The NoSQL movement had been garnering a lot of attention recently. It’s a trend largely facilitated by the changing demands of the transactional web. Today, the web is bidirectional and much more content oriented than it was in years past. The amount of user generated content has increased exponentially and relational databases are not tailored [...]

Clients regularly ask me what they should be doing with relation to public social networks like Twitter and Facebook. This is usually a frantic behind the eight ball type discussion generated by social media hype evoking a sense of urgency and haste. I generally respond with a question- what is your marketing and brand strategy as [...]

I spent the last two days at the Defrag Conference in Denver, Colorado. Defrag is, in its own words “focused on the tools and technologies that accelerate the ‘aha’ moment, and is a gathering place for the growing community of implementers, users, and thinkers that are building the next wave of software innovation.” It was [...]

Greetings, all. As I am the Practice Manager for Avalon’s newest practice area (Social Computing), I thought it is only appropriate to share what I am going to focus our efforts on and how I view our evolving world of social computing. Like any evolving technology, social computing means many different to many different people…