Skype

Progressive Practices: Riley and its use of online services

August 9, 2010 Innovation

Following on my riff to Richard Messik’s piece about Riley Chartered Accountants, I had a Skype video conversation with Jon Stacey, senior partner at the 20 person firm. It turns out Jon is one of only two men working at the firm. That is a complete 180 degree turn from when he joined the practice [...]

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Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn?

August 2, 2010 General

I learn more about the real world from my children and grand children than anyone else. Last week while in the UK I saw first hand how quickly young people adapt to the new breed of technology. It took our no.2 grand daughter less than 30 seconds to figure out the iPad and about the [...]

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Rebtel to the rescue?

June 7, 2010 General

Anyone following the shenanigans I’ve had with Vodafone will probably know by now that I finally managed to sort out the accounting issue earlier today. An entire morning of my life wasted with more calls. One of 48 mins that went nowhere other than to confirm I owed the princely sum of €88. The second [...]

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Do you ooVoo?

March 17, 2010 General

ooVoo is a service not wholly dis-similar to Skype. I’ve used it on occasion for multi-way video conferencing calls. Like most services of its kind, performance is wholly dependent on the quality of the broadband connection between the parties on the call. Video sucks bandwidth like crazy so that pretty much rules out video calls [...]

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Could broadband availability kill your cloud aspirations?

May 22, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Over the last few days I’ve been in conversation with practitioners suggesting to them that saas/on-demand/cloud computing offers a viable and valuable alternative to existing methods of reactive response in the current economic climate. I’m not selling anything but I am trying to gauge reactions. It never occurred to me that broadband availability might be [...]

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The future of events

February 5, 2009 General

Yesterday I ran a thought experiment that turned out to be surprisingly successful. SAP was launching BusinessSuite 7 and had invited some of my colleagues to attend its New York offices. Due to budget restrictions, they couldn’t ship some of us over. That didn’t matter too much because they live webcast the event. At the [...]

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How to market for almost zero cost

October 3, 2008 General

I think this post is really useful so I’ve lifted my own copy from IT Counts: I’m using this Friday to demonstrate another video service: Blip.tv, this time in a marketing context rather than as an information delivery tool. Like Kyte.tv, Blip uses the concept of channels where you create or upload material. It also [...]

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Collaboration works when community thrives

August 26, 2008 General

Right now I’m gearing up for TechEd and DemoJam. This is a technical conference where I am on a couple of panels. Who would have thought that a suit (and a bean counter by trade at that!) would qualify let alone turn up for for geek gig. I’ve been before but this is a special [...]

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