by Toby Bell | March 2, 2011 | 3 Comments
Later in March, I will be in Los Angeles for Gartner’s Portals, Content & Collaboration (& Social Media, & Mobile, & Context) Summit. You should be, too. As conference chair, I do a number of things to help promote the event – but haven’t mentioned it here. Given all the topics I’ve covered in posts, [...]
Category: Cloud Somewhat Serious Strategic Planning Uncategorized Tags: Auto-Tune, Case Management, Clay Shirky, ECM, Gartner, Web Content Management
by Toby Bell | January 13, 2011 | 11 Comments
It might be hard to determine given evidence of other interests in my blog, but my primary research coverage at Gartner is focused on enterprise content management. For those of you not interested in this (and you outnumber those that do by a nearly immeasurable factor) I will keep the technical micro-humdrummery surrounding standards to [...]
Category: Somewhat Serious Uncategorized Tags: CMIS, Content Management, DITA, ECM, NMR, standards, XML
by Toby Bell | September 1, 2010 | 2 Comments
RIVER CITY, IA Grandma (as I now call her) dropped by the house yesterday. She’d lost her life savings and was distraught. I was not unmoved, but was also aware of the fact that such a loss is less significant when said savings amount to “what’s left in the social security deposit this month.” It [...]
Category: IT Governance Somewhat Less Serious Uncategorized Tags: Cameron Diaz, Google, HSN, Krazy Glue, Reputation, Trust, WOOT!, WOT
by Toby Bell | March 14, 2010 | Comments Off
SharePoint overwhelms business intelligence as a top search term on Gartner.com, that is. On Google, the SharePoint yield back in May, 2008 was 19,600,000. Today, the number is 15,100,000 (I wonder if Google’s competitive instincts have infected its algorithm). What caused something to finally overtake BI among Gartner’s clients? A number of factors, not the [...]
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Category: Somewhat Serious Uncategorized Tags: Business Intelligence, ECM, Google, SharePoint
by Toby Bell | February 11, 2010 | 4 Comments
Google, Scoopler, and other search tools now deliver real time results (and partly by this I mean anonymous consumer opinions) from social media utilities like Twitter and Facebook and blend them with those sourced from the Web at large. There’s no indication of the relative merit of these opinions (nor is there any scoring of [...]
Category: Somewhat Serious Uncategorized Tags: Prius, Real Time, Reputation Management, SocialCRM, Toyota, Twitter
by Toby Bell | January 28, 2010 | 1 Comment
The emergence of social spending analysis has enterprise implications – even if you’re not a retailer. Blippy, the first service provider in the space, delivers a live feed of purchase data from registered users’ credit cards. It also provides segmented data for specific retailers, though not in depth. For example, as of the moment I [...]
Category: Somewhat Serious Uncategorized Tags: Amazon, Apple, Blippy, iPad, Kindle, Software Stockholm Syndrome, Twitter
by Toby Bell | January 11, 2010 | 1 Comment
When business leaders think of advances in computing, they might remember the images of the early Cray Supercomputers and what came next: Then… … and Now In short, they remember a futuristic machine seemingly able to manipulate the curvature of space/time evolving into something that now more resembles a space heater. The same happened with [...]
Category: Somewhat Less Serious Uncategorized Tags: Biological Computing, iPod, Jingle Dogs, Leeches, Purell, Reputation, Sherlock Holmes, Trainspotting
by Toby Bell | May 7, 2009 | 4 Comments
No – it’s not the name of a law firm. It’s a business model. The concept behind this is that seatholders represent the lasting value toward enterprise software vendor stability – that gathering and then holding onto as many of those end-users as possible will keep one vendor afloat on a stable sea of maintenance [...]
Category: Somewhat Serious Uncategorized Tags: ECM, Open Text, OTEX, Social Software, VIGN, Vignette
by Toby Bell | April 6, 2009 | 3 Comments
Doctors don’t want to be rated by users of Angie’s List and I don’t blame them. Hear me out, as I’m sure it appears at first blush that I’m much more sympathetic to doctors than I really am. Of course, maybe it’s because I still have lingering pain in the backs of my knees and [...]
Category: Somewhat Serious Uncategorized Tags: 5 Stars, Angie's List, Bones, Doctors, healthcare, PCC, Ratings, Reputation, scoring, Star Trek
by Toby Bell | March 16, 2009 | 2 Comments
I still read newspapers, though I have alternatives. My local source, unfortunately, has recently fallen prey to “pastiche syndrome” – it’s now composed primarily of clippings culled from international services rather than being a reliable purveyor of local items of interest. I used to like the fact that editorial bias was once apparent in every [...]
Category: Somewhat Less Serious Uncategorized Tags: Angie's List, Associated Press, Errol Flynn, Jongleur, Lindsay Lohan, Monk, Reputation Management, Robin Hood, Rod Stewart, Rush Limbaugh, scoring, Toby Gazette-Herald-Bee
