Cloud Insanity - Mistakes of the Past
I enjoyed Mike Kavis’s post, Cloud Insanity - Focusing on all the wrong things, again, especially his definition: "Cloud Insanity - To repeat the same behaviors that caused SOA to fail and expect a different result." How true.
APIs in the Arab Web
Technology blogger Mohamed Marwen Meddah wrote an interesting post on his StartUpArabia site: “The Importance of Having An API for Arab Startups”. Mohamed notes that, thus far, relatively few Arab online startups have opened up their platforms...
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When I first started at Adaptive Path, one of the many striking things about how different Adaptive Path is from most other companies was explained to me by then-CEO Janice Fraser. “When we set up Adaptive Path,” she said, “We wanted the company and...
Read more about Kickering Myself...Campaign Influence for Opportunities
In Winter ’09, Salesforce Marketing introduced Campaign Influence for opportunities. Now you can easily see all the campaigns that influenced the key contacts for an opportunity. Here’s how you can get this feature up and...
Read more about Campaign Influence for Opportunities...Employees asked to write self-appraisals?
I used to think that asking employees to create self-appraisals was a great idea. I used to encourage organizations to make self-appraisal a regular component of their performance management processes. But in the last few years, I’ve changed my...
Read more about Employees asked to write self-appraisals?...Google and salesforce.com - Like Peanut Butter and
Today, salesforce.com and Google announced a new toolkit to link Force.com applications to Google Apps. Now, Appirio already has five commercial applications that connect Google Apps and Salesforce.com. That's more than any other vendor, and three...
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Blog quickly when you find something of interest on the web with Blog This in Windows Live Writer - now available for Firefox 3 series. Here’s something extremely useful for Firefox fans who write blogs using Windows Live...
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