There appears to be a lot going on in the world of enterprise mobility (he says as he types this post from his iPhone on a bus at 5am). I say this after sitting and listening to a number of my client’s customers who came together yesterday I’m Orlando to talk about how they are using mobile solutions to make their operations more efficient. These were big companies saving big dollars by simply (okay, maybe not that simply) using souped up cell phones to read bar codes and radio frequency tags to capture diferent kinds of data. In doing so, they are making their companies faster, smarter and more responsive to changing conditions.
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Mike Maney’s Daily Link Highlights
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Cancer sucks. Read this first-hand account from one of the bravest people I know.
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Good tips on "working to live" that are applicable whether you are building a startup or not.
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Mike Maney’s Daily Link Highlights
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MindTouch launches the second of three planned solutions under its Collaborative Network umbrella.
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Defining the cloud
I didn’t find this book at Amazon…but I very well could have. “War and Peace” would have nothing on the size and weight of a book attempting to definitively answer the question: “What is cloud computing?”
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If you write, William Zinsser’s book is your bible
Writing is a big part of what I do as a PR professional. I read William Zinsser’s “On Writing Well” in college and re-read it every year to keep my writing as sharp and tight as possible. If you write you owe it to yourself to pick up this book.
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Hard work + can-do attitude = success
Early in my career as a young PR pro, I did publicity for The Horatio Alger Association. This story of the St. Louis-based Roberts brothers is a good example of what can happen when you pull yourself up by your bootstraps:
Two brothers, no fears and $1 billion empire (via CNN.com)
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The Outer Banks 2009
Highlights from our trip to OBX in North Carolina in August 2009:
- Warm Atlantic water
- Enough sun to justify SPF50 each day
- Great location, house and travel companions
- A 20-mile bike ride south on NC Hwy 12 over the Oregon Inlet bridge into Hatteras
- The biggest, most mouth-wateringly delicious and tender filet ever to grace a knife and fork at Avon Cafe
- Pulled pork at the original Duck Deli (as good as its newer sister restaurant in Doylestown, PA)
- Fishing with the kids at dusk
- Building an indoor miniature golf course
- Hitting a table-length quarter shot at the buzzer
- Driving on the beach
- Trying to fly a 35-foot-long kite at Jockey’s Ridge park
Want to see more OBX 2009 vacation images? Click here.
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Me at the Open Source Oscars
@Roebot catches me trying to pilfer some cool ThinkGeek paraphernalia at the Sourceforge Community Choice Awards in San Jose last week.
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Your vote counts!
I’ve had the pleasure of working not only with the company that sponsors the Sourceforge Community Choice Awards, but currently work with one of the most impressive companies currently in the running for the 2009 contest.
That company is MindTouch. Using (and living) open source, MindTouch has built a powerhouse of a collaboration platform. The platform (like a wiki…if it were on the world’s most powerful steroids), sits at the foundation of a trio of collaborative network solutions MindTouch will roll-out in 2009. The first — MindTouch Collaborative Intranet — attacks the failure of today’s current crop of corporate intranets to deliver on their promise of improved collaboration. MindTouch’s charismatic CEO, Aaron Fulkerson, threw heat on the issue recently with his post on the future of collaborative networks.
All this is a lead-in to say that if you read this blog, you should vote for MindTouch in the 2009 Sourceforge Community Choice Awards. It’s the right thing to do. (And make sure you add the cool badge below to your site or blog).
* Yes, MindTouch is a client, but I’d have encouraged you to vote regardless. They are that good.
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2 x 20 = 40
Over the past couple of days I’ve managed to squeeze in two strong 20 mile rides on the backroads of Buckingham, Pa. Lots of hills and little traffic. Today, one of the local club riders latched onto my back tire for the last 4 miles of the ride (which upped the pace a bit). Here’s a look at the out-and-back route (click here to see the whole route):
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