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Hadoop the 'T' in ETL

ETL is a common computing paradigm used in a variety of data movement and data management scenarios. As demand for more insight into business data as grown,...

0 replies - 317 views - 05/16/13 by Sam Taha in Articles

Definitions of Done in Practice

A couple of weeks ago we looked at how to do a quick "health check" of an agile team. We saw that a great deal can be learned just by attending one...

0 replies - 1373 views - 05/15/13 by Ian Mitchell in Articles

Excel Evolves in the World of Big Data

I don’t know about you, but my go-to piece of software for just about everything is Excel. I have used Excel for over ten years for numerous projects...

0 replies - 901 views - 03/19/13 by Bootstrap Mark... in Articles

Move From Branded Content To A Content Brand

 Our most recent Future of Marketing interview explained Nick Kellet’s suggestion that we focus more on our Customer’s Brand than on our...

0 replies - 762 views - 03/18/13 by Michael Brenner in Articles

Top 50 B2B Marketing Influencers On Twitter

 Who are the top B2B Marketing influencers on twitter? To answer this question, I looked at a variety of factors including twitter followers, profiles...

0 replies - 873 views - 02/28/13 by Michael Brenner in Articles

Why I Won't Take Your Call

It seems not a day goes by without people asking me if they can call me over Skype or phone. I always politely decline. Sorry, I don't do calls. I prefer...

0 replies - 625 views - 01/25/13 by Jurgen Appelo in Articles

Content Marketing: Using SEO Effectively

Despite the latest rumblings about Google Local, SEO can be very effective, if  you understand your target market very clearly.  But before you spend...

0 replies - 734 views - 01/22/13 by Kay Hebbourn in Articles

Social Business for All Generations?

I come from a generation where social is built into our framework. We Tweet and we give constant status updates on Facebook. We knew how to use LinkedIn the...

0 replies - 1886 views - 12/27/12 by Kelly Reiser in Articles

A Simple Framework for Enterprise Collaboration

“The introduction of smarter ways of working together across the extended enterprise enabled by a new breed of innovative concepts and...

0 replies - 1172 views - 12/19/12 by Oscar Berg in Articles

BI is Not an IT Activity

The gulf between the information needs of real human people and IT is almost universally experienced. It's helpful to recognize the drivers for this situation...

0 replies - 686 views - 12/15/12 by Chris Gerrard in Articles

The Privacy Paradox

Back in August Charlene Li and her Altimeter group released a report looking at risk management on social media.  A central concern of those surveyed...

1 replies - 2954 views - 12/14/12 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Thoughts from VMworld 2012 (San Francisco)

A few weeks ago, I wrote my pre-show thoughts about VMworld 2012. Much of it was focused on the need for VMware to diversify their technology and business...

0 replies - 4100 views - 09/05/12 by Brian Gracely in Articles

The Growing Role of Developers in Tomorrow's Cloudy World

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator...

0 replies - 4068 views - 07/19/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles

7 Programmer Recruiting Mistakes

We’ve all met them. The programmers that can’t program. They can hardly write anything that compiles on their own. Producing quality quality code is...

4 replies - 24551 views - 06/25/12 by Anders Abel in Articles

Some Thoughts on SharePoint

I was listening to .NET Rocks episode #713 and it got me thinking about a number of SharePoint related topics. I have been working with SharePoint since the...

0 replies - 2319 views - 05/08/12 by Tim Murphy in Articles