann | September 20, 2008 | 2 Comments
Big news always seems to come when I am either traveling, when there’s not much time to react. This news came, appropriately, during Gartner’s Portals, Content and Collaboration conference in Los Angeles. Plenty of chances to talk with other analysts and delegates about what it means, but it takes time on a flight to get [...]
Category: Microsoft Uncategorized Vendors Tags: Cisco, Cloud, Google, IM, Jabber, Microsoft, Vendors
