A good friend is working through her MBA and in the context of her studies is conducting a survey to better understand health insurance from the consumer’s point of view. The survey takes 5-10 minutes to complete, and is fully anonymous and confidential. Data is gathered only for academic purposes. Willing to help out? http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/UnderstandHealthInsuranceVI

I’m in the process of redesigning CagedEther after inspiration following a Theme Framework session. On investigating different WordPress themes, I came across a system to that may well help me juggle and organize the various pieces I want to squeeze into my blog’s latest incarnation. First though, a minor detour into my personal history, to [...]

Fellow IBMer Kevin Czap recently took the position of the community manager for the developerWorks Cloud Computing Central group. DeveloperWorks is IBM’s central external resource for developers and IT professionals and Kevin defined his role as follows: The Community Managers act as an advocate for the Community. They are the eyes and ears of their [...]

This session focussing on online content at the TechTarget Online ROI Summit was presented by Bill Crowley, VP, Group Publisher, Data Center Media, TechTarget. The core of this presentation: most technical buyers information needs change over the buying process. What is the buying process? The old AID(A) model is useful as a starting point here. [...]

Mario Sundar picks up on the Technorati list of top corporate blogs. These include his own LinkedIn, Dell, Lenovo, Adobe and Google. As with the Forrester list, tech blogs feature prominently. Read more

Welcome to this first post in the Slideschool Series. The aim of this series is to uncover and explain web services and applications that have a major part to play in our evolving online existence. First off is Friendfeed. [kml_flashembed movie="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=whyilikefriendfeed-1217794333943131-8&rel=0&stripped_title=why-i-like-friendfeed" width="425" height="355" wmode="transparent" /] (View presentation on Slideshare) Friendfeed is a nifty tool for [...]

So, it finally happened. After years of happily importing images into Picasa and clearing the disk in the camera, we finally pushed the wrong button and cleared out a whole set of debauched bachelorette photos, many of which could have possibly held some quite senior San Francisco socialites to ransom. We fretted and Googled and [...]

Crisis Blogger picks up on the recent lawcase against one of Cisco’s employee’s blogs. Interesting how this has been picked up by the media – many a horror story of how employee blogging can turn foul. However the Cisco case is somewhat different – the anonymous blog had been setup not as an obvious link [...]