Twitter Updates for 2010-03-20
March 20, 2010
- RT @mashable Facebook Warns of New Email Scam [ALERT] http://bit.ly/9eixrp #
- No kidding! RT @JesyHeron @rusty_todd @prolix21: really? 2010 and the census is still paper? no electronic option? #
- Dewey's Pizza for Lunch. Yum! http://www.deweyspizza.com #
- Disappointing but understandable. RT @SocialMediaRule Rely heavily on Google Analytics? You won’t like this.: http://tinyurl.com/ycmu79q #
- You'll report on anything, eh? LOL RT @GuyKawasaki Uggs: A fashion and podiatry nightmare http://tinyurl.com/yfnwlvg #
- To a user…yes. RT @ZDNetBlogs Is SaaS the same as cloud? http://zd.net/cyTu3t #
- Good read to start your Friday. RT @ThisIsSethsBlog Seth's Blog: First and never http://bit.ly/bJ9D4A #
Twitter Updates for 2010-03-19
March 19, 2010
- RT @TARGIT Check out the TARGIT Newsletter: http://bit.ly/c652Wy #
Twitter Updates for 2010-03-18
March 18, 2010
- Really?!?! RT @GabeElliott @Twitter CEO: We Want You to Spend Less Time on Twitter: http://digg.com/d31Ln9o?t #
Twitter Updates for 2010-03-17
March 17, 2010
- Ideas are great. Please people…write..stuff..down! #frustratedtoday #
- IMHO Every mtg should have a list of AI at the end. RT @NYEWeek Small actionable steps win the race over the long-term. #fb #NYEW #
- Scheduling a Webinar with @Targit. Interested? #BITools #businessintelligence #
- New Blog post from @jdetzel Good enough? http://bit.ly/97y1yP #
- Agreed RT @GuyKawasaki 7 ways to be nice on Twitter http://tinyurl.com/yfckxs7 #
- Thank you!!! Thank You!! RT @GuyKawasaki Total coverage of lacrosse news: http://om.ly/gzxK #
Good enough?
March 16, 2010
When is good enough, well, good enough? I suppose that depends, one old argument says that close only works in horseshoes and hand grenades. Can it work with decision making? How about decision support systems? Is good enough the manually created spreadsheets that over 90% of organizations use for decision support? I would argue that while it’s not good enough, most business decision makers work that way.
To get at the data that most executives feel they need to make accurate decisions, many turn to the manual modification of existing reports, or the creation of their own “Pet” spreadsheet they use almost daily, or certainly many times a week.
In an update to a report cited last spring on this site, a September, 2009 Dartmouth University study suggests that the error rates in formulas on spreadsheets in their study were only .087% of all formulas they audited. HOWEVER, these were in cases where the formula produced the WRONG RESULT, and actually resulted in 87% OF THE SPREADSHEETS REVIEWED having errors in which the spreadsheet then produced the wrong result.
How good is good enough? What if you could reproduce the “Pet” spreadsheet in a true Business Intelligence solution which would ensure that the data and results in the sheet were as solid as the data in your transactional systems in the first place? How much does the wrong data or the wrong decision cost you, or your company? I would argue that “good enough” might just be good enough, if you could ensure that the data was accurate, and mitigated the possibility of error, while increasing the timeliness of the information to the decision maker. We have deployed such systems in a couple weeks’ time leveraging tools like SharePoint, Excel, and other software products that our customers already owned, and quickly delivered a system to our customer where we dramatically increased the accuracy of their information. These solutions form the basis of our iterative approach to Business Intelligence.
