I just returned from a conference about a hot enterprise technology where I used my iPad to soak up notes, images, video interviews and BROLL, and organize them for future use. I will use the n...
http://techspectator.blogspot.com/2012/08/ipad-for-on-go-writer.html
This cartoon speaks to why I’ve begun blogging again. It goes like this, when you blog about a completed project have to encapsulate it, describe it, explain it, and learn from it. ...
http://techspectator.blogspot.com/2012/07/this-cartoon-speaks-to-why-ive-begun.html
As the script writer for several 11gR2 vignettes, I have been thinking about what we have done right so far and what we can improve. Here are my top five thoughts: 1. Remember that people watc...
http://techspectator.blogspot.com/2009/07/what-ive-learned-from-scripting.html
Pick up Winifred Gallagher’s new book “Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life ”, and you’ll find arguments to support the “tech vignettes” we’ve been filming for Release 2 of Oracl...
http://techspectator.blogspot.com/2009/07/come-in-relax-enjoy-little-implicit.html
If you see me at a user group conference pondering the conference guide, don’t think I’m looking for my session. What I’m looking for are the people who attend and teach sessions. Watch o...
http://techspectator.blogspot.com/2009/07/interloper-at-odtug.html
Oracle has better things to do with its money than send me to Milwaukee for a single interview. And yet I still have to get the story, AND the video. So Todd Sheetz of IOUG’s Linux SIG , was ki...
http://techspectator.blogspot.com/2009/06/experimental-skype-interview-with-linux.html
I wanted to expand on Tom Kyte’s short post about SLACK, which takes its cue from this post by Seth Godin. My addition to Tom’s advice is this: If you find yourself suddenly with extra tim...
http://techspectator.blogspot.com/2009/05/gift-of-slack.html
It’s been instructive to observe our progress as a creative group at Oracle as we strive to integrate our video department into the creative work process. For the first time we are producing v...
http://techspectator.blogspot.com/2009/05/more-apex-fun-or-can-we-meld-creative.html
Watching this interview with Mike Riley of ODTUG reminds me of how proud he is of his user group’s annual conference, Kaleidoscope . He knows people get a lot out of attending, and he convince...
http://techspectator.blogspot.com/2009/04/looking-forward-to-kaleidoscope.html
Corporations are beginning to wrap their heads around Web video. Here are my quick impressions from a Web video leadership breakfast last Thursday morning. It was attended mostly by large Bay Are...
http://techspectator.blogspot.com/2009/04/my-video-breakfast-takeaway-work-with.html
I ran into David Peake several months back at a small OTN event and we had the following conversation while waiting for an elevator: David: I have a cool new release coming up but not enough d...
http://techspectator.blogspot.com/2009/03/video-fun-with-oracle-apex-32.html
The most important thing to take from Bob McKee’s story seminar is not a set of techniques, but an understanding of motivations. Why do people do what they do and how do they react when thin...
http://techspectator.blogspot.com/2009/03/la-story-being-vs-doing-at-oracle.html
My interview with Dan Vlamis, of the BIWA SIG , is missing some key points. Neither the video nor the Oracle Magazine column talk about his degree in technology from Brown or the fact that he to...
http://techspectator.blogspot.com/2009/02/salute-to-dan-vlamis-college-girlfriend.html
While watching this eight-minute talk by John Cacioppo on economics and social behavior I couldn’t help think of the Oracle user groups I’ve come to know in the past year. “Bringing e...
http://techspectator.blogspot.com/2009/02/coming-to-playful-decision.html
Last week I met Ronan Miles of the powerhouse UK Oracle User Group (UKOUG ). Just look at their event list . I put a simple questions to him: Why be part of a user group?
http://techspectator.blogspot.com/2009/01/what-good-are-tech-user-groups.html
Just interviewed Mike Riley of the Oracle Development Tools User Group (ODTUG). He’s in town for the IOUC conference . He didn’t say this on tape, but in the car back to his hotel he said...
http://techspectator.blogspot.com/2009/01/lesson-and-new-goal-for-2009.html
I just came across Seth Godin’s admonition on goal setting . I agree with him; goals are how we can make sure the work we do every day is taking us someplace we want to go. Upon quick reflectio...
http://techspectator.blogspot.com/2009/01/goals-for-2009.html
I met with Steve Lemme of the IOUG for a story on user groups in Oracle Magazine, but the written story died during the editorial process. However I taped the interview for my Up Close series a...
http://techspectator.blogspot.com/2008/12/user-group-leadership-path-to-success.html
“We’re living in the shadow of architectural decisions that were made decades ago... but all these architectural restraints have gone away...” -- Terry Jones of Fluid Info . When Scoble ...
http://techspectator.blogspot.com/2008/12/world-changing-database.html
Jeanne Harris, co-author of Competing on Analytics knocked me out with her keynote address at the Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, and Analytics (BIWA) Summit this week at the Oracle Con...
http://techspectator.blogspot.com/2008/12/harris-shines-in-biwa-keynote.html
I stopped by Ted Farrell's keynote at Oracle Develop 2008 and heard him give an overview of Oracle's "go forward" dev tools strategy in the wake of the influx of great technology from BEA. Below ...
http://techspectator.blogspot.com/2008/10/map-for-post-bea-era.html
If you look at the people that make it to Oracle ACE status, they aren’t just good at technology they are also comfortable speaking and writing about what they do. (I know because I’ve interv...
http://techspectator.blogspot.com/2008/10/speak-write-win.html
For the past three months, I and a small group of people in the creative department at Oracle have been working in secret on the HP Oracle Database Machine that Larry just announced in his O...
http://techspectator.blogspot.com/2008/09/exadata-it-really-works.html
A friend of mine is a magazine illustrator and when the editors want to publish his profile he often just jots down what he's eaten that day and maybe something about where he's been and sends...
http://techspectator.blogspot.com/2008/09/mix-profile-ode-to-guss.html
Yesterday a friend who is starting an Oracle blog emailed me her first post. I won’t share it here, but it a was well-written piece of marketing copy about an industry analyst report. Here�...
http://techspectator.blogspot.com/2008/08/its-hard-to-break-marketing-mold.html