#Maximpact Speakers on Twitter

11:30am - I am half way into the conference, and here are the speakers from this morning with links to their Twitter accounts:

Linda Kaplan Thaler - @lindathaler & @thepowerofsmall
John C. Maxwell - @johncmaxwell
Kevin Carroll - @kckatalyst
Irene (From Google) - @ireneau

.... More to come.

1:04pm - Afternoon session is starting.

Tony Blair - @tony_blair
Mark Sanborn - @mark_sanborn

Mobile Blogging from here.

Maximum Impact: Liz Murray

Liz Murray was the first speaker after the lunch break to speak about her rise from being homeless to going to Harvard graduating this June with honors. I have to admit that I wasn't ready for her very moving emotional tale of her childhood and the struggles with her drug addicted parents.

Here is a young woman pouring her heart out to 50,000 people explaining how she got through the struggles in her life and it put many things into perspective, but left me with one phrase:

Cherish Life!

Simple, buy powerful. Most of the things we worry about on a daily basis never compare to the pain Liz endured at an early age.

This was the best session of the day and the conference is still under way. The one thing I'm going to do is be greatful for what I have in my life and know that many people have it worse. Thanks Liz for putting things into perspective!

God bless!

UPDATE on 5/8/2009 - 5:46pm:

• I found a full transcript from @zspencer on twitter HERE - http://ow.ly/5R95
• She has a movie about her story available for rental on netflix.
• Visit her web site: Homeless to Harvard

I'm Going to the Maximum Impact Simulcast

I'll be taking my leadership team on May 8th for the Maximum Impact Simulcast. This is an opportunity to take my team and "recharge" our batteries and hear some great speakers on the subject of Leadership. The highlight for me is when my Favorite author takes the stage, John C. Maxwell. (Twitter)

2009 Speaker Lineup

Tony Blair
PRE-RECORDED SESSION
Former prime minister of the United Kingdom

Jack Nicklaus
PRE-RECORDED SESSION
Winner of a record 18 major golf championships and voted Sports Illustrated's Individual Male Athlete of the Century

Bill George
Harvard business professor, former Medtronic CEO and author of True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership

John C. Maxwell
Best-selling author, speaker and leadership thought leader

Al Weiss
President of Worldwide Operations for Walt Disney Parks and Resorts

Liz Murray
Inspirational speaker, "Homeless to Harvard"

Linda Kaplan Thaler
CEO & Chief Creative Officer of the Kaplan Thaler Group and author of The Power of Nice

Mark Sanborn
Best-selling author of The Fred Factor and president of Sanborn & Associates, Inc.

Kevin Carroll
Highly-acclaimed author, founder of Kevin Carroll Katalyst/LLC and former Nike creative

Ernie Johnson
Professional sports announcer and host of TNT's Emmy award-winning Inside the NBA

Gartner: Pocket Power: The Annual Update on Mobile Devices

I'm in my first session about mobile devices and supporting them in the enterprise.  These charts says it all:

O'Reilly Radar: Web 2.0 Conference Thoughts

This is one conference I tried to attend this year, but overlapped with the Portal, Collaboration, and Content Conference. Plus, I think this was INVITE only.

Web 2.0 Conference Thoughts
By Brady Forrest on November 15, 2006

On Friday, the Radar team got together to discuss the Web 2.0 Summit. Here were some of our thoughts:

We saw lots of features rather than products: There were fewer full company launches and more features being added. Is this a sign of the market being more mature or that more companies are hoping for an acquisition rather than an IPO?

Commercial penetration is chasing users away: It was noted that MySpace's traffic was down from the previous month. We're wondering if this is a sign of users running away from monetization. Will there be a continuous migration of users away from properties as they try to capitalize on their success?

We see increasing intersection of the physical world with internet sevices. This came up in 3 places. Fedex, Salesforce, and Amazon. Jeff Bezos pointed out that not only Amazon's servers but also their logistics infrastructure is for rent, with Fulfillment by Amazon. (Tim promptly christened this service S4 - Simple Storage Service for Stuff).

User's data: This was also a recurring theme starting with Wesabe's Marc Hedlund's Open Data Workshop. We heard about it again from Google's Eric Schmidt when he said that he supported user's being able to take their data with them. SixApart put forward the Open Media Profile (think GData, + OpenSearch + Media RSS) to allow users transport their data between services. These will continue.

The entrepenaurs were in the hallways: We noticed and we heard that a lot of action was in the hallways (and a conference room). We're going to work on that for next year. We'd like to have more of them in the room with the rest of the conference.

Teen panels get people out of their world: The teen panel was regarded by many as the most refreshing piece of the conference. We get trapped in our blog-nonMySpace world. It's good to get that wake-up call every so often. The panel loved Google, MySpace, YouTube and didn't seem to care which browser they used. No other properties made a noticeable dent across all of the panelists.

There was a similar wake-up call at Widgets Live earlier in the week. Photobucket asked how many users were in the room compared to Flickr; the crowd was overwhelmingly Flickred unlike the rest of the internet. It's good to remember that the success of these companies is not entirely dependent on their geek chic cred.

Great, summarized quotes:
"Users want speed" - Marissa Mayer

"Don't listen to investment bankers" - Bob Parsons Interesting developments:
intel's Suite Two - bringing blogs, wikis and RSS to the enterprise 6A's Open Media Profile- being able to share my data between services is something that I have wanted for ages.

Digg's visualizations - will any of these come close to replacing the homepage?

