Holtz Communications + Technology

Since Neville and I recorded the podcast live from the trade show area of the conference yesterday afternoon, I wasn’t able to blog any other sessions. Today I’m not working at all, so I hope to blog every session I attend, starting with…

Charlene Li from Forrester is the keynote this morning.

Introduction

• Successful social computing requires ceding control to build the relationship. Customers won’t put up…

Debbie Weil is moderating a two-person panel: Jeremiah Owyang, global web manager for Hitachi Data Systems and Paul Rosenfeld, general manager of Intuit’s Quickbooks online edition.

Weil has created a Squidoo lens related to the session. She guided the panel based on issues, which follow:

Fear of blogging

Paul:

• Starting blogging to address fear customers had of doing accounting on the web. “We’re human and we really care…

Note: This is the first in what I hope will be a series of posts contributed live from the New Communications Forum in Palo Alto, California.

Along with nearly 200 others, I’m listening to Rebecca Blood deliver the opening keynote at the New Communications Forum. She’s addressing the notion of “distributed” or “open source” journalism via blogs, which promote incrementalism: As authors and commenters add to a story, the…

Robert Scoble points out that there’s more to a network of employee bloggers than policies governing what they can and cannot say.

Over the weekend, a storm erupted online over the impending release of a new Microsoft product code-named Origami (apparently a tablet-like device for multimedia use). The term “origami” made Technorati’s top five searches and top five “hot tags.” Microsoft’s marketing team, however, kept the army…

The minor overhaul to this blog began with an Eastern European bot hammering my server. Neville was the first to point out that my blog was returning that damned SQL error, which means so many connections were being opened and kept open that the blog was essentially offline, along with any other sites that linked to SQL databases.

My tech savior,

Neville Hobson, my podcasting co-host, has completed his move from his blog of the last couple years—Nevon—and taken up residence at NevilleHobson.com.

The new blog represents the earliest signs of a trend that I like. The first time I saw it was when Allan Jenkins redesigned Desirable Roasted Coffee. The result was a blog that looks more like a website, an admirable…