Brent's Social CRM Blog

Enterprise 2.0 Conference - The Conference

Heading to the big Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston for a few days. I'm really looking forward to learning more about this and hope to come back with some good info on this. But really cool thing about this is that three of the featured speakers at the conference have been guests on our radio show, Technology For Business Sake:

• Anil Dash of Six Apart
• Ross Mayfield of SocialText
• Don Tapscott, author of Understanding Wikinomics

This says a lot about our little show being able to attract the heavy hitters in the industry to talk about how issues like Enterprise 2.0 and other technology trends are impacting small businesses.

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GoogleFarce: Much Ado About Nothing Much....But it's Still Good For Small Businesses

While I'm in the midst of figuring out my blogging strategy I couldn't resist this. Over the last few weeks we've been hearing about this big announcement coming from Salesforce.com that had something to do with Google. So many thought it would be a deep partnership greasing the skids for Google to acquire SFDC, which would have been great for me since I predicted Google acquiring a CRM company sometime this year. I'm not holding my breath for that to happen after yesterday's announcement that Google and SFDC will be doing a deal similar to what Google and Intuit did last year.

Basically, Salesforce.com Group Edition will allow smbs to use Google's e-mail, mapping and word-processing programs, as well as AdWords. It's actually a pretty nice bundle, especially for the intro price of $600/yr for up to 5 users - that price is good for 30 days before going up to $1,200. It's just not the Earth shattering news that everyone was anticipating. Everyone but NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson, who pretty much nailed it in a conversation we had with him last week on our radio show. All in all it's good news for small business, but leaves you feeling a bit cheated if you're expecting something a little meatier to chew on.

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