Reason #7: Learn something you can actually apply One of my favorite quotes from last year’s Defrag attendees came from Erik Miller of Western Union (emphasis added): “I’ve been to a lot of conferences. Conferences of all kinds, in fact. I’ve been a speaker at many conferences
Read more →Reason #8 to come to Defrag: An intimate setting. There are lots and lots (and lots) of tech conferences. And it’s no secret that most of those are run by big media companies, while some of them are run by “independent conference organizers.” Defrag falls into the
Read more →(This post continues my series of “10 reasons to come to Defrag.”) Kara Swisher has posted an interesting article entitled, “Dear Web 2.0: It’s Still the Economy, Stupid!” In it, Kara rails against the seeming disconnect between the startups that launched last week, their valley backers, and
Read more →I’ve been really digging into the defrag agenda, so much so that what’s currently on the website isn’t totally “current” (that’ll change shortly). As such, I thought I’d walk through and highlight some things, topics and cool stuff that I’m seeing on day 1: Strategic Intuition and
Read more →One of our Defrag speakers, Rich Hoeg, has been featured in a New York Times article. Rich is the Manager of Web Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing at Honeywell, and he’s been doing some truly “out there” stuff around tagging, folksonomies and corporate search. Apparently, though, that’s not
Read more →Not that anyone noticed, but Google launched a “browser” (Chrome) yesterday. It spurred me on to a bunch of thoughts (this post), which is odd only because I haven’t downloaded it yet (I’m on a Mac not running Windows), so I’m a bit like a blind man
Read more →I’m pretty optimistic by nature (isn’t every entrepreneur?). But I’m also a realist - and by realist, I mean that I tend to spend an inordinate amount of time observing “macro-trends.” Lately, things have just been “feeling” better in the stock market. Sure, the bears are talking
Read more →One of the aspects of defrag that I’m trying to dig into much more fully this year is the problem of “massive data sets” and how it is that business can begin to take advantage of the vast pools of data they have (versus simply drowning in
Read more →Stowe Boyd has posted another great piece that tackles the “blogging 2.0″ meme that’s floating around. Like Stowe, I also started blogging in 1999. I was working on the personalization.com site (with Chris Locke and Steve Larsen), and Chris called me at home to tell me that
Read more →(Alternative title of this post: “Is Enterprise 2.0 b*llsh*t?”) There’s been a bit of rumbling lately about enterprises not being satisfied with their “enterprise 2.0″ implementations — specifically, a McKinsey report that only 21% of respondents are satisfied with their implementations, while 22% are clearly dissatisfied (some
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