By Roger Strukhoff There's a funny article in Web 2.0 Journal by an SEO consultant from Italy named Salvatore Genovese, who thinks that Twitter is the dumbest thing he's ever seen. The column appears next to a short piece I wrote about my twittecdotes.Salvatore Feb. 14, 2009 04:50 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff I've been working on the elements in this blog, and also on becoming a moderately proficient twitterer, while simultaneously playing around with a new author site at http://rogerstrukhoff.ulitzer.com Feb. 13, 2009 09:51 PM EST Reads: 142 |
By Roger Strukhoff I've been working on the elements in this blog, and also on becoming a moderately proficient twitterer, while simultaneously playing around with a new author site at http://rogerstrukhoff.ulitzer.com Feb. 13, 2009 09:51 PM EST Reads: 185 |
By Roger Strukhoff The Year of the Ox is icumen in, in China and in the Bay Area. Our colleagues in China had the week off, although they couldn't resist the occasional peek at the blackberry.San Francisco's Chinese New Year's parade is coming up next week-end. Jan. 30, 2009 04:37 PM EST Reads: 134 |
By Roger Strukhoff The Year of the Ox is icumen in, in China and in the Bay Area. Our colleagues in China had the week off, although they couldn't resist the occasional peek at the blackberry.San Francisco's Chinese New Year's parade is coming up next week-end. Jan. 30, 2009 04:37 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff It's the Orthodox Christmas, so I can therefore wish everyone belated good wishes. Returned to the US on Dec. 23, completely fried, then took advantage of my company's holiday holiday.Back in the office Monday, Jan. 5 and now trying to get Jan. 7, 2009 12:20 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff It's the Orthodox Christmas, so I can therefore wish everyone belated good wishes. Returned to the US on Dec. 23, completely fried, then took advantage of my company's holiday holiday.Back in the office Monday, Jan. 5 and now trying to get Jan. 7, 2009 12:20 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff Sitting at Hong Kong airport, waiting for the long flight home. It was only 11-some hours in the air because we had a very large tailwind (and turbulence) that propelled us back to San Francisco as quickly as one could hope for.Will be Dec. 24, 2008 02:00 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff Sitting at Hong Kong airport, waiting for the long flight home. It was only 11-some hours in the air because we had a very large tailwind (and turbulence) that propelled us back to San Francisco as quickly as one could hope for.Will be Dec. 24, 2008 02:00 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff The border area of Shenzhen was nasty, just like nasty border towns anywhere in the world. Reminded me of Juarez. But once we got about an hour away, we found this salubrious Silicon Valley-type area, with hundreds of thousands of workers, and even warm, Dec. 24, 2008 01:52 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff The border area of Shenzhen was nasty, just like nasty border towns anywhere in the world. Reminded me of Juarez. But once we got about an hour away, we found this salubrious Silicon Valley-type area, with hundreds of thousands of workers, and even warm, Dec. 24, 2008 01:52 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff I flew into Hong Kong the night before meetings in Shenzhen. Mistake, because I had to use up my second (and final) entry from my limited-entry visa into China."One country, two systems" was the philosophy behind China's re-acquisition of Dec. 24, 2008 01:46 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff I flew into Hong Kong the night before meetings in Shenzhen. Mistake, because I had to use up my second (and final) entry from my limited-entry visa into China."One country, two systems" was the philosophy behind China's re-acquisition of Dec. 24, 2008 01:46 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff Well, I always thought that San Francisco had the surliest, least helpful cab drivers in the world. I am always embarrassed by how badly my city treats its guests, and the cab drivers are at the forefront of this abuse.But the guy in this Dec. 24, 2008 01:39 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff Well, I always thought that San Francisco had the surliest, least helpful cab drivers in the world. I am always embarrassed by how badly my city treats its guests, and the cab drivers are at the forefront of this abuse.But the guy in this Dec. 24, 2008 01:39 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff Dec. 24, 2008 01:33 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff Dec. 24, 2008 01:33 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff Dec. 24, 2008 01:25 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff Dec. 24, 2008 01:25 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff This is my first trip to Shanghai and I was left speechless by mid-afternoon yesterday. Those who know me would say this was some sort of great miracle.I won't try to summarize it here, and will refrain from the cliches you've all heard a Dec. 17, 2008 11:28 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff This is my first trip to Shanghai and I was left speechless by mid-afternoon yesterday. Those who know me would say this was some