Twitter Updates for 2010-03-16
March 16, 2010
- Good to know. RT @MikeBoehmer57 “Supervisors should…not be used as the broadcasters of new info,” says Angela Sinickas in a new report #
- NKY Women’s Initiative Happy Hour: Mon 3/29/2010 4-7PM @ The Metropolitan Club. Networking & great conversation! http://bit.ly/bTXUpC #
- @axerickson Are you getting an iPad? in reply to axerickson #
- Congrats Tom! RT @thammergren OH Dept of Insurance latest to leverage Balanced Insight Consensus to improve their BI delivery process #
- RT @MikeBoehmer57 Some more good news @SuperJobsCtr: 600 jobs may be coming to Sharonville:…http://bit.ly/cGqfy0 #
- Yikes! RT @Gartner_inc #Gartner 60% of Virtualized Servers Will Be Less Secure Than the Physical Servers They Replace http://bit.ly/bQiDop #
- If you look at wikipedia list of old domains, beware #4 RT @mashable First Dot-com Celebrates 25th Birthday – http://bit.ly/c2dsyl #
- How do you compare? TechRepublic 2010 IT skills and salary report http://goo.gl/a967 #ITSalaries #
Twitter Updates for 2010-03-14
March 14, 2010
- I never thought of that!! RT @smexaminer 6 Powerful LinkedIn Marketing Tips for Small Businesses http://is.gd/a7FeR #
Twitter Updates for 2010-03-13
March 13, 2010
- I hate it when my stapler doesn't work. It's one of those things that you expect to work…and never does. #
- Amazing story! RT @Cincienquirer Manny Evans has lived at Cincy Children's Hospital for the past 4 years: http://is.gd/amnNt #JoshCares #
- What can you do in 10 min? RT @GuyKawasaki 10 ways to un-clutter your life every day http://tr.im/RsAK #
- Is the # important? RT @HubSpot Think Twitter hashtags & trending topics make a difference? Think again. http://bit.ly/99TYka #
Twitter Updates for 2010-03-12
March 12, 2010
- @davidebowman Help!! Need some @wordpress help if you have time. #
- Thanks @Topsy! Just added the RT feature to our blog!! bit.ly/9YTW9Y #
- Ascending the Data Infrastructure Hierarchy http://bit.ly/apCfh4 #
- Great tip! RT @technologyfirst @daytonwebdesign: Make your blog mobile-phone friendly. Here’s how: http://bit.ly/bWUTa7 #
- Day 2 of Windows 7…pretty happy. #
- Have you taken our Social Media poll? Based on the number of votes, I'm thinking "no". http://thefuturevalueofbusiness.com/ #
- @JukemFootball You'll need to stretch your legs for 2 hours…they shut down the Wi-Fi during lunch time. #panera in reply to JukemFootball #
- Put them in your blogs title. RT @HubSpot What Do Coke, Pepsi, Pampers, Dominos, Google and Facebook Have in Common? http://bit.ly/cIJvHB #
- LMAO RT @benjaminmccall: So I checked in more than 10x to gym & 4square just told me to find the greasiest burger I could as a reward #
Facebook for Business
March 10, 2010
This morning I found the article “The Facebook Imperative Cannot Be Stopped” through @TechCrunch on Twitter. In the article salesforce.com Cheif Marc Benioff discussed how the next evolution of software is to make every application like Facebook. His observation is that tools like IBM’s Lotus Notes and Microsoft’s SharePoint miss the mark when it comes to true collaboration. Tools like Notes and SharePoint allow you to collaborate on content by posting new versions or co-managing lists but have not allowed for true user collaboration and discussion. Sure they have discussion threads that can be topic focused but they aren’t seemless or as easy-to-use as Facebook.
Think about the conversations on Facebook. Your friend from out of town posts the question, “I need ideas for a 9 year old birthday party in the Cincy area”. Within minutes, the suggestion start rolling in:
Everyone that is your “friend” can comment on the question. Responses are real time. If the friend had sent an email, it would bounce through the servers and firewalls. Some would lose the mail message into their junk items, some would not respond, some would think to do it later (and then not do it). With Facebook, the question shows up in my “Most Recent” list. It’s there if I want to respond now or later. Responding is easy. All can see one another’s responses (unlike email where I may not be on a reply list). You are engaged in the conversation because it is easy and allows for debate.
If Facebook were smart they would take some of the same concepts in their free version and create a Business Edition. This edition would be installed within my firewall and rely on Active Directory for the users. New employees would be set up as they would be in email. The “friend” concept would be abolished as we are all colleagues that need to communicate with one another and all employees would be in my list. I no longer need a separate IM client, as that feature is already built in. Email is also built in…do I need corporate email? (FB mail does not allow for attachments, only links…). Additionally, my HR or event planners could post events and recieve RSVPs. The calendaring isn’t great in FB – perhaps that’s an enhancement??? To me, having a conversation with my colleagues just became considerably easier. Imagine the IT department:
Wow…wouldn’t that be great!! What features would you add to the business edition of Facebook?
- Jodie