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by Donald Greg on February 28, 2010
If you could change one thing in your sales office, I know what it would be. You'd find a way to spend less time generating leads and more time following up on those leads to generate sales, ri...
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by Scott Wilson on December 21, 2009
I don't know how it manages to sneak up on me every year, but here we are again, nearly Christmas and I'm frantically shopping and packing up for the annual pilgrimage, and as usual, plan to...
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by Scott Wilson on July 17, 2009
As summertime comes to the Pacific Northwest, workers get lazy and gazes start to linger on the cool blue and green scenery just outside the office windows. I am by no means immune to this malady and ...
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by Scott Wilson on June 7, 2009
Courtesy of Thomas Wailgum, telling us the difference between "What a CIO Says, and What He's Really Thinking." I don't doubt that a few of these have run through your minds from tim...
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by Scott Wilson on March 18, 2009
Just a quick note; this is my first post since the change over yesterday of the CIO Weblog to run using Amazon's EC2 and S3 systems on the back-end. I can feel it running faster already!
The blog...
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by Scott Wilson on February 5, 2009
They are performing some upgrades behind the scenes here today; although the site should remain up I the posting system won't be back until later tonight... I'll resume regular posting when it...
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by Scott Wilson on January 31, 2009
I figured maybe it was just because I was up early and hadn't had my coffee yet. But after trying it on three different computers, I'm pretty sure that Google has gone bonkers today. Every non...
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by Scott Wilson on September 19, 2008
Short housekeeping message here... I have noted a few times when the blogging software here has eaten my previously published posts, and this seems to be the case with yesterday's "Is VMWorld...
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by Scott Wilson on May 19, 2008
If you're detecting a slightly lower frequency of posts here, there is a good reason for it: namely, I am taking a two month sabbatical and sailing north up the Inside Passage to Alaska (or as clo...
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by Scott Wilson on April 1, 2008
It's hard enough to separate fact from fiction on the 'net today so I'm not even going to try. Nor am I creative enough to come up with my own joke, so I'll just link to others I found...
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by Scott Wilson on March 11, 2008
I caught the original spat between Techcrunch's Michael Arrington and Redfin's Glen Kelman when it first popped up last month, debating whether or not Seattle is now in contention to be "...
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by Scott Wilson on March 8, 2008
Daylight Savings Time, at least in the US. For the first time in a couple of years, I can't think of any imminent catastrophe waiting to happen to any electronic devices the instant the clock hicc...
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by Scott Wilson on March 1, 2008
I saw the same Seattle Times article as Nick Malik and had a similar thought to that expressed in his blog post: there ought to be an open source fix for this issue.
The issue, briefly, is one faced ...
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by Scott Wilson on December 6, 2007
Todd Bishop at the Seattle PI, among others, is reporting on a testy exchange on Tuesday between Bill Gates and blogger Jonathan Snook over whether or not Microsoft has been innovative or reactionary ...
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by Scott Wilson on October 26, 2007
It must seem like Michael Krigsman is paying me off, considering how often I've been linking to him lately, but I swear, it's really just that he keeps posting stuff that piques my interest.
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by Scott Wilson on October 18, 2007
Microsoft's Silverlight project, a browser-based Flash competitor, is apparently sparking some concern among the states which sued, and won, against the company based on anti-trust violations. Led...
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by Scott Wilson on October 16, 2007
Much of the speculation over the first Linux patent lawsuits filed last week against Red Hat and Novell revolved around whether or not Microsoft-famously vocal about its belief that its patents were b...
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by Scott Wilson on October 15, 2007
It's Ballmer Gone Wild at the Gartner Symposium in Orlando this past week, it seems... in addition to the previously described dust-up with analyst Yvonne Genovese, we are getting word now of Stev...
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by Scott Wilson on October 10, 2007
If Mom had been an experienced former IBM consultant and current distinguished Vice President of Research at Gartner, that is. Gartner analyst Yvonne Genovese served up a warm helping of something to ...
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by Scott Wilson on October 9, 2007
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer is out on the warpath again, spreading Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt about potential patent infringement issues in Linux. This time, he's targeting Red Hat specificall...
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by Scott Wilson on October 5, 2007
This post is apropos of nothing to do with CIOs or technology in general, but I just couldn't not say anything when I saw this gem on the Microsoft PR wire today: "Microsoft and Bungie Studi...
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by Scott Wilson on September 15, 2007
Well, maybe not exactly. But neither the evil empire of yore, according to this recent post from Mary Jo Foley. Writing in response to the upcoming resolution of Microsoft's appeal of the landmark...
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by Scott Wilson on September 11, 2007
So, after some review I have kept a few items from the previous tenant and added a few new ones to my own taste. I imagine it will be a work in progress, though, so please keep getting me suggestions ...
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by Scott Wilson on September 6, 2007
So I still have most of the previous tenant's links and recommendations over in the sidebar. I don't want to empty it out, and intend no disrespect to those choices and recommendations, but al...
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by Scott Wilson on September 5, 2007
Hello, my name is Scott Wilson and I will be writing for the CIO Weblog starting today.
Although I am not a CIO, I am the owner and principal consultant at Indigo Moon Systems Consulting, based out o...
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by Creative Weblogging on September 3, 2007
Yippy! We have a new blogger for our CIO Weblog. Look out for him to stop by here very soon.
Thank you to all the applicants. As usual, we had some talented folks apply and it was not an easy decisi...
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by Creative Weblogging on August 28, 2007
Creative Weblogging is looking for a blog editor to take over this blog. Applicants should be prepared to commit to daily posting and adhere to all contract requirements, some of which you can see on ...
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by prashanth on February 23, 2007
Excerpts from AMI report on the topic:
Both ERP and CRM are increasingly becoming mainstream applications for U.S. medium businesses (MBs), according to AMI-Partners. Over one third of respondent MBs ...
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by prashanth on January 1, 2007
India's domestic IT Market including hardware, software and services is expected to grow at 21.5% during 2007 to touch Rs.75,891 crores. This will make India the fastest growing market in theh Asi...
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by prashanth on December 29, 2006
During the Sapphire'06 at Orlando, Hasso Plattner's key note was on design a topic he seems be really interested in, he helped launch and fund at the Institute of Design at California's St...
