The New York Times recently published a profile of IBM’s Samuel J. Palmisano, who stepped down as CEO at the beginning of this year after nearly a decade of running the company.  Palmisano notes in the interview that his overall guidance of IBM was in answer to four questions he formulated:“Why would someone spend their money with you — so what is unique about you?”“Why would somebody work for you?”“Why would society allow you to operate in their defined geography — their country?”“And why would somebody invest their money with you?”While the last two questions are more directed to a global,

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As I mentioned in the last newsletter, we’ve had an extraordinary number of requests to get the Synergy 2011 presentations online, a gratifying task as it shows that the content from our engineering and marketing teams really resonated with the Ektron community. I’m happy to say that the majority of the Synergy presentations – including the keynotes – are now available on the Ektron SlideShare account.  Among others, there you’ll find some outstanding presentations on Searchin 8.5, Ektronin the Azure Cloud,  the Ektron Digital Experience Hub and Best Practices for the Mobile Web.And if you

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We’re back from fabulous Las Vegas and our 5th annual customer and partner conference, Synergy 2011, and in a word, I thought it was fantastic. From the Tweets, blog posts, emails and in-person conversations with many of the 390+ people who attended, I think most of you would agree with my opinion.The dictionary definition of “synergy” is “the cooperation of two or more to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate work” and our Synergy is clear proof of that precept. There are many people to thank for making Synergy a success, including the Ektron employees who worked

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I was thinking I could almost do the same headline for my October blog post as I did for September as I sat down to write this.  Even though the Dog Days of Summer have passed and we’re expecting the first frost of the season tomorrow in New Hampshire, Ektron continues on a roll as we roll into Fall.First and foremost, we’re pleased to announce Ektron 8.5 graduated from “release candidate” and was officially released on September 29th. Positive partner and customer developer reaction continues to come in on 8.5, including the following:"Over the last three years, we have seen Ektron

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The dog days of summer are usually considered a slow time for news, but Ektron has enjoyed a lot of attention from the media over the past two months.Part of that is due to our Ektron 8.5 release candidate, which, as I noted last month, has received a great deal of favorable attention in the online press.  We’re also pleased to see praise about 8.5 from the people whose opinion matters most to us, our developer community, in both Twitter and email.   For example, a “Jay B.” a web director working in higher education, tweeted about a month ago, “ I am in love with the new #ektron 8.5

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