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DEC

Tim Armstrong, CEO of AOL, to present at Annual Membership Meeting in January

Posted by: Tod Fetherling  /  Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Dear Members,

We are excited to announce our program for the 2011 Membership Meeting and we wanted you to be the first to know.  Tim Armstrong, CEO of AOL, will be our featured speaker and will share his vision of where the new economy is heading.  Tim has lead a phenomenal turnaround at AOL.  Prior to joining AOL, Tim was formerly the VP of Sales of Google and has more than 16 years in new media and Internet related ventures.  Tim is at the forefront of the new economy and will bring tremendous energy to the Nashville technology community for this special event.

Joining Tim will be a special guest to be announced in the next few days.  We will also provide you with a special video presentation and an update on the Nashville Technology Council.  2010 has been a great year and 2011 looks to be even more exciting.  Please come help us celebrate the new year.

Seating is limited, so please register as soon as possible for the best seating.  Register here: http://www.technologycouncil.com/connect/membershipbreakfast2011/
$35 Members
$250 for Reserved Seating of Eight (Bring your whole team or invite a few clients to have lunch with you.)

This year we are moving the meeting to lunch to accommodate several logistical issues.  We will meet at Boone Auditorium on the Trevecca University campus on Murfreesboro Road on January 18, 2011, from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM.

Thank you for your continued support,

Tod Fetherling
President/CEO
Nashville Technology Council

Dear Members,



We are excited to announce our program for the 2011 Membership Meeting and we wanted you to be the first to know.  Tim Armstrong, CEO of AOL will be our featured speaker and will share his vision of where the new economy is heading.  Tim has lead a phenomenal turnaround at AOL.  Prior to joining AOL, Tim was formerly the VP of Sales of Google and has more than 16 years in New Media and Internet related ventures.  Tim is at the forefront of the new economy and will bring tremendous energy to the Nashville Technology community for this special event.

Joining Tim, will be a special guest to be announced in the next few days.  We will also provide you with a special video presentation and an update on the Nashville Technology Council.  2010 has been a great year and 2011 looks to be even more exciting.  Please come help us celebrate the new year.

Seating is limited, so please register as soon as possible for the best seating.  Register here: http://www.technologycouncil.com/connect/membershipbreakfast2011/
$35 Members
$250 for Reserved Seating of Eight (Bring your whole team or invite a few clients to have lunch with you.)

This year, we are moving the meeting to Lunch to accommodate several logistical issues.  We will meet at Boone Auditorium on the Trevecca University campus on Murfreesboro Road from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM.

Thank you for your continued support,Dear Members,

We are excited to announce our program for the 2011 Membership Meeting and we wanted you to be the first to know.  Tim Armstrong, CEO of AOL will be our featured speaker and will share his vision of where the new economy is heading.  Tim has lead a phenomenal turnaround at AOL.  Prior to joining AOL, Tim was formerly the VP of Sales of Google and has more than 16 years in New Media and Internet related ventures.  Tim is at the forefront of the new economy and will bring tremendous energy to the Nashville Technology community for this special event.

Joining Tim, will be a special guest to be announced in the next few days.  We will also provide you with a special video presentation and an update on the Nashville Technology Council.  2010 has been a great year and 2011 looks to be even more exciting.  Please come help us celebrate the new year.

Seating is limited, so please register as soon as possible for the best seating.  Register here: http://www.technologycouncil.com/connect/membershipbreakfast2011/
$35 Members
$250 for Reserved Seating of Eight (Bring your whole team or invite a few clients to have lunch with you.)

This year, we are moving the meeting to Lunch to accommodate several logistical issues.  We will meet at Boone Auditorium on the Trevecca University campus on Murfreesboro Road from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM.

Thank you for your continued support,

12

OCT

What’s all the hype about?

Posted by: Tod Fetherling  /  Tags: , , , , , ,


Well, Gartner makes it easy for us to ascertain this in their latest hype cycle report or really product management curve. The real strategy is knowing why to get onto the next starting curve or bifurcation. For me, I like to focus on the technology trigger and plateau of productivity.  This is where the money is made.  Stars and Cash Cows from the Boston Consulting Group Matrix. In the technology trigger, Gartner sees growth in video search and human augmentation.  Two local plays in Predictive Analysis (Consensus Point) and Digital Speech Recognition (Entrada) are both in the productivity plateaus.  Of notable mention is the Tablet, as it is hitting the peak of inflated expectations as Walmart and Target fight over the consumer’s wallet at Christmas for the iPad.

“Gartner has examined the maturity of 1,800 technologies and trends in 75 technology, topic, and industry areas. Each of the 75 individual Hype Cycle reports provides a snapshot of a key area of IT or business. Senior executives, CIOs, strategists, business developers and technology planners should consider these technologies when developing emerging business and technology portfolios. The “Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies” is the longest-running annual Hype Cycle, providing a cross-industry perspective on the technologies and trends that IT managers should consider in developing emerging-technology portfolios (see Figure 1).”



Source: http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1447613