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1 week ago from Cloud Computing

 
Cynthia Welch I'm currently an associate product manager for a telecom company. I'm looking to move forward in my career. I have an int'l business/finance background but would like to continue in the technical marketing field. What applications and software programs should I master in order to move to the next level? Several jobs state MBA prefered however the executive MBA programs dont stress any technical programs. Should I bypass and learn some new skill and if so which ones?

48 weeks ago from Cloud Computing

Adriana Dwan: Hi Cynthia, I'm recruiting for an email marketing usability study that pays $50 for 1 hr remote web conference session on Wednesday 8/17 or Friday ...MoreHi Cynthia, I'm recruiting for an email marketing usability study that pays $50 for 1 hr remote web conference session on Wednesday 8/17 or Friday 8/19. You must be employed, based in the U.S., responsible for the management of email programs, and manage a subscription base of over 10,000 email addresses on one or more lists to participate.

I posted this in a couple groups but I think that you could be a great fit for the study given your marketing position and background. If this is something you're interested in please fill out the survey below.

http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/605950/3ed8c3e65ebf Thanks! Adriana
26 weeks ago
Adriana Dwan: If it's something you're not interested in, feel free to pass it on to others :)
26 weeks ago
 
Dave Salamack Getting Private Cloud Right Takes Unconventional Thinking by Forrester -> http://bit.ly/jieruX

29 weeks ago from Cloud Computing

 
Cynthia Welch Does anyone have any examples of successful companies and how they use social media? I need to provide an overview with proven success strategies in social media and why.

35 weeks ago from Cloud Computing

 
Harriet May The company I work for, Loom Learning, is about to start looking for a new help desk agent. We're a startup elearning company, so everything is new and exciting. No experience necessary, although some tech knowledge would be beneficial. Great hours, great people. Must be a good communicator and in the Charlotte area. Let me know if you or someone you know is interested! www.loomlearning.com

65 weeks ago from North Carolina Bloggers, Web Startups, Young Professional Women (YPW), Work/Life Blur and Cloud Computing3 more

 
Dave Salamack Google's Misrepresentations to Government About Cloud Computing Service Warrant House Oversight Committee Investigation, Consumer Watchdog Tells Congressman Issa -> http://sns.mx/kccEy9

42 weeks ago from Cloud Computing

 
Cynthia Welch thanks to everyone that posted comments about how they use Skype. Your comments were very much appreciated. It's great to have a forum where we can communicate about such topics.

52 weeks ago from Cloud Computing and Engineers

 
Dave Salamack 4 Things You Must Know to Succeed with Virtual Desktops -> http://bit.ly/eK40OR

61 weeks ago from Cloud Computing, SMEs and Clouds and Tech Gurus1 more

 
Dave Salamack Panel discussion on Virtual Desktop infrastructure featuring PanoLogic, VMWare, Oracle, & Citrix @cataconnect in Albany, NY on 17 Nov register here -> http://bit.ly/bE5m1T

66 weeks ago from Capital District of New York, Cloud Computing and SMEs and Clouds1 more

 
Dave Salamack Great thoughts to follow-up on Wednesday's @CATACONNECT meeting from @mvizard -> http://bit.ly/b1iofG

68 weeks ago from Capital District of New York, Cloud Computing, Tech Gurus and SMEs and Clouds2 more

 
Dave Salamack Cloud Apps Are MORE Secure, Not Less -> http://bit.ly/beKFWc for these reasons I agree, do you?

72 weeks ago from Cloud Computing, SMEs and Clouds and Tech Gurus1 more

Sirus Saeedipour: I see the point the article is trying to get across, though I completely disagree. No matter what, your data will be more secure sitting at your ...MoreI see the point the article is trying to get across, though I completely disagree. No matter what, your data will be more secure sitting at your place of residence - backed up, encrypted, and physically locked up in your basement on a server.....rather than online allowing, potentially anyone to access your files (as seen with the Twitter incident).
69 weeks ago
Dave Salamack: Your data is only safer locked up in your basement until the basement floods. As long as you are responsible for the back-up, encryption, ...MoreYour data is only safer locked up in your basement until the basement floods. As long as you are responsible for the back-up, encryption, business continuance and disaster recovery plans (don't forget updating, administering, testing these plans and all the infrastructure involved in delivery of these services) than I have to agree with you that IN is safer than OUT. However, few organizations (even huge non-IT companies) have the resources to perform all I have explained above (and that's pointed out in the article). If they have the resources, they are hard pressed to perform better at a lower cost.

