Archive for September, 2008

“Kill It”

25Sep08

Inspired or annoyed?   I like him.


Does your team work this well together?


Ahhh… another acquisition … that makes something like 140 acquisitions for Cisco.  My friends in Santa Clara are surely digesting yet another integration into Cisco WebEx Connect storyline.  Best of luck!
Unified Communications, blah blah blah.. read about it here
I buy the vision — now its time for E X E C U T I O [...]


We’re living out of a hotel while we wait for our house to be available.  The show must go on.  The kids are now enrolled at the Concord Children’s Center.
Back to work.
//Patrick


This is a little user generated content piece I did in one day to show some folks the power of a simpler story (although this is way too complex!).  This is the mzinga story in under 5 minutes.
I did it on a  Saturday.  You can too.  Here’s how it came to [...]


Check out this preso that Barry uses when he presents the concept of “We are smarter than me”.   He and Alexa recently gave it a refresh.  I love it.


This was a follow up to the “Office2.0” conference last week. Missed the event, but I agree with the summary. Especially the SMB angle.
Gadi Shamia’s Office 2.0 Blog
This is also relevant regarding Cisco’s WebEx — entry into hosted email:
http://www.office20.com/blogs/gadi/2008/09/02/webex-microsoft-and-going-100-saas


Well written manifesto:
We used to have such crazy dreams.
The kind of dreams that brought us together, made us not mere mortals, but a movement.
We used to dream we’d get to the moon.
And we were crazy enough, fanatical enough, relentless enough, to get there.
We dreamed we’d split the atom.
Make smallpox and polio whispers from forgotten history [...]


Thanks to everyone in WebEx marketing! You are all superhuman.


Seth Godin mentioned something the other day that resonates with me as a marketer (as does much of his commentary) : Marketing fundamentals still apply in today’s world, regardless of the method of communication. Read Seth’s entry on the subject here.  You must have a competitive differentiator in the market to survive.  At Cisco and [...]