by Toby Bell | March 10, 2009 | Comments Off
I cut my finger attempting to change a watch battery prior to flying from Asheville to Beijing a couple of weeks ago. Some may wonder how such a thing is possible. Yet among the jittery inhabitants of Planet Caffeine (PC) – where coffee is synonymous with oxygen – each of us can completely relate to [...]
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Category: Somewhat Less Serious Uncategorized Tags: Espresso, Jar Jar, Lingo, Pixie Stix, Planet Caffeine, Translation, Universal Truth
by Toby Bell | January 23, 2009 | Comments Off
There’s a discreet neon sign in a window that you’ve driven or walked past recently if you live in a town of any size. “Fortunes”, it offers. And few of us dare go inside. Maybe we fear the image itself of the wizened gypsy woman we imagine waits inside. Maybe we fear being seen entering and [...]
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Category: Somewhat Serious Uncategorized Tags: 24, Autonomy, Correlative Analytics, Interwoven, Jack Bauer, Tic Tac, Transylvanian
by Toby Bell | December 7, 2008 | 2 Comments
Think about the implications to reputation of an online world where more and more people and businesses spend a predominant amount of time interacting. A place where opinion, influence, anonymity, persistent data, ad-based search engines, few regulators, and criminal interests coexist and intersect at an unimaginable scale. Is this person safe to date? Will this surgeon heal me? [...]
Category: Somewhat Serious Uncategorized Tags: Enterprise Internet Reputation Management, Schwinn
by Toby Bell | November 2, 2008 | 3 Comments
PC World, Feb 4, 2000: Finally emerging from labs, new power sources like fuel cells and lithium polymer could revolutionize design and use of cell phones, PDAs, and notebooks. IT World, October 20, 2008: Engineers at Panasonic have succeeded in reducing the size of a prototype methanol fuel cell so that it’s no larger than [...]
Category: Somewhat Less Serious Uncategorized Tags: Batteries, Laptop, McDonald's, Methane, Research, TSA
by Toby Bell | September 30, 2008 | 4 Comments
I have often been accused (quite unfairly, I might add) of simply ‘making stuff up’ for my own amusement and perhaps of others. And-an even larger slight-I have also been held in contempt for using Gartner’s blog purely for the purpose of self-indulgence and not even mindful of the fact that these musings should have [...]
Category: Somewhat Less Serious Uncategorized Tags: facts, magic quadrant, public service
by Toby Bell | September 25, 2008 | 4 Comments
Gartner has published Cool Vendor reports across various technology markets for years. We’ve recently delivered presentations about Cool Vendors in the High Performance Workplace and Content Management at a number of PCC (Portals, Content, Collaboration) Summit events. While the content was interesting, the format was decidely less so. In the spirit of better engaging our [...]
Category: Somewhat Serious Uncategorized Tags: Cool Vendors, Gartner, PCC, Presentations, YouTube
by Toby Bell | September 16, 2008 | 2 Comments
“Are you going to eat those peanuts?” It’s surprising how many great stories–mostly untold–begin with that line. Surprising, too, how many begin at 37,000 feet over Denver in airplanes where drinks have just been served and the squirrelly man next to me with the oversized glasses, poor complexion, and cheesy toupee leans over nervously, yet [...]
Category: Somewhat Less Serious Uncategorized Tags: BPM, CEVA, ECM, Not sure if Sega is a client, Not the actual GAO, Reputation Management, Some guy I call Spike, Welcome and hello, Workflow
