Month: March 2012
Hitachi Data Systems: making social media work for B2B
Marketing & Innovation
29/03/2012
Hitachi Data Systems: making social media work for B2B
Sharon Crost is Global Online Marketing and B2B Social Media Manager at Hitachi Data Systems and she delivered what I believe is one of the most inspiring presentations on March 27 at Blogwell in San Francisco. B2B, it didn’t come as as surprise to me ( I made a presentation…
Yahoo! movies Summer program: from 200,000 to 1.2 million likes
social media & social networks
28/03/2012
Yahoo! movies Summer program: from 200,000 to 1.2 million likes
This Yahoo! presentation kicked off my fifth Blogwell session (overall, this was the nineteenth session) since the end of 2008, time flies! This meeting took place in San Francisco in the beautiful Golden Gate Club venue in the Presidio park, a stone’s throw from the Golden Gate bridge. Not only…
Engine Yard’s Dillon: A private cloud is an oxymoron
Digital technology
27/03/2012
Engine Yard’s Dillon: A private cloud is an oxymoron
As cloud computing technology is booming there is talk of the so-called private cloud. As I was in San Francisco today, I managed to squeeze into a meeting with some of my former partners of the IT press tour. Today we visited Engine Yard, a new player at the forefront…
Sugar CRM: the rise of a new customer relations champion
CRM and CX
13/03/2012
Sugar CRM: the rise of a new customer relations champion
This is the third Sugar CRM executive to be interviewed by visionary marketing.com. My first interview took place two years ago with Larry Augustin, CEO and founder of the CRM company, who is also one of the people who coined the phrase: “open source”. After a brief Skype encounter with…
immersion makes retro gaming experience richer on tablets
Digital technology
01/03/2012
immersion makes retro gaming experience richer on tablets
The gaming experience on tablets isn’t really what it should be, but all this may change soon thanks to Immersion, a San Jose based company which was set up 18 years ago to develop force-feedback controllers for joysticks and other gaming equipment manufacturers such as Sony, Logitech etc. Immersion is…