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Writing a book
Warning: Audio download may not be complete, video replay is complete! Today’s show was about writing books, books written, pressure, stress and of course the upcoming SAP TechEd 2009 events! Talking...
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Book Review: CMMI for Services
If you’re serious about your service business and you’ve got most of your functions under control, then you’re ready to implement a quality program. One of the best known programs for service firms is...
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Book Giveaway : Blogging to Drive Business
I have 12 copies of a new book, in fact I don’t even think it’s available thru Amazon yet, Blogging to Drive Business. The name makes it pretty obvious what it’s about, so all I will add is that I read...
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Reading is Writing: Illuminating The Digital Manuscript
Back in 2004 I wrote post called The Death of Consumer Electronics. Wishful thinking of course. My central, hopeful, argument is that we’re actually content creators, not consumers. What exactly do...
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The Courier & Foldable Tablets are Neither Innovative Nor “Different”
This is a sad “I’ve told you” moment, as I predicted the death of dual-screen tablets, be it the one by MSI or Microsoft’s Courier, which has just been canceled. Says Frank Shaw, Microsoft’s VP of...
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Great Read for Small Businesses and Startups: The Referral Engine
I loved John Jantsch’s book, “The Referral Engine“. Like the book jacket says, it’s about teaching your business to market itself. It’s funny, but I expected the book to be about something else from...
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An author’s hour in heaven
Malcolm Galdwell illustration by Remie Geoffroi - click through to read the Creative Journey When I started to write the book, a friend of mine wise cracked “All you need is a hairdo like Malcolm...
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The gift of a book
I have benefited from generosity of many, many in the research, interviewing, proofing, reviews, now marketing of the book. So, in turn I and others are turning around and giving back in several ways:...
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The Kno is Not a Tablet. It’s a Workout Device
Seriously. At 5 and a half pounds it’s not exactly a lightweight tablet you would want to hold for hours. I have a very simple test for you: if you have an average 14”-15” laptop around, flip it open,...
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Hi and lo-tech in Pacific Northwest
I took my son, Tommy along on a book trip to the great Northwest and I am so glad I did. It gave me a chance to do some detours I have missed out on since 1990 when my wife and I had been to some of...
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On innovation
(image of Scott Berkun presenting via Chasingfun cc attribution. Thanks!) In this interview on the O’Reilly blog Scott Berkun nails it. How do you define “innovation”? Scott Berkun: I strongly...
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A short, sort of review of Nicholas Carr’s “The Shallows. What Google is...
Many technology writers deify or reify technology. There is often an assumption that more technology is by definition a good thing. Nicholas Carr’s recent book challenges that. This is probably why...
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Terrific Reads, Part 1
Image credit: schani via Flickr Just finished a year and a half of unblogging. Had a gig, and oddly enough, what they wanted was exclusive access to my opinions about technology. So it wouldn’t have...
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Amazon, Macmillan and me
In the on-going battle between published content and distribution that Larry Dignan summarizes well at ZDNet I should, as a blogger and the fact that I have a book coming out, be unabashedly on the...
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Life Lessons from Warren Buffett Letter and Seth Godin’s Linchpin
I am an avid fan of Warren Buffett letters, and today is my lucky day because we have a new annual letter. And it comes with not just the update for the year but for the benefit of the new shareholders...
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Fred Brooks : The Design Of Design
After a long time, I got the opportunity to read a new book, that I would have loved to read several years back aptly named – The Design Of Design. Several decades back, the onset of a discipline...
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AbleAdvisory: Living With Complexity (book)
Here’s a thumbs up to Don Norman’s (for a discussion on complex v. simple software applications and bootstrapping click thru to Joel Spolsky’s discussion on simplicity) New book, Living with...
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Redefining Digital Enterprise(s) by Reimagining Possibilities
Karl Heinz Streibich is the CEO of Software AG – a very well-known name in the technology industry has now come up with a book titled- The Digital Enterprise, bringing out the moves and motives of...
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