Who Are You?

Friday, January 19th 2007 | Ismael Ghalimi

On any given day, this modest blog receives about 500 visits, and is read by a little bit more than 500 subscribers to its feed. I get to know a few of my readers through the comments that are posted, and from the trackbacks that I gather using Technorati. For the rest of you, and you represent the vast majority of my readers, I have no idea of who you are. So how about you tell me?

I’d love to know more about you, because it would help me better understand what you might be interested by, which in turn would help me write about stuff that will be of interest to you. And because you’re kind enough to tolerate my poor prose, I’d love to get a chance to say thanks directly.

There are a couple of ways you can tell me more about you. If you want to share it with others, and give me some quotes I could use in later posts, you should feel free to write a comment to this post. But if you’d rather stay under the radar, you can also send me an email, which I promise won’t be shared with anyone but my SugarCRM instance.

And if you really like what you’re getting from this little blog of mine, I would like to encourage you to share the love and digg it, del.icio.us it, track it back from your own blog, link to it from your website, email articles to your best friends, or all of the above. And if you’re not a subscriber yet, become one today!

Last but not least: you still have 48 hours to vote for the best online bookmarking application, and I need some help for completing the Office 2.0 Database for the upcoming Office 2.0 Roundup on Calendars. In return, I’ll give you a brand new design for the blog, very soon.

See you next week!

Entry filed under: Social Networking

23 Comments - Add a comment

1. WhatsNewToday | January 19th, 2007 at 8:22 pm

Ismael,

Have you tried MyBlogLog? Then you’ll know many of your visitors—your visitors’ pictures will be shown on your blog, and know more about them through their profiles on MyBlogLog or their blogs. Here is ours for example.

Sorry for a little bit of self-promotion.

Thanks!

2. Davor | January 20th, 2007 at 4:56 am

Hello Ismael,

I am Davor Meersman, and I am the sales & communications manager of Synergetics, a human factor process modelling company that also uses Intalio. Basically, I read your blog because I share your vision on the whole Office 2.0 thing, and I am interested in seeing BPM 2.0 and Office 2.0 make collaboration between multiple partners easy and efficient in the future.

I am doing PhD research on collaborative communication frameworks and semantics in business processes. My interest is to see how you can make perceived/real product semiotics/semantics/characteristics travel throughout organizations, in fact glueing the mind of the market to day to day business processes, creating faster time to market. It was in discussing this with Arnaud that he told me about your blog. Must have been a year ago or so.

I also use your product reviews to look for opportunities for them in our company. Except in the case of the iPhone—I was already buying that one when it was just a rumour.

3. John Rath | January 21st, 2007 at 2:43 pm

Ismael,

As a fellow blogger I can certainly appreciate knowing your audience. My blog is a small, beginner blog on the data center industry. I check your blog out roughly once a week, and enjoy reading it. I’ve worked in IT for over 13 years, and enjoy keeping up on all aspects of it. My interests are mainly anything Google or Amazon, SaaS, and Open Source, but I also enjoy reading about BPM and OpenOffice.org as well.

Keep up the good work!
-John

4. Alastair Bathgate | January 22nd, 2007 at 3:07 am

Ismael,

We spoke on the phone a few months ago with your Intalio hat on. I read your blog because I am interested in your thoughts on software development, especially open-source. Also, I intend to start a blog myself in the near future, so I am looking for ideas regarding format as well as content. Hope you are well, and do keep up the good work!

-Alastair

5. Tomoaki Sawada | January 22nd, 2007 at 7:50 am

Ismael,

As WhatsNewToday said, I just joined the MyBlogLog community, and started to see who is visiting my blog. It is quite interesting to see the photos of the visitors, and I also enjoy chatting with some of them by forming my—I mean Ismael’s blog fan—community.

Regards
-Ismael

6. Ismael Ghalimi | January 22nd, 2007 at 11:18 am

WhatNewToday, Tomoaki,

Thanks for the tip. I’ll give it a shot.

Best regards
-Ismael

7. Ismael Ghalimi | January 22nd, 2007 at 11:19 am

Davor,

Thanks for sharing your background with us. I am glad to see that I am not the only one interested by the intersection of BPM 2.0 and Office 2.0. Please keep us posted on your progress regarding your research work.

