Recently, a client asked me for some tips about how to get the maximum mileage out of Twitter event hashtags. Creating Twitter hashtags for your business events is a great way to multiply conversations about what you’re doing, and there are...

Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff is a great visionary with a big appetite for change. From packaged software to the cloud, from CRM to platform-as-a-service, he’s painted a color by number picture for businesses to emulate. But does his...

This year, Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce event – with a record-setting 45,000 attendees – got me thinking about the early days before the cloud was the cloud, how far its come, and how perfectly poised it is to ride the waves now...

Last week, at Dreamforce 2011 , Dell announced Dell Cloud Business Applications, a new integrated, single sign-on approach to business solutions aimed at small and medium businesses (SMBs) with 50 to 500 employees. In the first release, Dell Cloud...

As the name implies, SAP TechEd offers technical education, such as hands-on workshops, deep-dive lectures and sessions with SAP technical experts, about all things SAP. That said, TechEd isn’t for everyone, and it’s no wonder that most...