I find that a little odd that a vendor
at Lotusphere would be taking that particular angle as a blog entry to
promote their product. But looking at all their blog entries, I see
the same pattern. People are defecting from Notes, so come talk to
us about our mail product. Hmm...
I commented on that post as follows:
I'm not sure I fully understand your
approach to marketing your product. You continually post on how poorly
Notes is doing in the marketplace from your perspective, yet you want us
to talk with you on buying a product that works on Notes. If I'm
to buy your original premise, then why would I even want to listen to anything
you're trying to say? You're setting up an immediate objection in
the mind of the potential customer, and then you're trying to fight that
same objection.
Yes, IBM has a number of things to
work on. But I'm not convinced that your style of marketing will
do anything to get them any closer to the position you hope they achieve.
You may want to seriously rethink
this approach...
Comment out there... back to surfing...
re-open that tab... and comment is gone.
Gone? They're deleting comments
to manage a message at a social session? Like we have no other way
to interact with others?
Book Review - Learning to Play With a Lion's Testicles: Unexpected Gifts From the Animals of Africa by Melissa Haynes
Wed, May 15th 2013 8:45p Thomas Duff This book had me in tears, both by laughter
and emotional impact... Learning
to Play With a Lion's Testicles: Unexpected Gifts From the Animals of Africa
by Melissa Haynes. The title was enough to intrigue me into considering
it for reading and reviewing. It didn't take long before I knew it was
a great decision.
Haynes went to South Africa to volunteer
on a wild game reserve, seeking to find some perspective and purpose in
her life. What sounded like an adventure quickly turned in [read] Keywords:
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Book Review - Judaism For Dummies by Rabbi Ted Falcon PhD and David Blatner
Sun, May 12th 2013 7:40p Thomas Duff This was a book that I had put on my
library "to be read" list, but decided that getting it via Amazon
Vine was faster and better... Judaism
For Dummies by Rabbi Ted Falcon
PhD and David Blatner. I felt this was a *perfect* example of what Dummies
titles are good for... context on a complex topic, enough so that you know
where to go for more information. Toss in a fair amount of humor along
the way, and I had a great time reading this (while learning lots).
Contents:
Introduction [read] Keywords:
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Book Review - Tell No Lies by Julie Compton
Mon, May 6th 2013 8:40p Thomas Duff Tell
No Lies by Julie Compton is the
first of a series (two so far) of novels centered around District Attorney
Jack Hilliard and his fellow lawyer and one-time lover Jenny Dodson. That's
"one-time" as in "slept with her once", but it happened
at a time and under conditions that made the two of them front-page news.
Dodson was put on trial for murder, facing the death penalty. Hilliard
was her alibi, as the night of the murder was the night he visited her
house. He's convinced that [read] Keywords:
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Book Review - How Data Science Is Transforming Health Care by Tim O'Reilly, Mike Loukides, Julie Steele, and Colin Hill
Sun, Apr 28th 2013 2:24p Thomas Duff How
Data Science Is Transforming Health Care
by Tim O'Reilly, Mike Loukides, Julie Steele, and Colin Hill is not a large
book... in fact, it's only 26 pages. But it's a solid 26 pages that makes
the case for how health care can (and will) be transformed by the use of
massive and detailed data on patients and outcomes. Given that you can
download it for free on Amazon, there's no reason *not* to give it a read.
It's enough to shift your view of how health care technology can be much
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Book Review - Storm Kings: The Untold History of America's First Tornado Chasers by Lee Sandlin
Sat, Apr 27th 2013 10:09p Thomas Duff Tornados... powerful, fearful, unpredictable...
and a source of controversy over the years as people tried to figure out
what they are (or if they even existed). Lee Sandlin tells the story of
those who first tried to solve the puzzle in his book Storm
Kings: The Untold History of America's First Tornado Chasers.
I didn't enjoy this book as much as I thought I would, but it could well
be due to incorrect expectations rather than the fault of the content or
quality of the writing. I'll [read] Keywords: connections
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Book Review - Six Years by Harlan Coben
Tue, Apr 23rd 2013 6:06a Thomas Duff I picked up Harlan Coben's latest novel
Six
Years from the library a week
or so ago. I enjoy his books, and I was looking forward to a few days of
leisurely enjoyment. What I got instead was a book I had a hard time putting
down, as Coben kept me guessing right up to the end. Granted, I read a
lot and don't necessarily do a good job of being able to remember plots
and story lines of books I read even six months ago. Still, this is one
of the best non-Bolivar novels he's written.
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Book Review - Calculated In Death by J. D. Robb
Sat, Apr 13th 2013 8:49p Thomas Duff Yay... another J. D. Robb (aka Nora
Roberts) novel... Calculated
In Death. This time, Dallas is
tagged on a woman's death that looks to be a mugging gone bad. Her body
is found on the street at the base of a set of stairs leading up to a building
in the midst of remodeling. But Dallas and Peabody find evidence that she
was actually killed inside, and the street scene was staged as a diversion.
Further investigation reveals that in her job as an auditor, she had just
been given three new [read] Keywords:
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Book Review - Keep No Secrets by Julie Compton
Sat, Apr 13th 2013 3:20p Thomas Duff I've not read anything from Julie Compton
before, but the premise of her latest book Keep
No Secrets sounded like a interesting
novel. Since it's a sequel to Tell No Lies, I got that one from the library
intending to read that first before this one. But too many books and forgetfulness
found me starting Secrets first without remembering the sequence. No matter...
Once I got started, this was pretty much a "won't put it down"
story. I'll be starting Tell No Lies tonight. :)
St. [read] Keywords:
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Book Review - Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
Tue, Apr 9th 2013 1:17p Thomas Duff When it comes to motivating people on
the job, what is the most common approach? It's the carrot-and-stick. But
Daniel Pink makes a case that what science knows and business does are
two entirely different things. Drive:
The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
was an interesting read about how studies have shown that autonomy, mastery,
and purpose are the real drivers of motivation in today's world, and business
needs to shift their practices to account for this change.
Conten [read] Keywords: notes
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Book Review - The Racketeer by John Grisham
Sun, Apr 7th 2013 2:16p Thomas Duff I'm stepping back into the John Grisham
stream with his latest novel The
Racketeer. It's been a while since
I've read a Grisham novel, mostly because my enjoyment of his work seemed
to be on a good/bad/good/bad cycle. For whatever, The Racketeer caught
my eye when it was put into circulation at the library. Having finished
it this weekend, I'm more inclined to want to catch back up with his books.
The Racketeer was pretty good...
The storyline revolves around Malcolm
Bannister, [read] Keywords:
