I was, uh, poolside, plugged in with my laptop and blackberry, on the tail end of a visit to the Southwest. Read about it in the GlobeTechnology site. Hmmm …. sorta makes me sound like a dwit? But the point I was trying to stress is despite the fact much of the Northeast was in the dark, countless number of web servers in the Northeast stayed up, which I think is a remarkable testament. [ link ]
Archives for 2003
Comments on my keynote to the Texas Statewide Telephone Cooperative, Inc.
Just received this message from the meeting planner who brought me in for a talk on the future of the telecom industry ….
“Thanks again for coming all of the way out to Lake Tahoe to share your insights with the TSTCI group at their Futures Retreat. Your presentation was rated very highly on the Speaker Evaluation section of the evaluation form. There was also a great comment I thought you would like that someone added:
“At first I thought Jim Carroll’s talk a little generic but began to realize it had the most effect.”
I thought of you yesterday when I was in the supermarket and saw an upside down bottle of salad dressing.”
Keynote for the Dynamic Meetings conference, San Antonio/Houston
I’ll be the opening keynote speaker, for this event which is “an educational experience to empower the professional meeting planner to launch their entire meeting preparation process to the next level.” San Antonio, TX, Sept. 19 and Houston, Sept. 26. Details at the Dynamic Meetings site. [ site ]
Should the Internet be used in a courtroom?
My August CAMagazine article is about the issue of whether the Internet should — and could — be used as an evidentiary tool in court. This is a significant trend and will become a major issue through the next decade.
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“Time for a CRM tune-up”
The article issue of Contact magazine features my article about why so many customer relationship management projects fail: — “By and large, those who got involved with CRM approached it as a technology project, not as a key business strategy …. technology is a very small part of the equation, CRM is really about a significant change to the corporate culture.”
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Innovation stagnation?
In preparing an outline for a talk to a group of PR professionals, I’m still thinking about what is really going on out there in corporate America. I caught some of my thoughts in my “aggressive indecision” article a few weeks back — but this morning, woke up with the phrase “innovation stagnation” in my head. I still think there are too many organizations who are complacent, spinning their wheels, not only unable to make decisions, but not even of a mindset that it is important to continue to try to move forward …..
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