Posted on January 27th, 2010 in Three Good Things
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Hadoop is one of the coolest emerging software products in my mind. Its cloud, its analytics its cheap and it adds shed loads of value.
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So here is my session 3 of presenting social software to a client. This one focuses on value and to encourage thinking about how to prove success of a software deployment.
Other sessions to come will include architecture design and project plan.
enjoy..by the way if you like it please share it with someone!
Session 3 Value of Social Software
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Posted on January 13th, 2010 in Marketing
I have just got off a conference call with attendees across a couple of continents and it is probably the first call I have done in 15 years where I have been the only bloke, all the other attendees were woman.
IT is a hugely male dominated industry but you don’t think / realise that all your female [...]
I thought this was a really funny advert from Evian – enjoy.
Posted on December 23rd, 2009 in Random
I was asked to pull together a short pitch on what a work day would look like for employees in the next few years as way of a discussion point. I created this short deck which pulls on a few other decks to illustrate some thoughts.
If you want to know who the people are [...]
Posted on December 22nd, 2009 in Random
Once the development team have been given the directive “thou shalt use WebSphere Portal” where does that leave them in terms of managing the builds and releases of the Portal artifacts. I managed to find a really useful presentation that I used to help facilitate a discussion on this topic.
Release Management for WebSphere Portal – [...]
Sometimes you need to have a slide deck which helps start a discussion around social software, what it is and why people use them? Here is a normalized slide deck that I have used to start such a discussion. Let me know if its useful.
Social Software Discussion
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Here is a deck that I have used to present and demonstrate Lotus Connections.
The deck is split into three areas:
1. Potential
2. Practicality
3. Reality
Potential looks at what can be achieved using Social Software tools. This section is delivered as a story of my work day flying to Wellington NZ for a customer presentation
Practicality goes into feature function [...]
I am building a demo vm using SUSE SLES as I have never used this distribution before. As I installed SUSE I captured screen shots in case I needed to reference this information in the future. I have posted the presentation to Slideshare and I have embedded it here for you to review.
Step Guide Install [...]