The Stikkit (clever stickie notes from our own Rael Dornfest), Klostu (social network and ID system for message boards), and Adify (an ad platform for ad networks) launches were the most notable in our book.

Live Labs' Photosynth - just a viewer right now, but it holds amazing potenial for organizing and viewing photos

Interesting coverage

Evhead on Barry Diller's talk
Greg Linden
Read/Write Web
Gigaom
John Battelle on Eric Schmidt

Pictures from the Conference In Boston

USS Cassin Young (DD-793), World War II Destroyer

Outside my room at the Intercontinental

Portal, Collaboration, Content Conference Notes

I'm at the Portal, Collaboration, Content Conference in Boston MA. I'll be providing links to the PDF files for the team to review:

Day 1 - Wednesday 11/08/2006

• Keynote Speaker: PDF: Colin White My Notes: Erik Manassy
• Intranet 2.0: PDF: Gilroy My Notes: Erik Manassy Updated Slides on Flickr
• Collaboration in the age of the Enterprise Workplace: Quirk My Notes: Erik Manassy
• Search and Search Analytics: Shell My Notes: Erik Manassy

Day 2 - Thursday 11/09/2006

• The Use of Organized Network Analysis in Portal and CM Projects: Connecting People and Content: Seth Earley My Notes: Erik Manassy
• Shared Insights 6th Annual Portal Excellent Awards Ceremony
• Keynote Panel: Understanding the Technologies and Products.
• VERY GOOD - Connecting a Portal to Enterprise Applications: Colin White My Notes: Erik Manassy
• SOA for the Real World: Dale Tuttle My Notes: Erik Manassy

Day 3 - Friday 11/10/2006

• VERY GOOD - Portal Governance: Designing, Implementing and Evolving Your Knowledge Management Systems: Zach Wahl My Notes: Erik Manassy
• From Marketing to Operations: How an ECM Delivers Results Across the Enterprise - Kristen Yeradi My Notes: Erik Manassy
• Using Workflow to Suport Buiness Processes - Colin White My Notes: Erik Manassy

Gartner Symposium ITxPo 2006 in Orlando

I arrived in Orlando on Sunday. Planning to start with the following sessions tomorrow:

• Web 2.0 Beyond the Buzz: What's Real, What's Not
• Software as a Service: The Myth and Promise of No Software

I'll post more during the day.

Waiting...

Well, I'm waiting in the airport currently in Orlando. I'm pretty tired and hope to sleep on the plane. My flight leaves at 9.

Day 3 over...

Well the conference is over for me, and I'll be flying back tommorrow.

Ballmer on services, twitch cycles, AJAX, Google and innovation

Steve Ballmer cleared some of the fog around how Microsoft plans to innovate in services and iterate at Web speed (compete with Google and others treading on his company’s turf) during an interview at Gartner’s Symposium ITxpo with analysts Tim Bittman and Dave Cearley.

You can listen to a podcast from ZDNet's The Dan and David Show.

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Update at the Conference - Wednesday

Sessions I went to already:

Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2006 [VERY GOOD]

The Impact of IT on Business Risk [Informative]

Up next: Steve Ballmer, CEO Microsoft.

I'm actually in the lead room that is close to the stage so I'll be up and close for the keynote.

Hanging with Friends and Family at Sea World

Saw the Shamu show today with my friend Eric in the show. We got to pet the killer whales afterwards. I'm holding my nephew, Antonio.

2nd Day over...

Another busy day, and my second day is over. I'm here one more day and will hear Microsoft's CEO speak tomorrow. Mark Hurd CEO of HP was pretty good.

Click here for a review.

2nd day for me Begins

I'm in the 8am session now: The Second Internet Revolution Begins.

Speaker at this Morning's Keynote Speach

Live from Orlando: The Gartner Symposium - Allen Weiner spoke and shot video on stage at the conference. He states he will post it online.

Call it a Day

Sessions are over for me. It was a full day and my feet are killing me. You do a lot of walking between sessions.

I'm going to think where I want to eat tonight and review the list for sessions tomorrow.

Gartner: Stop outsourcing now

I sat throught this session as well.

Gartner: Stop outsourcing now
Posted by Dan Farber @ 10:03 am
Gartner analyst Linda Cohen started off her presentation at Symposium ITxpo with a command for the audience of 6,000 attendees: "You have to stop outsourcing now." She said that the chaos created by compulsive outsourcing is making it harder to produce results. Her point is that too many companies have taken outsourcing to an extreme, heading offshore because it's faddish, juggling multiple contracts with incompetence and lacking sufficient governance discipline. Cohen and Allie Young just published a book on the subject, "Multisourcing: Moving beyond Outsourcing to Achieve Growth and Agility," (HPS Press, 2005). The book promotes an approach to outsourcing, which they call multisourcing, that is based on continuous evaluation of sourcing relationships for effectiveness and efficiency. "Buyers behave as if outsourcer and contractors are responsible for delivering the outcome. Organizations don’t budget and plan adequately for managing outsourcing," Cohen said.
They call multisourcing a "new terrain" for outsourcing, but it's more accurately a rational, common sense terrain. The books lists eight pervasive myths of outsourcing today.

BUY THE BOOK



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LINK: ZDNET - Gartner Symposium ITxpo: A quest for rapid results

Article on the session I attended this morning.

Lunch Break

I am just impressed with how many people the food tents can accomodate. They have a great system to get your food, sit down, eat and leave within 20 mintues. BTW, food was pretty good. I'm back in my room during the break, chillin out.

I will be looking to see what I want to check out in the afternoon sessoins online.

Later.