Every once in a while, someone suggests that vendors pay me for coverage. The latest accusation actually used the term “pay-for-play”, which is a derogatory term for industry analysts who require that vendors be their paid clients before they receive any coverage by the analyst, and is often considered to be unethical. Vendors who work [...]
Tagged rantThis week at bpmNEXT was my first solo outing with the new blogging setup: Google Nexus 7 tablet, Logitech Bluetooth keyboard, and WordPress app for Android. I was also working on a white paper for a client, so had to edit and view documents in Word and PowerPoint formats, for which I use use the [...]
Tagged logitech, nexus, wordpressThis blog has been inundated with comment spam lately: yesterday, I deleted over 4,600 spam comments that had accumulated in the spam folder in the past two weeks, which is about 100x the usual volume. Akismet is doing a great job of trapping it, since I’m only seeing one or two per week pass through [...]
Since the Jetpack plugin is now available on self-hosted WordPress sites, I’m gradually rolling out more of its features. Today, I enabled its mobile theme (disabling the previous MobilePress plugin, which hasn’t been updated in over two years), please let me know if you experience any problems with it. Note that it only changes the [...]
In the anticipation of ramping back up with blogging this year, I’m doing a bit of housekeeping. I’ve been getting the urge to write things longer than 140 characters at a time, and to keep my content someplace where I have better control over it, prompted in part by this article. First of all, I’m [...]
For those of you who see me at conferences occasionally, you may see a new (and even smaller) setup in front of me next time: my Google Nexus 7 tablet (which I carry with me anyway as an ebook reader and general media device) and a new Logitech Tablet Keyboard for Android, plus the WordPress [...]
I attended one conference back in January, but the season really starts to ramp up about now through June, and I kicked it off with the Kofax conference in San Diego earlier this week. Just a few disclaimers about my participation in conferences, in case I forget to mention it in each case: Conference organizers [...]
I’ve been blogging a long time, and participate in webinars with some of my vendor clients, but I don’t do any podcasting (yet). Here at PodCamp Toronto 2012, I had the opportunity to sit through a short session with Paul Bearne on doing a simple podcast: record, edit and post to WordPress. In addition to [...]
Tagged pcto2012As an interesting follow on to the previous session on blog monetization, I attended a panel on maintaining integrity on blogs when you do advertising or promotions on your site, featuring Danny Brown, Gini Dietrich and Eden Spodek. A lot of this is about transparency and disclosure; one audience member said that she writes paid [...]
Tagged pcto2011, torcampThe next session that I attended was Andrea Tomkins talking about how to make money through advertising on your blog. She started with ways that blogs can pay off without direct monetization, such as driving other sorts of business (just as this blog often drives first contacts for my consulting business) and leveraging free trips [...]
Tagged pcto2011, torcampI arrived at PodCamp Toronto after the lunch break today; “PodCamp” is a bit of a misnomer since this unconference now covers all sorts of social media. My first session of the day with Brian Cugelman on the psychology of websites was a bit of a disappointment: too much of a lecture and not enough [...]
Tagged pcto2011, torcampSeems that there’s a problem with this theme on IE6 and IE7 – I only tested on IE8, my bad. I’ll get a fix in this weekend, either a new theme or a modified version of this one. Thanks for your patience! Update: I’ve reinstalled my old theme for now, although now the header gradient [...]
I’ve been seeing some performance problems with this blog, and have moved it over to PressHarbor on the advice of my friend Joey, who uses it for his very popular blog that sees a lot more traffic that I do. I’ve also changed the theme to a cleaner look that supports a few additional features [...]
Dennis Howlett has a post today about paper.li, a service to create a daily roundup of the content collected by the people who you follow on Twitter. Sound confusing? Click through to read Dennis’ article and the one that he points to by Neville Hobson. Basically, if I follow you on Twitter and you tweet [...]
It’s been quiet for several months for conferences, but things are heating up again for the next four weeks. Here’s my upcoming schedule: This week, I’m at PegaWorld in Philadelphia, including chairing a workshop on Wednesday morning on case management The week of May 3rd, IBM Impact in Las Vegas The week of May 10th, [...]
Tagged IBM, ibm-conferences, pegasystems, pegaworld, SAP, sapphire, TIBCOI recently swapped around my office space, and found some old (paper) notebooks that I browsed through before shredding. One of them, from 2006, contained a page of notes that I jotted down about why consultants don’t blog: Not enough time Too few “outside” interests (aside from proprietary customer work), hence nothing interesting to blog [...]
As of today, I’ve been writing this blog for five years. My first post was on BPTrends’ 2005 BPM Suites Report, and I’m still pretty focused on BPM, although have branched out to cover a wider variety of Enterprise 2.0 and collaboration topics as well. In the beginning, it was just labeled as my business [...]
Thanks to Zoli, the 25% of my readers whose first language is probably not English (as indicated by the browser language setting) can now view this site in 50 other languages, thanks to a new widget in the sidebar. If you read this through Google Reader, then you can set it to auto-translate there, instead: [...]
If you ever wonder what BPM analyst/architect/bloggers do in their spare time, wonder no more: Ignite T.O. Sandy Kemsley -The Hungry Geek from Ignite Toronto on Vimeo. I was invited to give a presentation at Ignite! Toronto this week, and decided to discuss how I’ve been using social media – Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, blogging – [...]
Tagged web20Via Mashable, I discovered a cool little gadget this morning: Retaggr, which allows me to create a profile page and badge with all my social media links, then embed it on my blog or website: You can click on the links within it to show the content from those sites directly within the badge, or [...]
