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 [...]

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 [...]

Why Product Development Should Blog - Part 3

I appreciate the shout out from Jake, I’d like to get more opinions on this from other bloggers, particularly my colleagues in Apps (Are you listening Joe, Anne, Puneet, Meg, Gretchen?). So in this edition I explain how blogging saves you time and makes you more productive in your day job. If [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Ora-Click is like Digg but better

I’m not a fan of digg, just doesn’t do anything for me, but Matt Topper has created something which I like the look of. Ora-Click is like a digg but specific to Oracle articles and has nice Oracle related categories that should help me get to aritcles in my interest areas fast. Check [...]

Is Oracle Cool Again?

I joined Oracle UK in 1997 when Oracle 8 was just out to a lot of buzz. I had written a College paper on Designer 2000, which in 1995 sounded futuristic; automatic code generation and reverse engineering of code was a hot topic around then. All in all it felt [...]

Mixed Messages

 The open social network Oracle Mix was launched at Oracle Open World and I’ll be watching closely to see what level of uptake it has from within and without Oracle. It could change the way we interact with our user community and how we both get input for product direction and disseminate product features, best [...]

Oracle Open World Nights

I live a few blocks from the Moscone in San Francisco I can hardly avoid it even if I wanted to, every bar and second rate resteruant (Yes you Chevy’s!) is packed out and you can’t get a taxi for love nor money. So I decided to blog not about what I did [...]