November, 2009

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Leadership – What's Love Got To Do With it?

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Leadership – What’s Love Got To Do With it? by Starbucker on November 29, 2009 “It’s the most powerful thing there is&# – John Wooden John Wooden is a basketball coaching legend – in his 27 years at UCLA, his teams had a winning percentage of 81%, and they won a unfathomable 10 NCAA titles.

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Matching Algorithm

SoCal CTO

Because I was the Acting CTO for eHarmony at it's start, I quite often get introduced to people who have an idea for a startup company that is based on some kind of matching algorithm. They describe the company as the eHarmony of careers, clothes, jobs, college, tutoring services, doctors, service companies, investments, etc. In fact, you can get a good idea of these various things by just searching on Google for "eHarmony of" startup.

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Links for 2009-11-17 [del.icio.us]

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

5 Impressive Real-Life Google Wave Use Cases. 5 Impressive Real-Life Google Wave Use Cases: [link] [from [link]. About Mashups and Linked Data | Mashstream. Mashups and Linked Data: [link] Good primer with latest issues. [from [link]. What Enterprise Architecture Brings to the Business | Interviews | ITBusinessEdge.com. What Enterprise Architecture Brings to the Business: [link] [from [link].

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My Discussion on Dubai Radio

Steve Farber

I’ve just returned from my first trip to the United Arab Emirates where I spoke at the annual Leaders in Dubai Conference. It was wonderful to meet and listen to the other presenters, Archbishop Desmond Tutu , Benjamin Zander , Gary Hamel , Chester Elton , Jack Perkowski and David Plouffe (I listened to Al Gore , too, but didn’t meet him.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Capturing ideas

Lead on Purpose

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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20 Easy Ways to Take Social Media A Little Less Seriously

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full 20 Easy Ways to Take Social Media A Little Less Seriously by Starbucker on November 22, 2009 It was bound to happen. A novelty becomes a fad, a fad becomes a phenomenon, a phenomenon becomes an industry. At that point, it just gets more and more serious.

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Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Startup Marketing Ideas - Eric David Greenspan

SoCal CTO

I’ve recently had a chance to reconnect with Eric David Greenspan ( LinkedIn , Twitter ) He’s the CEO of Make It Work a high quality, personal, high touch technology service provider for homes and small businesses. He’s done several startups and is a board member of the Technology Council of Southern California (which is where I met him originally).

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Links for 2009-11-16 [del.icio.us]

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Preparing The Workforce E20summit Short. RT @ITSinsider @gyehuda's preso from #e20s [link] [from [link]. Dreamforce 09 : The Cloud Computing Event of the Year - salesforce.com. Up early to do a TV spot then head to the Pentagon. The big event this week is [link] in SF. The "cloud event of the year." [from [link]. 8 Ways to Use SharePoint for Social Computing - Digital Landfill.

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Prime Perspectives

The Programmer's Paradox

It all started with a dream about infinity. Well, not just one infinity, but an infinite number of them, spanning out in all directions. A repeating pattern of infinities splitting off from other infinities. It's a simple pattern, but also a very complex one. It was intriguing enough to compel me to spend some time exploring my thoughts a little deeper.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Three steps to the next big opportunity

Lead on Purpose

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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The State of the Identity Governance Market

Sailpoint

Next week, I’ll be attending the Gartner IAM Summit in San Diego. It’s safe to assume that the state of the IAM/IdM market will be top of mind at the conference, so I thought I’d share my observations: Despite tightened budgets during 2009, we are seeing strong demand for identity governance. Companies continue to invest in strengthening controls around access to their critical applications and data.

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10 Leadership Battles – And How To Win Every One of Them

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full 10 Leadership Battles – And How To Win Every One of Them by Starbucker on November 1, 2009 In our quest to become great leaders we take on a constant stream of internal battles. Each and every day we choose our sides and try to do the right things, with the objective of achieving something great.

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Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouhi

SoCal CTO

I've known Farida for quite a while. Maybe ten years. She is a go to person for me when I have questions around technology or early stage marketing and branding. I hadn't talked to her in a while and then because of a presentation I did around Social Media for Service Professionals she and I reconnected. It has been fun to get to know her again. And I'm looking forward to more interaction now that she's blogging.

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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Links for 2009-11-12 [del.icio.us]

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Go Dog Go – Google Open Sources New Prog… « /SAbackchan. RT @Furrier Google News: Go Dog Go - Google Announces Open Source Programming Language GO [link] [from [link]. Twitpic - Share photos on Twitter. Listening to @k_kristensen talk about collaborative performance with E2.0 at #e20s. @swardley on left. [link] [from [link].

