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 | November 12, 2012 | 3 Comments
A columnist at VentureBeat recently wrote about the supposed Dropbox Effect and whether it is real or not. I think it is, but not the way most people seem to be using the term. I see three aspects the supposed Dropbox effect: What the people saying it think it means What it really means What [...]
Category: Apple Cloud consumerization startup Vendors Tags: accellion, Box, Dropbox, file sync, gdrive, sharefile, skydrive, syncplicity, yousendit
by Jeffrey Mann | March 27, 2011 | 2 Comments
I am not usually all that into gadgets, and I have never understood the manic devotion to all things Apple that some normally rational people display. I don’t have an iPhone (I tried, but that’s a long, not very interesting story) and am very happy with my Blackberry Torch. I get a secret satisfaction out [...]
Category: Apple Personal RIM social media Tags: fanboys, ipad, tablets
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 | December 20, 2010 | 2 Comments
The Wikileaks organization has been in the news a great deal the past couple weeks with its large scale disclosure of internal communications from the US State Department, and promises to release reportedly explosive internal discussions from banks at a later date. I have held off commenting for awhile to see how the issue played [...]
Category: compliance Facebook privacy security social media social software Tags: Facebook, Julian Assange, Mark Zuckerberg, person of the year, TIME, wikileaks
by Jeffrey Mann | November 1, 2010 | 2 Comments
Today’s announcement that the Telegraaf Media Groep has acquired the company behind the Hyves social networking site is another troubling sign for locally-oriented media sites. Hyves has achieved quite good penetration in the Dutch market, with almost 11 million Dutch users, over half the total population. Despite its efforts, it hasn’t succeeded much in growing [...]
Category: consumerization europe Facebook Hyves social media social software Tags: consumer social networks, europe, Facebook, Holland, Hyves, Netherlands, social media, Telegraaf, TMG
by Jeffrey Mann | October 19, 2010 | 7 Comments
In an announcement from San Francisco today, Microsoft provided more details about next year’s planned revamp of its Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) cloud-based collaboration suite. Gartner’s official take on this announcement can be found here, but here are some of my thoughts. The new brand name is the most striking part of this announcement. [...]
Category: Cloud collaboration Google Microsoft social software Tags: BPOS, Cloud, Microsoft, Office 365, SaaS
by Jeffrey Mann | October 17, 2010 | 1 Comment
Last week, I had the chance to do a quick tour around Europe with Ed Thompson talking to over 300 people about social media in London, Utrecht, Zurich, Milan, and Frankfurt. I talked about developing strategy, and Ed covered social CRM. While five cities in five days is a quick pace, it’s not out of [...]
Category: collaboration compliance europe Facebook privacy social media social software Strategic Planning symposium Tags: communities, Frankfurt, London, Milan, privacy, social media, social software, symposium, Utrecht, Zurich
by Jeffrey Mann | September 26, 2010 | 10 Comments
I’ve been thinking about “creepiness” over the last couple weeks. I’ve been finding the concept come up more and more as I speak with end users and vendors about social software, because it is becoming a real barrier to adoption as end users react with sometimes unexpected revulsion at what seems normal or trivial to [...]
Category: compliance email Google privacy social media social software technology Tags: creepiness, creepy, gcreep, Google, privacy, SNA, social network analysis, social networking
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
