I need to take a break from anything related, even remotely, to EMC World. I had a conversation with an old friend yesterday. He was thinking of starting a blog, or two, and asked for some advice. I thought I would share that advice with everyone else.
Month: May 2008
Will the Real Mark Lewis Please Step Forward
I was reading the recent article by Alan Pelz-Sharpe over at CMS Watch titled High Stakes for Documentum. It makes a lot of interesting points regarding this year’s EMC World from the perspective of an outsider. I don’t want to discuss the conference any here, you can read all of my posts for my thoughts. I do want to address the comments from Alan in his article regarding Mark Lewis.
Sailing with EMC’s Magellan
I’ve been debating on whether to talk about Magellan or SharePoint next. It was a heck of a decision, but I quickly resolved it when I decided to do both. I pulled out my notes, did a little research, and remembered the disclaimer. This is unreleased software. Things may change before the Magellan Beta, much less the final release.
Shall we set sail…
The Rumors of My Promotion are Greatly Exaggerated
I was just relaxing with my first cup of coffee, reading the morning news and blogs, when I stumbled across this post by James saying that Laurence Hart will be the lead of a new standards body focused on ECM. The quick answer is that it is not true. James heard it through the grapevine, so let me list some facts that could easily lead to this fact occurring. Note that I met a colleague of James at the conference and we talked about everything below.
New EMC World Page
I recently realized that I have over 20 posts so far for EMC World 2008. I was also noticing that many of my “older” posts were getting hits that seemed counter-intuitive to the topic in question. With the number of posts still growing, I wanted to put a simple page in place for people to find all my posts on EMC World for 2008, 2007, and all future iterations.
You can either click on the link in this post or you can look up at the header and click on the page link there.
Hot Topics from EMC World 2008: CMA Edition
Now that I’ve gotten the “rant” out of me regarding on how EMC World needs to improve, not to mention all of that coffee, let’s start hitting the positives. I will dive into more details on most of these, but I wanted to share something besides random thoughts in the middle of my notes. So, off we go, in no particular order.
Magellan
A Year in the Life of Pie
As I sit here in the plane, flying back home from Vegas and the chaotic, fun, learning experience that is EMC World, I am taking a moment to reflect on the last year. It was one year ago that I started this blog. I was sitting in Orlando waiting for my flight and I wanted to share my thoughts on EMC World. A year later, I found myself blogging my way through the conference. I don’t want to talk about conferences right now though. I just want to reflect on my first year in the blogsphere.
Word By the Numbers
I don’t care about the numbers much. I care about the message. All the numbers do is tell me if you, the reader, care about the message. They can be fun to look at though.
- 53,000+ Hits
- 700 on my best day, May 22, 2008
- 2,800+, and growing, on my best week, this week.
- 3,000+ hits on my most popular post
- 220+ hits on the topic I care about the most
A Brief History of the Word
It started simple enough, discussions about new features of D6. I started anonymously so that if I got bored, nobody would know. I didn’t get bored. My posts attracted the interest of James and over the course of a few weeks, I got a crash course in public discourse over the blogsphere, and a more diverse audience than I ever expected. The conversation expanded to included others and then it went a little downhill.
Thoughts on EMC World 2008 and the ECM Professional
I’m sitting next to Marko and thinking about EMC World this year and trying to get my thoughts down as to how this year rated. I’m not going to be talking about what I learned in this post, but more on the conference itself. Marko had a couple of posts and I think they are a great starting point for the discussion. After you have read them, read on.
Sense of Perspective
I’ve been to every US Documentum user conference since 2000 and I’ve seen a lot of changes over time. I remember the exhibition being setup for the whole conference with almost no traffic (better now). I remember motorcycles zooming in to the stage at the keynote (fun, energetic, suffocating). I remember walking down Bourbon Street and having a great time as if it was just an extension of the conference (a great sense of community).
Some things have improved. One thing that hasn’t is that sense of fun and community. It was easier to find Documentum folks on Bourbon Street in 2003 than it is at time at EMC World. In 2006, there were over 2000 attendees at the last Momentum in Anaheim (thrown together on the quick) and more than 2500 the year before in Vegas. This year, the number given was 1500+ out of 9300+ attendees. It makes it hard to find people that have similar interest unless you already know them. You can find those people at sessions, but the sessions aren’t that well grouped together. The decrease in CMA attendance speaks volumes.
EMC World 2008: Best Practices for Designing and Deploying an Enterprise Document Capture Solution
Decided that instead of hearing about how an ECM system can make a social computing system more robust, that I would listen to Sean Baird tell me something that might help me do my job as a consultant on a daily basis. As cool as Enterprise 2.0 is, scanning is still important for organizations on a day-to-day basis.
EMC World 2008: Social Computing Meets R&D
Been reading Chuck’s blog on EMC’s Journey in Social Media for a while. Burt Kaliski is going to share a little about those efforts internally. I thought it might make a nice insight into how some of this Enterprise 2.0 stuff is actually working. Meanwhile, it looks like the EMC Developer Network is recording the presentation, so keep an eye out for that later.
Word of Pie 