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LinkLog: Big data: What’s Your Plan?

From Big Data – What is Your Plan? create a simple plan for how data, analytics, frontline tools, and people come together to create business value. The power of a plan is that it provides a common language allowing senior

Posted in Analytics, Big Data, Opportunities, Tools

Great Reads: Cyclical Tools

Every tool should nourish the things upon which it depends. We see this principle at varying levels in some of our tools today. I call them cyclical tools. The iPhone empowers the developer ecosystem that helps drive its adoption. A

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A Discussion on Personal Productivity Tools

It was an unusually small gathering (about 10) for kcommunity standards. As the conversation progressed more people joined us and we grew to 15. It was an unusual event too – the audience were the speakers. To me it was one of

Posted in Brainstorming, kcommunity, Tools

Ideas About Ideas

Do you have lots of ideas rattling around in your head? Do you mostly dismiss them? Or do you pick one and dwell  on it for a while? This is a subject we will come back to again in future

Posted in Ideas, Tools

LinkLog: Python and Data Handling

Pipes and Filters are a familiar pattern for people managing data. Its use has been popularized by Yahoo Pipes. I always wanted to get a programmable version of pipes and filters and felt that a mini language would help a

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Three Marketing Tools You Can Use

I mostly deal with startups and small and medium enterprises. No matter who you are, you can always use some help in marketing. So what are some of the marketing tools and services out there that are either free or

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Posted in Software, startups, Tools

Role of Blogging in Partner Development

In this article Gilmore, Shipwire’s VP for marketing and business development,  provides useful tips for partner development. At the end he touches upon the payoff of blogging: “We want to be a thought leader,” Gilmore says. “We want to be

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Posted in Blogging, Customer Development, Social Media, Tools

We Make Tools

A quote from Steve Jobs (source: Beahm, George (2011-10-19). I, Steve: Steve Jobs in His Own Words) We make tools for people. Tools to create, tools to communicate. The age we’re living in, these tools surprise you.… That’s why I

Posted in Quotes, Tools

Until a Thing Becomes Tangible…

Tangibility gets on the same page. Until a thing becomes tangible, multiple people can have radically divergent interpretations of the same conversation, ideas, and experiences. Tangibility brings people from all disciplines and backgrounds together around the same object, drawing, animation,

Posted in Ideas, Products, Sketch, Tools

My Ideal Twitter Client

Having used Twitter for a while, I am slowly reducing the amount of time I spend on Twitter clients. I feel some times that I am missing out on good stuff. I started thinking about an ideal Twitter client for

Posted in Ideas, Tools, twitter
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