A few weeks ago I wrote about The diminishing role of IT and the CIO.  That post struck a nerve with quite a few readers so I wanted to expand on the topic.   I thought about a case study of some fo...

Change is scary. Big, organization-altering, career-shifting change is downright terrifying. While it can be fun to blog about disruptive innovation and creative destruction — commenting as an obs...

You have always (well for as long as I can remember) been able to select the number of search results shown by Google. The default is 10 Then they add in various other things like news, video, images,...

Marketers often struggle with the “elusive consumer” — a term used to describe the increasing difficulty of targeting potential customers and capturing their diffusing attention. Now it’s time...

Click image for larger version. There are many concepts in VMware vCloud Director that will be new to even some of the most seasoned VMware administrators. As time permits over the coming weeks, I...

News 8 AustinIBM Takes the Cloud to the US OpeneWeekTo help drive home its point that IBM is serious about cloud computing, Big Blue hosted an event at the US Open to show its cloud prowess in action....

by Mike Fleming If you manage a PPC account, you know that for several years now AdWords has had three match types: exact, phrase, and broad.  You also know what they mean and how your keyword...

iTunes Ping is apparently full of spam, yet another hiccup in Apple’s road to establishing a legitimate social network.As Sophos notes on its blog, a barrage of spam links are hitting the music-them...

It's been nearly a month since Demand filed its S1, and I promised you all a longer look after my initial posting. Here are some thoughts now that I've had a chance to digest the document. A caveat: I...

Quick Takes is our summary of news and readings in management, sustainability and intelligent enterprise. New Brynjolfsson piece: “Cloud computing and electricity: beyond the utility model” In the...

This week, we tuned in to learn about Apple's newest releases, including an upgrade to Apple TV. It joins the ranks of Google TV, as well as Web content clients from Amazon, Netflix, and YouTube inclu...

One thing is consistent throughout each and every casino in Las Vegas: over the top ridiculously ugly carpet. Chris Maluszynski has managed to put together an entire photo gallery devoted to this carp...

E-mail has invaded every aspect of our lives. We don’t need a survey to tell us as much, but new research from Xobni and Harris Interactive confirms that we’re not alone in dealing with e-mail ove...

Facebook has confirmed that it is testing a new feature that will allow any user to subscribe to notifications of another user's activities through the same interface that new comments and accepted fr...

If weve said it once, weve said it tons of times here on the Savvy B2B Marketing blog – to connect with today's B2B buyers, you need to produce and make easily accessible a range of content that gui...

Have you ever taken a close look at the experience your customers have with you? The big concept of Two Hat Marketing is for all of us responsible for marketing our businesses (and that would be every...

This is a follow up to my recent post: “The Real Reasons Why Buyers Resist Object”

When it comes to getting your visitors to take action, whether that be a sale, download, request, or call, it’s your content that is going to either make it happen or leave people blowing in the win...

Of all topics, this is one of the perennials. People want more traffic, more attention, more awareness to their blog. It’s fair. We work hard on our blogs. We want more attention and traffic. If y...

Twitter has just released a new official version of its app for the iPad (iTunes link), and it looks like a strong competitor for Tweetdeck.  I've been trying out the new app which, according to the...