Monthly Archives: March 2010

Google TechTalk Vid Highlights

Posted on March 20, 2010 | Leave a comment

Last month I posted about the panel I moderated on February 24, 2010 down at Google with the IIT Madras Association of North America called the Social Media Revolution in the Workplace. The panel was part of Google’s ongoing TechTalks hosted at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA.

It’s your lucky day – all one hour and forty-two minutes of the panel are now available on YouTube!

We had a good crew of folks assembled for the panel. Some highlights for me:

  • Poor Oliver Marks (the only non-vendor) sat squarely in the middle of all the vendors.
  • Matt Tucker, CTO of Jive Software told Anshu Sharma, VP of Product Development at salesforce.com that adding a layer of social functionality to CRM  does not constitute social enterprise software.
  • Greg a.k.a. ‘Dr. Wave’ was wearing jeans with the Wave emblem on the back pockets.
  • Anshu figured out what hump day meant that very day (it was a Wednesday).

Got some time to kill? Here’s the vid:

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Push Ups, Dinos & Launch Pad: Take II

Posted on March 8, 2010 | Leave a comment

I’m the Cloud Connect Launch Pad Chairperson, and the competition is coming to a head quite soon. I have multiple competing emotions when it comes down to the main event. Working towards a moment in time – only to have that time arrive upon you rather suddenly – has a way of snapping you into focus and scaring the crap out of you.

That being said, I’m really looking forward to presenting this contest on Wednesday. March 17, 2010 on the keynote stage at Cloud Connect down at the Santa Clara Convention Center.

The contest began on Twitter. All developers, large and small, were invited to enter their application. There was no entry fee.  We opened our doors with a simple bar for entry – Tweeting to the Cloud Connect Launch Pad Twitter handle #cc_lp.

With the help of my Jurors, we vetted the submissions and narrowed them down to our favorite 8. We then asked the Cloud Connect community to vote on their favorite tool, and the Final Four earned their right to present on the main stage, as well as earn other cool prizes.

The last Launch Pad contest I chaired was at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco in November 2009. To prepare before getting up to present, I did push ups backstage with my buddy Justin to relieve some of the nervous tension that built up in my body. Hopefully it won’t come down to that this time…

And I’m bring the dino back.

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