Tracking the Influencers
I had a conversation with a friend a few years back who had become a stock broker and made millions – just out of...
Category: Random Thoughts
My advice? Re-Post it.
I was just responding to a comment by Tom Resing on my last blog post, and thought it would be worthwhile to expand on...
Evangelism, Sales, and Marketing
After posting some thoughts on the topic in January, I shared some back and forth Facebook comments with my father-in-law around the role of...
I Will Never Be Michael Noel
Returning from a 10-day trip to Boston, St. Louis and San Diego, I came to a very harsh realization that I will never be...
“Marketing” does not equal “Building Loyalty”
The traditional sales and marketing models do not always apply to SharePoint. Why? I think it has much to do with SharePoint being a...
What it Means to be "Neutral"
<rant> File this one under Mild Venting: I am an active SharePoint community member, but many of the presentations I give on SharePoint and...
Branding 101
A topic of interest for me over this past month has been the importance of design, and – more specifically – concepts of color...
Breaking the Suck Threshold
One of my favorite blogs ever was Kathy Sierra’s ‘Creating Passionate Users.’ She had over 400 posts, most with some of the most brilliant...
Community Development 1-2-3
After posting my Tips on Hosting a SharePoint Saturday Event last night, I got to thinking about an even more basic topic – how...
We Need an End User Content Revolution
I started my career as a technical writer, developing engineering and marketing materials in the telecom and BI spaces, and trying to translate confusing...
