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Author Archives Paul Pedrazzi

Are you the only one who “gets it” at your company?

Do you have a vision for how technology can transform what your company or department does, but no one will listen?  Do you spend your day “evangelizing” the merits of social networking behind the firewall but finding it fall on deaf ears?  Do you find yourself explaining how a wiki works to everyone who emails you [...]

Posted 08 July 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Collaboration with real ROI (finally)

The family and I decided last Friday that we all deserved cheeseburgers for dinner (ok, my 4 year old daughter decided, but let’s pretend I had some say in the matter. We decide on Chili’s and commence to enjoy a fantastic heaping helping of saturated fat and salt. On the bright side, the [...]

Posted 02 June 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Tracking The Competition, Socially

Yesterday in Denver, Jake and I had lunch with a few nice folks from NewsGator, one of which was Jeff Nolan. As you may know, Jeff writes Venture Cronicles. In friendfeed, I noticed that Jeff had posted to his blog, so I went to have a read and ended up reading several posts. [...]

Posted 15 April 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Musings on UTR 2008

Every year I attend the Under The Radar conference held at the Microsoft Silicon Valley location. The organization is flawless, the companies interesting, and the facilities are wonderful.
If you don’t know, UTR is a showcase for start-ups that are not (yet) in the limelight. In fact, this is where many launch to the [...]

Posted 24 March 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Is Your Job Next?

I am not sure why the power (or danger) of the global economy never really hit me before, but I was checking out elance.com as it was mentioned in a recent book I read. If you don’t know, elance is a services marketplace. Anyway, I searched on there for design providers. Guess [...]

Posted 07 March 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

What makes a blogger?

Blogging is tough. Some do it well (like Jake) and others don’t spend the time to make it happen (like me). I have found very few that keep it up. It is just another thing that takes up time.
Here is what I think makes it work for a person:
1. [...]

Posted 10 January 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

I’m it.

Ok, per Rich’s post. Here goes:
1. I like lots of things, but nothing as much as Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. I run Norcal BJJ Academy and it consumes me. I had my first introduction by being soundly beaten by someone I outweighted by 50lbs over 9years ago. After that rather [...]

Posted 09 January 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °