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Sundays in the sun..

Published April 22, 2007 Uncategorized 1 Comment
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I arrived this morning (Sunday) to Madrid, Spain for 5 days -professional course and some business meetings. Since it’s Sunday, and I’m used to working on a Sunday (Jewish after all), it was a good change of climate to take Sunday off. And speaking of climate, the weather in Madrid is excellent. Just like Tel Aviv. Temp was about 24C-26C, sun was high up in the sky, and the streets were filled with people. In recent trips I usually arrive on a weekday, so spending 3/4 of a Sunday strolling the city is not bad.
Lots of people came to Plaza Mayor, sitting at the cafes, at the plaza itself, going through to other places (like me). Fun.

I took the time today for some walking. It’s my 2nd visit to Madrid, and last time I had a full day for myself, so I already checked most of the main attractions. Every time I visit a European city I can’t understand how Tel Aviv doesn’t have a Metro/Subway. It’s superb. Especially for tourists, but not only. It’s definitely cheaper than a taxi.
I decided to visit the Museo del Prado (Prado Museum) again, since last time I had only 4-5 hours, and it wasn’t enough. This time around there was an exhibition of Tintoretto, and the crowd came in numbers to see (on the left).

On another subject, which symbolizes plenty opportunities for start-ups – the Environment, or Global Warming. Today, April 22nd, is Earth Day, according to the Earth Day Network. Even Google created a nice logo for the occasion. If you haven’t RSS-ed to some Earth Friendly feeds, now is the time. You can start with Lighter Footsteps, which also prepared this top 10 list of things you can do towards a lighter, more sustainable, lifestyle. Even industry giants, such as IBM, are seeing the potential in ‘greener’ initiatives and projects, like in this recent Intelligent Energy insight, or Turning Green with Ingenuity. You can read more about IBM’s commitment to the planet here.

And closing this post with this: apparently this cute Bulldog walked some extra miles, since he lied on the curve, legs spread, colling himself down.. the big dog is watching…

My small contribution to Big Blue

Published April 21, 2007 Uncategorized 1 Comment
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IBM just released its results for the 1Q, ending March 31st. There’s also an English version.
I would like to comment on how I feel I contribute to that awesome figure of $22,000,000,000 of revenue in 3 months time.

Currently I lead the local IBM Forum Center team, part of marketing & communication dept. in IBM Israel. IBM Forum is the local solution and convention center, serving more than 10,000 customers a year. Our center is part of a network of 20+ centers across Europe.
Basically our mission is to support the local sales and marketing efforts of IBM and its Business Partners. In our center we allow business partners to showcase their proven solutions, based on IBM hardware and software, to the general public visiting IBM HQ.
Our team is educated on each solution present at IBM Forum so we could, in turn, articulate about the solution, thus creating more revenue for the business partner and IBM.

I particularly like to watch the press room of IBM Israel. Every article I see there I automatically go to our center archives and cross-check the customer name, to see when he visited our center. Like in this recent article, on a major SAP win at Yafora-Tavori, a leading Israeli manufacturer and distributer of soft drinks (RC Cola, Mineral Water, Spring, Shweppes and others).

I made my contribution, and it makes me feel better knowing I brought additional value for my customers (IBM and its business partners) who in turn increased the revenue of IBM Corp.

Presentations can make you laugh..

Published April 17, 2007 Uncategorized Closed
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I’m known to be a fairly good presenter, and I usually lecture on marketing/communication issues at work. Ever since I had to give a lecture about Web 2.0 for Managers, I take great interest in presentations techniques and methods. To stay up-to-date I follow Garr and Guy Kawasaki’s blogs, among others.

This last post from Garr really made me cry from laughter.. it’s amazing how true some of these insights are. I bet most of you have seen, at least once, a slide filled with information, that the presenter just read to you out loud, as if you are 1st graders who can’t read…
You can read the full post and watch more funny videos at PresentationZen.
Life After Death by PowerPoint

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Before I wrap this up, a friendly reminder:
IBM Software Group in Israel will host the SOA by IBM event in May 8th at Avenue. If you want to hear about SOA from business and industry leaders, you are most welcome to attend – it’s free! There are 4 different sessions to choose from, I’m sure you’ll find your spot, and get the answers you need.

And on the 25th day…

Published March 26, 2007 Uncategorized Closed
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The Take Back Control (TBC) campaign tells the story of Ned, IT manager and Gil, high ranking executive with little IT knowledge at a medium sized company. Both are worried about their company’s infrastructure status, especially the servers. Well, Gil is more worried than Ned actually. They fear the servers are taking over the company. Why?
Their servers over heat, cost a lot, consume more power, can’t handle the workload, integrate poorly with other applications – among other things.
With IBM Blade Servers – you have no worries. Scalable, slim, low power consumption, integrate with most applications, including non-IBM and easy to manage, with IBM Software products.

RSS readers: if you can’t see the video, click here.
The video is also available on Flix.co.il – here.

You can read more about IBM Take Back Control at the site, ibm.com/il/takebackcontrol/

World’s Best Presentation Contest at Slideshare.net

Published March 26, 2007 Uncategorized Closed
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Slideshare.net, a site for sharing presentations, just announced a contest to find the world’s best presentation. Naturally I entered to the contest and uploaded a presentation I gave recently about Web 2.0.

If you can’t see the presentation, click here.

Feel free to digg it and vote for it… appreciate it :-))

Also seen at PresentationZen and How to change the world.

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