Still time to vote for blogging

If you read a lot of Oracle blogs you can’t have missed the news that you get to vote for some of the sessions at Oracle Open World this year on Oracle Mix. There’s a lot of great sessions suggested and although I’m about to plug my own I would encourage you to check [...]

Twitter ate my hamster

I’m blogging in the style of twitter, for those of you in withdrawal due to it’s recent availability issues. Got to stick to 140 char limit
Confused by the title of this post? It refers to a headline in ‘The Sun’ (UK ‘Newspaper’) that is so famous in the UK it’s a popular phrase
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Connections improve productivity - Quelle Surprise

Thanks to Oracle nerd for this post, referencing an article on CIO magazine. Apparantly connected employees are more productive. I thought this was a no brainer, if I know a lot of people I can get help and advice from a lot of people, equally if I know a lot of stuff people [...]

Bloggers Block?

It’s nice to feel wanted and I’m pleased a few people have asked why no blog posts for a while from me.  Is it Bloggers block, have I lost interest, has somebody got to me?  None of the above - I’ve been really busy working and traveling, now I am in a hotel room and [...]

Why Product Development Should Blog - Part 2

In part 1 I talked about how a conversation on my blog took a frustrated customer with problems to a situation where they got sales to quote them for another Oracle product. Part 2 is a more personal branding issue.
Generating Consulting Opportunities
I contacted a reader of my blog who’d added some comments and [...]

Speaking Our Customers’ Language

Eddie Awad discussed an interesting oracle Press release in his blog and the reaction of the Wall Street Journal Tech Blog too it. Eddie mused that as he is not a network techie it doesn’t mean much to him, this is intentional. The pres release was made at a network industry conference and [...]

Why Product Development Should Blog - Part 1

I was talking with Jake about how my blog was going, I recounted some stories of great outcomes that had surprised me since I stepped into the blogosphere a few months ago. “Blog those” was his reply, he’s a very active blogger and has already blogged our conversation. This is part 1 in [...]

And General Ledger too

It’s been a busy week for me and I have a lot of homework to get through this weekend. I was asked to take on the General Ledger(GL) product ‘ownership’ in addition to Legal Entity and Intercompany.
I am a little uncomfortable calling myself owner of products, we use this to mean that the product [...]

Virgin Beta Experience

The other weekend I flew back from Las Vegas to San Francisco on Virgin America, there has been no end of hype about their new planes and the software so I was interested to what it was all about. It all runs on a linux box hidden in the belly of the plane, [...]

Do I need a new TV?

I was in Las Vegas (by coincidence) at the same time as The Consumer Electronics Show (CES), this is a huge conference with over 150,000 attending (compare with around 40,000 that overwhelm San Francisco for Oracle Open World) so I did meet a few people attending it. In my far from scientific survey, based on [...]