sort of great miracle.I won't try to summarize it here, and will refrain from the cliches you've all heard a Dec. 17, 2008 11:28 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff Dec. 17, 2008 05:17 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff Dec. 17, 2008 05:17 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff People have been trying to draw facile comparisons of Beijing to Shanghai and of the two cities to US cities, eg is the "Washington" and Shanghai the "New York" of China. As the kids say, whatever. The two cities, as with all great cities, are unique. Dec. 16, 2008 05:57 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff People have been trying to draw facile comparisons of Beijing to Shanghai and of the two cities to US cities, eg is the "Washington" and Shanghai the "New York" of China. As the kids say, whatever. The two cities, as with all great cities, are unique. Dec. 16, 2008 05:57 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff If you're going to record your trip, you might as well humiliate yourself early and often. This moment taken just before we hit the road from the VanceInfo CDC to another meeting... Dec. 16, 2008 05:19 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff If you're going to record your trip, you might as well humiliate yourself early and often. This moment taken just before we hit the road from the VanceInfo CDC to another meeting... Dec. 16, 2008 05:19 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff Had a nice, long discussion with Michael Zhang, head of the VanceInfo TIBCO China Development Center (CDC). Located in the "ZPark" software park in suburban Beijing in a Chinese version of a Silicon Valley setting, the CDC's 200 engineers are a unique Dec. 16, 2008 05:03 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff Had a nice, long discussion with Michael Zhang, head of the VanceInfo TIBCO China Development Center (CDC). Located in the "ZPark" software park in suburban Beijing in a Chinese version of a Silicon Valley setting, the CDC's 200 engineers are a unique Dec. 16, 2008 05:03 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff We met with one of the most respected IT editors in China, Li WeiZhong, whose eManufacturing reaches more than 300,000 people. He noted that the manufacturing sector in China trails only financial services and telco in the private sector, and has very Dec. 16, 2008 03:01 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff Another one of those ubiquitous Christmas trees, as we prepare to meet some local IT execs in the early evening. Dec. 16, 2008 02:36 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff So I was involved in some discussions about high-level enterprise IT with half a dozen people in Beijing. I had the help of an interpreter, although everyone involved had a good grasp of English and had been to North America at least once.I Dec. 15, 2008 06:36 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff Have to prove I'm in Beijing, right? This should do it. We're in early morning traffic on the way to our first meeting of the day. Dec. 15, 2008 02:56 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff The ubiquity of Christmas trees, Santa Claus, and reindeer continues to crack me up. Everyone tells me they don't really celebrate Christmas in China, but they think the trees are beautiful and the Santas are cute. People here don't even do extra Dec. 15, 2008 02:49 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff "So what do you do if a vendor comes in tells you it will take 18 to 24 months for your new deployemtn," I asked a group of industry people today. The question was followed by the expected gales of laughter. "I think most people would tell this vendor Dec. 15, 2008 02:43 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff The first meetings in Beijing have been quite informative. SOA, BPM, even BI and CEP are on the minds of IT executives, integrators, and analysts here. Even had a spirited discussion of virtualization and cloud computing at the analyst firm CCID Monday Dec. 15, 2008 02:37 PM EST Reads: 422 |
By Roger Strukhoff Along with the who's who of retail names featured along the main thoroughfares of Beijing are many very large, bright Christmas trees. You'll find big, beautiful trees in all the new malls and hotels as well.I asked a colleague of mine if Dec. 14, 2008 03:25 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff Dec. 14, 2008 07:18 AM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff Dec. 14, 2008 07:04 AM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff I arrived in Beijing on a grey Sunday afternoon in December following a 13-hour flight from San Francisco. I'm taking this trip to talk to people throughout China about their visions, missions, and progress with enterprise IT software initiatives. Dec. 14, 2008 06:38 AM EST |
Roger Strukhoff earned a BA with honors from Knox College, a Certificate in Technical Communications from UC-Berkeley, and an MBA from CSU-East Bay. His work recently won a "Stevie" American Business Award as best publication in its category. His volunteer work in international affairs merited a Letter of Commendation from the Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard. He splits most of his time between Silicon Valley and Southeast Asia, but can also be found at 