Best regards
-Ismael

8. Ismael Ghalimi | January 22nd, 2007 at 11:19 am

John,

Thanks for sharing!

Best regards
-Ismael

9. Ismael Ghalimi | January 22nd, 2007 at 11:20 am

Alastair,

Let me know if you have any question regarding blogging. This article might be of interest to you if you’ve not read it already. Good luck with your new blog, and send us the link when it’s live.

Best regards
-Ismael

10. Barry Briggs | January 22nd, 2007 at 3:45 pm

Barry Briggs, GM, Microsoft IT Advanced Platforms Group. As you know, I share many of your views on BPM, although I would argue that .Net technologies and products are a better fit, and more cost effective!

Keep up the great work
-Barry

11. Andrew Kulikov | January 23rd, 2007 at 12:40 am

Andrew Kulikov, ERP consultant and developer, Russia. Ismael, Office 2.0 is a great thing, and you’re doing really hard work evangelizing it. It’s a bit hard to follow all those neat Web applications and solutions, and I’m glad I can read your blog to learn about them.

12. Xavier Aragones | January 23rd, 2007 at 4:52 am

Ismael,

I am reading you from Barcelona, Spain. I’ve worked in Marketing for Higher Education for over 8 years, and I’m very interested in IT, and how it can help us to collaborate without time or space borders.

Thank you for your hard work!

Best regards!
-Xavier

13. Travis Wissink | January 23rd, 2007 at 8:45 am

Ismael,

We’ve never spoken, and I now forgot how I came across your blog, but I have interests in (Enterprise) Content Management. I’m waiting for the day when there will be enough standards and feature-rich interfaces that make any BPM tool compatible with any content repository, and consequently any authentication and authorization service.

Regards
-Travis

14. Ismael Ghalimi | January 23rd, 2007 at 10:15 am

Barry,

Thanks for the feedback. .Net is great for Microsoft-centric accounts indeed, and your BPM technologies are definitely some of the best out there. I just wish you would embrace the Java platform and Open Source more broadly.

Best regards
-Ismael

15. Ismael Ghalimi | January 23rd, 2007 at 10:16 am

Andrew,

Thanks for the kind words.

Best regards
-Ismael

16. Ismael Ghalimi | January 23rd, 2007 at 10:18 am

Xavier,

You should expect more on Office 2.0 within the academic world soon.

Best regards
-Ismael

17. Ismael Ghalimi | January 23rd, 2007 at 10:20 am

Travis,

This day might come sooner that you think…

Best regards
-Ismael

18. Amir | January 23rd, 2007 at 7:20 pm

Ismael,

Today is actually my first visit ever to your blog. I was searching for information on SAP and ABAP, since I’m planning to become certified. I’m a BIS student majoring in knowledge management, and currently doing my 8 months internship at Alcatel-Lucent… I’m more interested in the business side of BIS, but I realized I should gain deeper knowledge on technical aspects.

Your blog is defintely interesting and many of your posts are very enjoyable.

I’ll certainly be dropping by again.

19. Ismael Ghalimi | January 24th, 2007 at 10:45 am

Amir,

Thanks for the kind words, much appreciated.

Best regards
-Ismael

20. Areerat Goo | January 24th, 2007 at 9:25 pm

Hi Ismael,

I am another subscriber to your feed. Currently, I am working as a System Analyst implementing a project using SAP Portal. I am interested by what’s going on in BPM 2.0, but I still haven’t had any chance to try the product out. I enjoy reading your posts since they keep me updated on new products and ideas in this area.

Thank you for your sharing!

21. Ismael Ghalimi | January 25th, 2007 at 10:23 am

Areerat,

Thank you!

Best regards
-Ismael

22. Apoorv | January 27th, 2007 at 11:23 am

Ismael,

I regret that I did not find your blog earlier. I share some of your views, and my interests are in the ECM space. I enjoyed reading your blog, and I guess will be a regular one now.

Best
-Apoorv

23. Ismael Ghalimi | January 27th, 2007 at 11:26 am