I am starting to get more requests for “blog love” at a time when I have less and less desire to write. I am quickly coming to the realization that much of the stuff people are asking me to write about just isn’t that interesting. Quite honestly, I don’t want to simply echo w...

Getting in touch with my Inner Jazz ` Vinnie Mirchandani, fellow Enterprise Irregular was gracious to invite me to guest blog reflecting on Atlassian hitting a new milestone: $100 million in all-time sales since inception. It’s not about the milestone, as reaching 14,706 customers as of today ...

Yesterday at the 15th Annual Stanford University Accel Symposium, I heard an energizing talk with Chris Hughes, Facebook, and Architect of Obama’s Digital Campaign Strategies, and Matthew Barzun, National Finance Team for Obama and Former Chief Strategy Officer, CNET Networks, Inc. on “Techn...

This post is fourth in a series of my Social Media Principles.  The base post is 10 Social Media Principles . 4. Decentralization is freedom – Decentralized power structures spur creativity, growth, and innovation. Note:  Writing a short blog post on this is like writing a short blog post on why...

Paul Graham points out that big company checks on purchasing usually have costs, such as purchasing checks increase the costs of purchased items because the vendors have to factor in their costs of passing the checks. Such things happen constantly to the biggest organizations of all, governments. Bu...

   As some of you may know, I launched a new, simple cms system yesterday called Clover Content. I thought you might be interested in understanding why I spent the last year developing yet another cms. There’s a real problem with content management systems. I’m not talking abou...

In spite of the delayed affect this economy seems to be having on technology, investors have no doubt, hence the market reaction. What does this mean for customers? What should one do differently when buying software? Part of my focus here is on Enterprise 2.0 and Web 2.0 software, but the advice ge...

Yesterday, I had the pleasure and honor of listening to Tim Berry, President and founder of Palo Alto Software. Palo Alto makes Business Plan Pro and Marketing Plan Pro—these are the best in the business. Tim was kind enough to come up to Corvallis for Speaker Lunch, which is hosted by Chris Nordy...

Merely deleting files from the hard drive will not permanently get rid of them. Wipe disk applications ensure that deleted files can no longer be retrieved or recovered. As people become more technologically-savvy, the more imperative it is for both individuals and business organizations to take dat...

For 15 minutes each day our virtual team — three people in Manhattan, two in Brooklyn, one in London, one in Knoxville and myself in Greensboro — gets together to report what we’ve finished, what we’re working on and list the obstacles in our way to getting things done. Reggi...