Bullpen Bulletins

Executive perspectives on business interaction

This is a round table discussion that I moderated for the Economist Intelligence Unit. We explored how executives are handling effective communications in a globalized marketplace. I chatted with Joan Parsons, head of US Banking at Silicon Valley Bank and Morten Hansen, author and professor at UC Berkeley. Cisco was the sponsor.

Business leader insights into consumer-driven technology

This is a round table discussion I moderated for the Economist Intelligence Unit with Steve Ellis with Wells Fargo and Dr. Alan Weston with NASA. CA Technologies was the sponsor.

User interface and the network

This is the third of a three-part series that I hosted for the Economist Intelligence Unit in collaboration with Juniper Networks' NExTWORK program.

The third one entitled: INNOVATION IN USER INTERFACE is a conversation between myself, Bo Begole, Aza Raskin, and Tim Twerdahl.

How will we interface with the network as our physical and digital worlds converge?

Entertainment and the network

This is the second of a three-part series that I hosted for the Economist Intelligence Unit in collaboration with Juniper Networks' NExTWORK program.

The second one entitled: INNOVATION IN ENTERTAINMENT is a conversation between myself, Mark Cuban, Dermot McCormack, and Ben Huh.

How did the entertainment industry shape the Internet? … and vise versa?

 

Education and the network

This is the first of a three-part series that I hosted for the Economist Intelligence Unit in collaboration with Juniper Networks' NExTWORK program.

The first one entitled: INNOVATION IN EDUCATION - Lessons for enterprise

is a conversation between myself, Prof. Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Dr. Jill Tarter, and Salman Khan.

What lessons can enterprise and academia learn from each other?

 

Chat with Intuit CIO Ginny Lee - The Importance of Cloud

Intuit CIO Ginny Lee spoke with me at the SIIA All About the Cloud Conference about the important role cloud computing and mobile play in serving customers and enhancing Intuit's business. Here are the two segments I found most interesting.

Hijacked!!

Anyone reading this blog yesterday may have seen a subject line that read:

"my girlfriend's self-view video"

There was also a link inside that enticed people to see this video. Obviously, someone has hacked my account. The hacker also sent the link to my e-mail list. Thankfully, a guy named Dennis let me know about this blog post. (thanks Dennis)

My apologies to anyone who accidentally clicked on the link.

To the hacker or hackers out there... not cool guys.

<update> - Security software tells me the hack came from China on October 20.  Definitely not cool.

Does Steve Jobs Hate Enterprise IT?

Good question.

Video discussion here at Internet Evolution

During his interview at the D8 Conference, Jobs pointed out that in the enterprise, the people that end up using the products don't decide for themselves what technology is the best. And the people that make those decisions sometimes are confused.

Fair enough, but Apple is permeating in so many areas of the enterprise these days that he would be remiss to ignore that part of the business much more, especially with so many iPhones used in corporate culture and the iPad coming online.

'Brain'-Fueled Internet Could Change CIO Thinking

From Internet Evolution 9/21/2009

If the brain is a network of neurons and the Internet is a network of nodes, can we develop the Internet to be a brain? Well, evidence suggests the Internet is already a brain and we're in the process of developing it into something larger and more useful.

At least that's basic precept of a book I've been reading this past week, Wired for Thought, written by Jeffrey Stibel, in which he discusses the implications of the evolution of the Internet as a brain -- not as an evil overlord that will one day replace humans, but as a sympathetic, predictive, and well intentioned network designed around the concepts that we carry around in our own brains.

Please read the rest of the article.

Non-Profit Lessons For The Enterprise

The non-profit sector has much to teach and learn from enterprise Web 2.0.

This is my video conversation with "Mobilizing Generation 2.0" author Ben Rigby who is also co-executive director with Mobile Voter and Jacob Colker, a Grassroots field consultant.

We also talk about their project: The Extraordinaries

Interview done at the Craigslist Foundation Non-Profit Boot Camp in San Mateo on Oct. 18, 2008.