Communication. Community. Commerce. These words share ancient Latin linguistic roots, and they all indicate some sort of coming together. War has been described variously as a breakdown of one or all of them.  The mainstream media typically portray the Middle East as a desert of war, but scattered ...

Trailing a year's worth of economic challenges for businesses and consumers alike, the recession has hit — hard. While many undoubtedly look to curb spending and get the most from assets already in hand, field service organizations will be in the spotlight. To make the most out of this diamond opp...

Photo credit: cambodia4kidsorg Establishing a solid ROI for enterprise social software is an ongoing discussion for the sector. It is generally a requirement for most technology decisions made by companies. At a high level, there are two sides to this argument: Measuring Enterprise 2.0 ROI is like t...

More sage wisdom from our friend Anon(ymous). I have to say, she (he?) really has a way with words—and a certain subtlety of thought. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. (Just before you trip and fall!) Education is what you get from reading the fin...

IBM got a leg up on Microsoft this week at the CeBIT show in Hanover, Germany, when it performed a "groundbreaking technology demonstration," moving a live SAP application from one cloud-based server to another. This would hardly be considered groundbreaking in the context of an on-premise data cent...

Upgraded: Weird contraband found at airports Downgraded: Pigeon welfare The NY Daily News has a set of photos of items found by customs agents at airports. Most are drug related, but my favorite has to be this image of a man with pigeons wrapped up and kept in his long underwear: “Sir, your pa...

There was a small pro-coal rally held in Washington, DC on Monday and the National Wildlife Federation was able to catch snippets of one of the pro-coal keeners talking to the media. The rally was organized by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) as a counter to the 2,000 youth who held a mass...

Everybody's talking about it.  We need to work out how to make our organisation sustainable, they say.  But what does it actually mean?  And is it possible? I work quite a lot with third sector organisations, and many of them approach social enterprise with a Robin Hood perspec...

British SMEs thinking India Chinwag along with UKTI (UK Trade and Industry) hosted a very interesting event yesterday: Digital Business India. The aim of the event was to get UK business consider expanding overseas to India. I went along as a guest and spent most of my time exploring the opporutniti...

IT, Storage, startups Wade Roush wrote: If you ate on your best china every night, flew first class even on puddle jumpers, and habitually drove your Mercedes rather than your minivan to the grocery store, it would be a lot like what most big companies do with their data, according to Tom Cook. More...