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Images of Groceries in Hemanus South Africa - Here is part two of my grocery pictures in the Cape Town South Africa area. I always check out the local stores when I go to a new place. This is in Hermanus on the south coast near Cape Town.

Images of Groceries in Cape Town South Africa - I recently ran a long series of images form my trip to Cape Town South Africa in early December 2010. This weekend I will offer two more posts. I always enjoy going to grocery stores whenever I travel. Here are...

AIIM Provides Useful Social Business Roadmap - AIIM has provided a useful service with their Social Business Roadmap. As their site states the roadmap is, “a tool to help organizations effectively develop social business processes and to help identify and address potential issues before they become real...

OutStart’s Participate Enables the Social Side of Enterprise Work Processes - Founded in 1999, OutStart offers an portfolio of inter-related mobile, social, and learning Knowledge Solutions intended to accelerate and broaden access to colleagues and the knowledge they need to respond to business requirements more quickly and make better informed decisions.....

Moving to a Multi-Vendor Approach to Handling Today’s More Complex Content Management Requirements. - Here is an interesting report I received from Forrester, Plan your ECM Strategy For Business, Persuasive, Transactional, And Foundational Needs by Stephen Powers and Alan Weintraub with Matthew Brown and Anjali Yakkundi. They note that enterprises are now struggling under...

Measuring Economic Impact of Using Cloud-Based Services: Google Apps - This post picks up on the theme from yesterday's post. In May 2010, Google commissioned Forrester to examine the total economic impact and expected return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by switching from legacy email and productivity solutions to...

My Favorite Tweets for April 1 - 14 2011 - Here is another in a series of posts that provide access to my favorite tweets that contain links to useful information. Some of these I did to link to things I found useful and others are RTs that I want...

Painting of Prawns and Chips - work in progress - It has been a while since I have had time to complete a painting. So here is the one I am working on. It is an order of prawns and chips (fries) at a wonderful seaside restaurant in Hermanus, South...

Paul Tamburello Does New Orleans - My friend Paul Tamburello writes the great blog PT at Large about his experiences in travel as well as the local art scene in the Boston area. He does a huge amount of posting on my home town New Orleans...

Forrester: Enterprise Search is Maturing and Becoming More Social - Yesterday I wrote about social search and the Web. Forrester has provided an interesting new report, Enterprise Search: Six Key Trends to Watch by Leslie Owens with Stephen Powers and Anjali Yakkundi, and social is more positive here. Enterprise search...

How Will Social Search Impact Web Search and Help Find Good Content? - Over ten years ago Google added a new and transformative dimension to search with its page rank concept. Let the readers help determine what content has the highest value and also look at currency, along with relevance This has become...

Using Semantic Technology and Machine Learning for Consumer Advice: Retrevo - With all the publicity over IBM’s Watson, there has been a lot of discussion about how far computers can go to “replace” people. Of course, I think that is not really the question to ask. It should rather be conceived...

Our Webinar Recording: Human Side of Content Monitoring - The recording of our webinar, The Human Side of Content Monitoring, is now available. You see the presentation and hear the narration by Thierry and myself, as well as our answers to questions from the audience. Here is the description...

Blogging is Still a Good Complement for Your Small Business Web Site - Here is useful data from a recent study of over 1,500 HubSpot customers (mostly small- and medium-sized businesses). 795 of the businesses in my sample blogged, 736 didn't. It clearly demonstrated that companies with a blog have far better marketing...

Great Blog Series on Music and Fun Southwest Louisiana - My friend Paul Tamburello writes the great blog PT at Large about his experiences in travel as well as the local art scene in the Boston area. He has recently been covering one of my favorite places in the world....

Revised Painting of Red Room Dreams - I was pleased to recently sell the 24" x 30" painting below through my art and photography blog. Most of the other works are still available. The person who purchased made a suggestion that I place the head that was...

Tech Reporters Losing Control of the Story to Social Media - The Neiman Journalism Lab had an interesting story by Tim Carmody recently on “Journalists have lost control of the story”: Twitter, tech bubbles, and the nostalgia of the technology press. It discussed how the “accelerated news cycle of blogs, Twitter,...

Crocodoc Makes It Easier to Work with Online Documents - Here is a useful tool. To help us better work with online documents Crocodoc provides an HTML5 document viewing and collaboration tool that operates out of the cloud. The new viewer can be embedded into existing web offerings and provides...

My New Role within OutStart’s Social Media Efforts - I am very pleased to announce a new addition to the roles I currently support. I am now helping OutStart with their blog and Twitter efforts as OutStart’s Director, Social Media. OutStart offers an integrated suite of Knowledge Solutions that...

Forrester: Mobile Apps Will Change the IT Market and Drive Software Innovation - Forrester has issued a new report, Mobile App Internet Recasts The Software And Services Landscape: App Innovation On Phones Will Spread To Cars, Appliances And Entertainment by John C. McCarthy. It notes that while the explosion of app innovation started...