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Subscribe to Backblog  Does social media generate leads? August 31, 2009 By Ben Bradley Categories: General Social Networking These are my experiences. The answer to the headline question is “yes and no.” Let me explain by talking about a few different ways we’ve converted social media activity in new business. Later, when I have more time, I’ll talk briefly about a few things that didn’t work. TWITTER FOR LEADS?... Effective Negotiations for Software Licensing Agreements August 28, 2009 By consider the source Categories: General Outsourcing When a buyer is in a position to apply some leverage in negotiations with software vendors, there are three critical provisions that can be used, but may require a significant push: 1. Maintenance fees as a percentage of the discounted license fee, not the list license fee. 2. Language that locks... Zoompass is destined to succeed: So what is the potential fallout in the Canadian market? August 27, 2009 By Ron Shuttleworth Categories: General Investment This is a follow-up commentary to a previous post "Enstream: A Mobile Moneris or Dexit Revisited?" published on June 15, 2009. The article was an attempt to contextualize the beta launch of Zoompass within the current Canadian and international mobile billing and payments ecosystem. The fundamental... Social Media ... Fad or Fixture ? August 26, 2009 By Jon Husband Categories: General Social Networking Web 2.0 The Social Media Revolution . As another datapoint on this issue, here’s a take from the blog ReadWriteWeb on the staying power, with aa particular focus on the emergence and staying power of what is coming to be called the “Real-Time Web”. . The Real-Time Web Is Not Hype: We Are All Traders Now Hype... Cloud Computing Challenges August 25, 2009 By Vaclav Vincalek Categories: General Just a few blog posts ago, I was discussing how companies looking to adopt cloud computing might look to virtualization for lessons on how to get what they want from the cloud. I mentioned that in the not-too-far-off future, we could see the development of "edge servers" which would enable companies... Tips for Managing Risk in Your Outsourcing Services Engagement August 24, 2009 By consider the source Categories: General Outsourcing Buyers of sourcing services must seriously consider risk when they contemplate outsourcing — and the results are often included in the outsourcing contract. Outside of disaster recovery and business continuity, though, most clients never follow up with an action plan after the engagement begins, nor... One day of all you can eat intel from ZoomInfo August 21, 2009 By Ben Bradley Categories: General Just got word from ZoomInfo that Aug 26 is B-to-B Intelligence Day. While I would prefer gifts of chocolate, ZoomInfo is giving anyone and everyone unlimited access to their database of 45M people at 5M companies for one day only. Individuals and businesses interested in participating in this... Accounting Considerations in Sourcing Environments: Compliance and Controls August 20, 2009 By consider the source Categories: General Outsourcing One of the most critical points in an outsourcing environment is often one of the least addressed. U.S. public companies receiving outsourced services have statutory requirements to substantiate that proper controls are in place to assure the integrity of data, systems, etc. Additionally, there are... Why Execs Throw Each Other Under The Bus - and how to avoid fatalities August 18, 2009 By John Cousineau Categories: General When things go wrong in companies, it's really hard to achieve alignment between various business functions without the sobering effects of a common understanding of what's going on. Fingers get pointed (rarely inwardly) and execs take turns throwing each other under the proverbial bus. An obvious... Crowdsourcing and Customer, Employee and Stakeholder Engagement August 17, 2009 By Jon Husband Categories: General Web 2.0 About three months ago Beth Kanter wrote about the Crowdsourcing of Vision at the Smithsonian Museum. In a comment I suggested that crowdsourcing for visioning purposes was reminiscent of the use of OD (organizational development) principles and methods often found in large-scale organizational or... VoIP and Security for You and Me August 16, 2009 By Vaclav Vincalek Categories: General Security VoIP VoIP (Voice over IP) is an increasingly popular mode of communications, gaining ground since about 2004, when it started using broadband Internet access. VoIP is vulnerable to many of the same scams and fraudulent behavior as traditional voice communications and can be a weak point in your overall... Gartner calls for emergent enterprise information architectures August 14, 2009 By John Cousineau Categories: General A new report from Gartner advocates a new enterprise architecture - an emergent architecture that manages connections between different parts of the business, thereby enabling more adept responses to the growing variety and complexity of markets, economies, networks, and companies. Specifically,... Accounting Considerations in Sourcing Environments: Agreement Language August 13, 2009 By consider the source Categories: General Outsourcing * TPI is not an accounting firm and does not give accounting advice or guidance. Clients and service providers need to engage their own accounting groups for formal opinions; however, TPI is familiar with the RFP formation and industry practices that should be incorporated into the client decision... The possibility of using FM subcarrier managing energy demand August 12, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General Utilities and government agencies are looking for innovative solutions to manage electricity demand during peak periods. Their goal is to reduce consumption during the peak periods reducing the likelihood of brownouts or other power disruptions. There have been techniques discussed for a while to... Case for Security Webinar: Top 25 Dangerous Programming Errors, Part 2 August 11, 2009 By Vaclav Vincalek Categories: General Security Continuing our series on web application security, in this webinar we will continue our discussion of the top 25 web application programming errors that lead to security issues. The discussion will cover definitions of the programming errors, how to identify and assess risks in your application, and... CX Q2 results: Did it beat consensus? August 10, 2009 By Ron Shuttleworth Categories: General Investment Well, kinda mostly. Cyberplex reported $26.0 in revenue for the quarter, a 172% improvement over Q2, 2009, and a 18.8% sequential decline from the $32 million reported for Q1, 2009. Due to historical seasonality in performance, the consensus forecast implied a 29.3% sequential decline, or $22.6... Accounting Considerations in Sourcing Environments: Start-up and Transition, and Asset Ownership August 7, 2009 By consider the source Categories: General Outsourcing * TPI is not an accounting firm and does not give accounting advice or guidance. Clients and service providers need to engage their own accounting groups for formal opinions; however, TPI is familiar with the RFP formation and industry practices that should be incorporated into the client decision... Facebook Gets Poked for Privacy Violations August 6, 2009 By Vaclav Vincalek Categories: General Security If your privacy gets compromised, your company's privacy can be compromised and vice versa. Facebook has 30 days to comply with Canadian recommendations to improve privacy protection. Get the scoop at Facebook breaches privacy: Czar Rather than an overreach by government, this seems to be a very... Podcast: Secondary Uses of Patient Information - Can we Protect Confidentiality? August 5, 2009 By Alan Brookstone Categories: General eHealth Increasing amounts of health information are being collected and stored electronically as a result of the rising adoption of electronic health records in hospitals and medical practices. There is a significant demand for this information among academic and commercial researchers, public health... Applications vs. aggregations in the cloud August 4, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General I was talking with someone earlier this week about cloud-based solution architecture. They had a leader who wanted to see a template "application architecture". I told them that the whole concept of an "application" may be relatively meaningless when we talk about truly cloud based solutions using... Please select a category:
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