For years Jane’s mantra has been “focus on the important, not the urgent.” And my buddy is in good company! I receive Harvard Business Reviews’ “Management Tip of the Day” (most of which are superb — I highly recommend you subscribe to this — just file them until you get a chance in an airport [...]
Here’s an article I wrote for EContent on the FASTForward ’09 conference. And there’s lots more at the FASTForward Blog and the conference Twitter feed.
Although this article was about enterprise infrastructure, the title “Slashed Budgets? Think Strategically, not Tactically” resonated with me. Rebecca and I work with many clients who have organizational and financial challenges. We have found that it definitely makes a difference to think strategically about what you want to have in terms of a service or [...]
During the presentation of innovation awards at FASTForward ’09 there were some interesting comments about what search is. Help me make a longer list by adding comments to this post! Search is shortening the distance between users & offerings all about information management and information enables business a high end productivity tool
So many wonderful interviews from FASTForward ’09 participants by Josh-Michele Ross in the form of videos. Check out his coverage of analysts, researchers, CTOs & CEOs, authors, speakers and more. And also the twitter feed from the conference.
Don Tapscott, keynote at FastForward09, built on an his earlier books, Growing Up Digital, Wikinomics, and others as he talked about how a new generation is driving an age of engagement which aligns with the conference theme: Engage Your User. He talked about his new book, Grown Up Digital, about how disagrees that the net [...]
The first FastForward conference since Microsoft purchased FAST Technology for 1.2 billion opened with lots of light an music and about 1,000 attendees from 29 countries. It reflects a strong commitment, vision, and roadmap for search. Today, Microsoft released information about new search products: FAST Search for SharePoint which is the old FAST ESP tuned [...]
The call for speakers for Internet Librarian 2009 is online with a theme, Net Initiatives for Tough Times: Digital Publishing, Preservation & Practices. AND, the opening keynote for the conference is Internet pioneer, Vint Cerf who is currently VP & Chief Internet Evangelist at Google. Most excitiing!