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John Taschek

John Taschek

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SVP, Market Strategy @salesforce. Described by at least one person as a seething mass of enlightenment. Loves road trips. Has wanderlust of the mind. Works.

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By John Taschek on November 16, 2011

Not that long ago but in a place far away, I came to the conclusion that devices that purported to help people manage their days in fact made the problem worse. I was taking aim at everything from the Palm to the Franklin planner. The problem as I stated in my long lost archives of […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged do.com, heroku, Manymoon, salesforce.com

Number 9 Dreamforce

Number 9 Dreamforce

By John Taschek on August 31, 2011

For a Beatles’ fan and a fan particularly of John Lennon, the number 9 has an important meaning. It has enough meaning Lennon wrote a few songs referencing it, including Number 9 Dream. Perhaps I like Number 9 Dream because it seems to be, quite literally, calling my name on the background vocal track. But […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged @jtaschek, @zolierdos, #DF11, chatter, Cloud Computing, CloudAve, collaboration, conversations, delight, entropy, Facebook, iPad, John Lennon, Number 9 Dream, Radian6, salesforce.com, social contacts, taschek, Web/Tech, Weblogs

Cezanne's Apple

Cezanne’s Apple

By John Taschek on April 7, 2011

Cezanne wrote once “With an Apple, I will astonish Paris.” Cezanne at the time was a notoriously sophisticated and gifted walking set of contradictions. He loved everything he hated and hated everything he loved. He approached painting with scalpel-like precision but with a scalpel to canvas nonetheless. He wanted the world to bleed – and […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged android, apple, cezanne, chatter, Facebook, loic le meur, mobile, Salesforce Chatter, salesforce.com, seesmic, Twitter, Web/Tech

Shrinking Balls

Shrinking Balls

By John Taschek on February 10, 2011

In my last post, I wrote about the sentiment analysis of the Super Bowl and how brands are impacted by the real-time stream. That stream stimulates a Mean Girls phenomenon that causes people to be more passionate and start to bully as they become more popular. I know some analysts…

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged @jtaschek, analysts, bullying, chatter, Cloud Computing, cloudblog, Constellation, excel, Facebook, google, iPad/Apple, mean girls, microsoft, mobile, NetBase Solutions, platform, Ray Wang, real-time, salesforce.com, sentiment analysis, Shakespeare, Super Bowl, taschek, Twitter, Weblogs

The Real-Time Brand

The Real-Time Brand

By John Taschek on February 7, 2011

As I write this, it is kickoff time for the Super Bowl, an event that galvanizes people as much as Bill O’Reilly does on a day to day basis. The Super Bowl is a brand, and while millions watch it, millions refuse to watch it, and hundreds of thousands are forced to watch it because […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged apple, chatter, Cloud Computing, Facebook, green bay packers, MySpace, NetBase, packers, real-time, salesforce.com, scoble, scobleizer, steelers, Super Bowl, taschek

Organized Robbery

Organized Robbery

By John Taschek on January 24, 2011

We’re at a time of rebellion against maintenance fees, which now include the elements of insurance, extortion, declining systems, and of course refactoring all of which add to the costs of any implementation. Add that into the actual implementation itself, and one is left with whopping fees and eventually ineffective…

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged @stevegillmor, Cloud, Cloud Computing, CloudAve, Duncan Jones, Forrester, maintenance, maintenance fees, oracle, pricing, salesforce, salesforce.com, Web/Tech

Dreamforce: Decade of Inspiration

Dreamforce: Decade of Inspiration

By John Taschek on December 7, 2010

I was at the first Dreamforce. It was in a hotel — the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco and it attracted 500 people and perhaps another 200 employees — roughly 2/3 of the entire company. The big announcements were related to sales force automation, but the company also announced custom tabs and some nifty […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged benioff, chatter, Chatter Free, Cloud Computing, cloudblog, conferences, DCI, Dreamforce, Facebook, Marc Benioff, Moscone, salesforce, salesforce.com, Web/Tech, Weblogs, Westin | 1 Response

Does Twitter (Really) Make you Smarter?

Does Twitter (Really) Make you Smarter?

By John Taschek on November 29, 2010

When 95 percent of college students use social media tools, perhaps excessively, it seems almost impossible to isolate a study that tries to answer the question “does social media make you smarter.” This is an awkward and irrelevant question to ask and anyone who has been born since the industrial revolution but before Facebook was […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged chatter, Cloud, Cloud Computing, cloudblog, Dreamforce, Facebook, salesforce.com, smarter, stress, taschek, Twitter, Web/Tech, Weblogs

Software is Roadkill

Software is Roadkill

By John Taschek on November 24, 2010

The fastest way to become roadkill to venture capitalists is to become a software company. Software may not be inherently evil (it has created wealth for many people that is in proportion to the pain it has provided to many customers). Software and specifically on-premise enterprise software, however, is clearly…

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Appirio, Cloud, Cloud Computing, cloudblog, Defrag, Facebook, Longworth, oracle, SaaS, salesforce, salesforce.com, start ups, startups, taschek, vc, VC investment, Vishy, Web/Tech, Weblogs

An debate with the Doctor of Failure

An debate with the Doctor of Failure

By John Taschek on November 21, 2010

Failure happens. There are many issues and stakeholders in any technology implementation process and any of them adds complexity that can lead to failure. The question is how much technology, the DNA of the technology vendor, and other stakeholders contributes to the failure. Is it always a project management issue…

Posted in Business | Tagged Cloud, Cloud Computing, failure, IT Project Failures, Krigsman, salesforce.com, Social, taschek, Web/Tech, Weblogs | 1 Response

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