Enterprise 2.0, Boston, June 22-25th
I should have known that something was up when I walked in to my first Enterprise 2.0 session on Tuesday morning to the sounds of Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy”. Was this just someone’s good taste for wake-em-up ambient music first thing in the morning (I concur!), or was someone sending a not-so-subtle message to attendees for a conference on emerging social media? Read more »
Enterprise 2.0 Conference
I will be attending the Enterprise 2.0 conference at the Westin Boston Waterfront for the next day or two, and will be collecting and posting the best insights and take-aways that I can gather from this event.
TechWeb, no novices to putting on events, seem to have really mastered the art of the registration process and the integration of the social media into the registration process. Planning an event? You could do worse than to walk yourself through the Enterprise 2.0 conference registration process to see how to do it right.
While I am at the conference, look for periodic postings from the event on twitter, at http://twitter.com/reastman. And if that does not get you to finally make the plunge into twitter, what will?
Happy Bloomsday.
Another Bloomsday has snuck up on me, as it does every year. This most famous of literary days – celebrating the single day in the life of Leopold Bloom wandering around Dublin depicted in James Joyce’s book, Ulysses – has special meaning for me.
When my wife, Nancy, and I were married and planning our honeymoon in Ireland, we each committed ourselves to reading Ulysses before we married. It was not so much that we felt that Ulysses would provide any special guide to our honeymoon in Ireland. Rather, I think we felt that as much as our getting married was (and has proven to be) a turning point in each of our lives, that committing ourselves to some Irish literature, and one of the more challenging reads that there possibly can be – before we were to meet Irish relatives of mine that we had never met – was an appropriate complement.
So, if you are looking for something really special to do, here is one suggestion. Commit to reading Ulysses, then Richard Ellman’s biography of the same name, James Joyce, and, finally, perhaps, NORA: The Real Life of Molly Bloom, Brenda Maddox’s biography of James Joyce’s wife, Nora.
Or, if you prefer, just lift a Guinness somewhere, sometime today (preferably after 12 Noon wherever you are) to one of the greatest writers who ever lived.
Happy anniversary, too, to Ron and Nina, special friends for as long as I can remember, and who made a special commitment to each other 30 years ago today. I think of them every Bloomsday. Happy Bloomsday to all.
Data Domain, NetApp, EMC, and Deduplication – Where to Go To Know
Are you trying to make sense of all of the recent news on Data Domain, NetApp, EMC, and something called deduplication?
To understand what is going on, you could do worse than to check out these articles, references, blogs, and twitterers: Read more »
LinkedIn Needs To Do Something With Groups
Of all the things that there are to like about LinkedIn (and there are many), LinkedIn’s groups and group discussions are not near the top. I won’t pretend to know what is going on behind the scenes at LinkedIn, but I sincerely hope that someone there is looking at figuring out what LinkedIn users really want, and how to make groups and group discussions more attractive to and inviting to LinkedIn users. Read more »
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