If you run a no-risk accepted business (like the military) then keeping your data inside is for you. However, every business runs with some level of acceptable risk and the cloud is just that, an acceptable minimal risk compared to keeping it all inside.
69 weeks ago
 
TOP IDEA: Jay Goldman Can software change culture? An excerpt from our latest post: We believe that a new wave of enterprise and business software is being built today that will be pulled into companies and will change their cultures. Unlike the first wave of business software that was imposed on people, this next wave will be adopted and spread because it is built around people and what they really do, and not around processes we impose on them. Read more at: http://rypp.ly/cVwVlK

70 weeks ago from Rypple, Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing1 more

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Jay Goldman: Jonathan: you're totally right about stuff that can't be changed. We wouldn't get very far if we decided that the next version of Rypple should ...MoreJonathan: you're totally right about stuff that can't be changed. We wouldn't get very far if we decided that the next version of Rypple should allow you to defy gravity or travel faster than light :) Some of the 'immovable' processes in big corporations end up feeling a lot like the laws of physics. Do you guys do a lot of user testing to make sure you understand the needs of your users?
69 weeks ago
Jonathan van de Veen: @Jay: Let me explain my situation. I'm working on a complete rebuild of a product that has been around for ten years. This is software that deals ...More@Jay: Let me explain my situation. I'm working on a complete rebuild of a product that has been around for ten years. This is software that deals with HR and Payroll. The user interface has been evolving for this period of time as well. Now that we are doing a rebuild our functional specialists take in feedback from some of our large customers and from our consultants who relay customer feedback to them on a regular basis.

We have yet to reach the stage where we can do a good user test on the first parts but we hope to do the first one by the end of the year. However, we feel that as the UI is still a lot like what our professional users are used to, that there shouldn't be big feedback.

Another detail that is important to note in our situation is that we have a fairly large usergroup inside our company to provide us with honest feedback quickly.

Then there is the usergroup that only works with our software as a user. In effect that means every employee at our company uses that part of the software and as everyone working on it is also a user this provides for some interesting insights.
69 weeks ago
 
Dave Salamack Apprenda gets more acclaim. RT @SaaSGrid : Selected by Microsoft for Two Elite Programs Azure Tap and BizSpark One http://tinyurl.com/26xwqyr

72 weeks ago from Cloud Computing, SMEs and Clouds and Tech Gurus1 more

 
Dave Salamack Clouderati vs. Itilista: Can't we all just get along? -> http://facetiouscio.blogspot.com/

72 weeks ago from Cloud Computing, SMEs and Clouds and Amazon EC2 Geeks1 more

 
Dave Salamack #SaaS @LincolnMurphy knows Service and evolution keep commoditization at bay -> http://bit.ly/b0raFw

80 weeks ago from SMEs and Clouds and Cloud Computing

 
Dave Salamack Twitter is not a micro-blogging website;Twitter is a micro-blogging PaaS. -> http://bit.ly/db9VhY

81 weeks ago from Cloud Computing, Tech Gurus and SMEs and Clouds1 more

 
Dave Salamack On-Premise to SaaS -> http://bit.ly/cAdab1 This is what I spend most my day doing

81 weeks ago from Cloud Computing and SMEs and Clouds

 
Melissa Should salesforce.com customers self-implement or use consultants?