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The Singular Secret of the Rockstar Programmer

Code Simplicity

Before all the laws of software , before the purpose of software , before the science of software design itself , there is a singular fact that determines the success or failure of a software developer. This fact makes the difference between the senior engineer who can seem to pick up new languages in a day and the junior developer who struggles for ten years just to get a paycheck, programming other people’s designs and never improving enough to get a promotion.

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Book Review: The Three Laws of Performance

Lead on Purpose

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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Best of Application Security (Friday, Nov. 27)

Jeremiah Grossman

Ten of Application Security industry's coolest, most interesting, important, and entertaining links from the past week -- in no particular order. Regularly released until year end. Then the Best of Application Security 2009 will be selected! Injection attacks, its not just SQL! You’ve been hacked. Now what? The meaning of metrics. Symantec exposed passwords,serials… SQL Injection, full database access Web Application Security Scanner List Facebook Worm Uses Clickjacking in the Wild Ping pong obf

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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Exclusive: Chris Garrett Reveals His Secrets of Success (and More.

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Exclusive: Chris Garrett Reveals His Secrets of Success (and More) in The Starbucker Interview by Starbucker on November 15, 2009 (From L to R) Chris Garrett, Leticia Pruitt, Me, Zena Weist & Jason Falls at SOBCon09 (cc) Shashi Bellamkonda Social Media Swami Network Solutions Chris Garrett makes it quite clear that he’s in the “business&# of blogging and new media- i

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

Visible networking is turning into a really great opportunity to get to know people better, get to meet new people, and have some interesting conversations. This time I'm getting to know Mark Geller ( LinkedIn , @markgeller ). He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. Tell me a bit about your background. Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic.

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Links for 2009-11-10 [del.icio.us]

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Social customer service. Good piece by @mfauscette on Social Customer Service: [link] [from [link]. [link]. New Cisco Collaboration Software Takes On Microsoft, IBM | Forbes [link] [from [link]. CHART OF THE DAY: Why Google Dropped $750 Million On AdMob (GOOG, AAPL). RT @GeorgeDearing "CHART OF THE DAY: Why Google Dropped $750 Million On AdMob" [link] < Good move to own the iPhone ad biz [from [link].

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Feet on the Street: A Look at Last Week’s Gartner IAM Summit

Sailpoint

Last week, the SailPoint crew gathered in force at the Gartner IAM Summit in beautiful San Diego. While the show was a bit smaller than last year’s event in Orlando, there were lots of opportunities for lively interaction with analysts, partners, and customers. One of the best aspects of shows like this is the high-quality conversations that happen everywhere – in the sessions, on the show floor, in restaurants and of course, the lobby bar!

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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Trust in business

Lead on Purpose

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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Best of Application Security (Friday, Nov. 20)

Jeremiah Grossman

Ten of Application Security industry's coolest, most interesting, important, and entertaining links from the past week -- in no particular order. Regularly released until year end. Then the Best of Application Security 2009 will be selected! OWASP Top Ten 2010 and The Principles of Secure Development Major IE8 flaw makes 'safe' sites unsafe & NoScript author's response DNS Rebinding for Scraping and Spamming Reversing JavaScript Shellcode: A Step By Step How-To Brute-Forcing Compatibility Pr

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Wanna Be a Success? Turn Over a Few More Rocks

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Wanna Be a Success? Turn Over a Few More Rocks by Starbucker on November 8, 2009 Today I’m launching my new site design (thank you Thesis and Jesse Petersen !). It was just time, given that blog platforms are evolving faster than Twitter is gaining new users (well, maybe not quite that fast).

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SEO for Startups

SoCal CTO

I recently had a conversation with an pre-launch startup where they discussed how SEO was going to be really important for them. They went on to describe a fairly common type of site that has some original content, but not much. They are in a space where there is lots of search traffic, but they didn't have anything particularly interesting to say about how they were going to get ranked.

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.

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Links for 2009-11-05 [del.icio.us]

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Yfrog - e8qk - Uploaded by itsinsider. RT @rlavigne42 Great Group Pic of @ITSinsider, @olivermarks, @sameerpatel, @dhinchcliffe. [link] #e2conf VIPparty [from [link]. Portals and KM: Forrester's Top 15 Technology Trends for Enterprise Architects. RT @BillIves my post on Forrester Top 15 Technology Trends for Enterprise Architects [link] [from [link].

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Restructuring IT: Organizing for Results

The Agile Manager

Up to this point in this series on Restructuring IT , we’ve looked at how IT has adopted an industrial model. IT has achieved scale, but at the cost of results, as is clear from the low rate of success of IT investments. We'll now take a look at how we can organize IT for results. Professional versus Industrial IT needs to reorganize for results, not scale.

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A new Leadership Development Carnival

Lead on Purpose

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay