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In times of uncertainty there's a risk of getting stuck. Your team may be sitting on their hands waiting for more news or information. How do you get them moving? Don't let your own feelings of ...

I am defrinately going a bit exhibition gaga. This is manifesting itself as an irrational desire to pull the plug on the DJ who has been mixing an unbridled diet of Moby-style music for the last 9 ...

There are some winners in the downturn - supporting the adage that there's always opportunity in hard times. The model is simplicity, i.e. getting back to basics. From food - turnip farmers are ...

The first full day at Tech-Ed (part 2) consisted of a stream of visits to our stand from people with questions I am not yet qualified to answer. Its a bit frustrating but Rome was not built in a ...

I needed to travel up the Av.Diagonal today to attend a couple of meetings in a Hotel at the other end of town. It was more than a little amusing to run into an IBM Websphere Technical conference ...

Reputation is your brand and a most important asset. With a generation having enjoyed the faux-pas' of youth in the pubescent and public gaze of Facebook et al, a set of protocols are developing in ...

We were having a lateish evening at the Bar of the 5* Hilton here in Barcelona. Our ladies had just popped out to do the things that ladies do and my colleague was engaging me in earnest discussion ...

The last two days of a long (first) week have been topped off by my appearance on the Tech-Ed TV website. Playing 'Paxman' to Mark Ryan's 'Minister' we blew away some of the myths surrounding ...

I have not started mainliing, the Opium in question was Barcleona's cinema / night club of the same name which provided the location for the UK Tech-Ed reception. It was good to chill-out and meet ...

I had the job once of going through the desk of a suicide at the office. He had laid out in detail the reason for his decision. - In simple terms he had an illness that would show up in his next ...

Well maybe not quite all of it, but if you are reading this in Barcelona then send a email to grvte08@microsoft.com and this Friday you can have a full day of free Groove training. At the end of ...

The downturn/recession may provide a useful cover for companies to make cuts they wouldn't be able to get away with at other times - i.e. pull the christmas party, withdraw sponsorship, stop ...

I suspect welcome receptions are the same the world over. A chance to catch up with old friends, chase after some dubious morsels from a finger buffet and the first chance to extend the various ...

It is estimated that by 2020, the IT and Telecommunications industries will account for about 3% of all greenhouse gas emissions, or 1.54 metric gigatons, equivalent to twice what the UK produces ...

Dry, but not in the alcoholic or drought context, we just have had no running water in the hotel this morning. The queue for the Gym shower resembled a scene from the 'Great Escape'. Stiff upper ...

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pdc_ozzieAs the new dude in town, and with a cold wind whipping in from the economic prairies, this year's PDC and  its associated announcements have given me more than simply a software sugar ...

Cisco CEO John Chambers was interviewed at the 2008 Gartner Symposium. This Southern gentleman made a compelling case for rich unified collaboration - a trend across the whole industry.  ...

I watched the live stream from the PDC Keynotes for both days 1&2. From my reading of the Twitosphere, many felt that Ozzie's pitch too much like marketing flim-flam. To me it seemed that he ...

When I was young, things were easier. Today, millions of hard-working fluent English speaking graduates from around the world will enter the search for work/money/status with no expectations of ...

A friend at Friends of the Earth tells me that while they are thrilled that the economic downturn will take pressure off the planet climate wise, the downside is that it makes fundraising ...

One of the key areas for industrial grade collaboration is Compliance and by now you would have thought most European companies will have worked that out for themselves. But no, according to a ...

From to 'Red Dog' code-name to the announcement of Microsoft Windows Azure (very blue), Ray Ozzie with his friends delivered a deft 2 hours presentation that opened the kimono to Microsoft's ...

IBM has launched a hosted version of its Lotus Notes messaging software, allowing companies with 1,000 to 10,000 employees to use the messaging platform without the need to purchase and install ...

While Barak Obama is pressing for change, many organisations are being forced into it; so how can you shorten the odds that any change program will bring about the intended results -- without ...

I've have never attended a big Microsoft conference before, after many years of attending Lotusphere it will be quite an experience for me to attend the European TechEd in seven days time. ...

Just a great little story I found on the the BBC website.'A dog has risked its life to protect four kittens trapped in a house fire in Melbourne, Australia.'Check out the full story and video here

I have known (to a small extent) Ray Ozzie since around 1995. Ray is clearly a man of huge vision with an intellect to match. On rare occasions at big events he has shown the ability to enthuse a ...

With the world in flux, the basis of power is moving from organisations to networks that have the ability to mobilise quickly, accomplish their goal, and then disperse. How do we respond in a world ...

If you like good conspiracy theories try this one for size. The world economic collapse was brought about deliberately by political force in the face of overwhelming concern about the environment. ...