84 weeks ago from Acumen Solutions and Cloud Computing

Matthew Gratt: I suppose 'It depends' isn't a horribly helpful answer so I'll go into detail:
The big questions are:
- How many users do you have?
If you have ...MoreI suppose 'It depends' isn't a horribly helpful answer so I'll go into detail:
The big questions are:
- How many users do you have?
If you have like, 5 users, go for it. If you're a F1000 company, you may need some more help, especially with international modules and things of that nature.
- Are you hoping to do complex customization?
Simple customization on sfdc like custom fields and reports is really easy, and any sufficiently process-oriented person should be able to do them. More complex customization or plug-in development should probably be done by experts.
- How mission critical is salesforce.com going to be to your business?
If you're going to use it solely to do forecasting, you can probably self-implement, but if you're hoping to truly to CRM and look across different data silos for insight about customers, you may need an implementor to get those systems talking to each other.
84 weeks ago
 
TOP IDEA: Dave Salamack Ultimately,Telcos will reign over the cloud, this is a start -> http://ow.ly/1YQXQ

86 weeks ago from SMEs and Clouds and Cloud Computing

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Matthew Gratt: Telcos need to be thought of as utility companies who have somehow wandered into the business of technology companies. They make big capital ...MoreTelcos need to be thought of as utility companies who have somehow wandered into the business of technology companies. They make big capital expenditures. That's what they're good at - putting up networks and selling (and servicing) customers with phones. They have more in common with your electric company than they do with Microsoft or Cisco. And I think on the list of companies CIOs trust with their technology (and therein data), carriers are much lower than enterprise software vendors. Trust is such a huge issue in (public) cloud plays that brand begins to enter the decision.
While it is logical that carriers would be more involved application delivery, historically they've been left out of the value chain. Since the cloud is not new (it was called SaaS, and before that it was called an ASP, and before that it was called a service bureau), you'd think telcos would've gotten in on the action by now, no?
85 weeks ago
Dave Salamack: I like Matthew's point about trust and how the telcos already have it. One of the factors preventing the adoption of Cloud Computing is putting a ...MoreI like Matthew's point about trust and how the telcos already have it. One of the factors preventing the adoption of Cloud Computing is putting a company's intellectual property beyond its own four walls. These same companies already trust their telcos to securely handle their data and voice communications. Applications are simply an extension of an existing successful relationship.

I also like Matthew's point about Cloud Computing being nothing new and yet, little involvement by the telcos. I repeat, if telcos don't step up and become major players in this game, they may become the delivery division of a software enterprise.
85 weeks ago
 
Dave Salamack Bad SaaS is just as bad as bad on premises software -> http://onlysoftwareblog.com/?p=12937

86 weeks ago from Cloud Computing and SMEs and Clouds

 
Dave Salamack So You Wanna Be a SaaS Provider? by @sschuller -> http://bit.ly/dwyvT7

89 weeks ago from Cloud Computing and SMEs and Clouds

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Dave Salamack: I think your "100 clients" demarcation point is just about right. If you believe your SaaS is so niche that the complete customer base is going ...MoreI think your "100 clients" demarcation point is just about right. If you believe your SaaS is so niche that the complete customer base is going to top out at 100 clients (at least for the first three years), than database segregation makes sense. For that matter, many manual processes probably make sense. For SaaS above 100 clients, manual processes just don't scale and erode your profits.

So, the architecture decision should be based on expected market. It's not a one size fits all.
86 weeks ago
Jonathan Bishop: Absolutely, and of course it relates to what you charge each client for what you provide, and how the app's market presents to teh SaaS provider. ...MoreAbsolutely, and of course it relates to what you charge each client for what you provide, and how the app's market presents to teh SaaS provider. For example two of our clients effectively agregate 400 distinct organisations, I see that as 2 clients because my arrangements are with the two agregators and our SaaS apps handle them as self contained entities - but within each of those apps, they can add and remove their clients 400 clients without manual intervention.

If we saw our clients as the 800 little companies connecting up I would obviously have a different view. So it isn't just niching as a question of both software and market structuring. Hmmm, I guess I just kind of argued the articles case. We architected those apps to allow for painless client addition, to such an extent that we are completely unaware of the event - but more than that, we effectively outsourced the client recruitment function as well.
86 weeks ago
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