Nigel Fortlage
Information Technology executive that see's technology as a tool, not an end game. Able to take broad view on technology and it's impact to business. Not afraid to push the envelope when it makes sense, does not seek to be bleeding edge for the sake of technology.
Homepage: http://nfortlage.blogspot.com
Posts by Nigel Fortlage
The Cloud, why do I care?
April 7, 2011 - 1:04 am
Tags: alternate delivery model, cloud, delivery model, IT fundamentals, software selection
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Repost Alert This is a re-post from Last Years Blog Idol but I find it still very relevant as the constant over hype of the cloud as some magic bullet for organizations with IT problems just misses the mark as I see it. Read on to understand how I see the cloud and what I [...]
Canada’s Do Not Call List Obviously Not working
April 7, 2011 - 12:51 am
Tags: Canada, do not call list
Posted in Misc | 3 comments
Background Before the Story Before I share this with you, you have to understand the current background in which this event happened. Canada’s government fell recently upon presentation of their federal budget, that has caused us to have another federal election. We have had so many that it almost seems it is an annual $300 [...]
What to Expect with Blog Idol
March 29, 2011 - 5:17 pm
Posted in Blogging Idol 2010 Archives | 3 comments
The first email I viewed this morning on my blackberry was from an old acquaintance, Shane Shick, who once again asked if I was interested in attempting to be any sort of competition to blogging champion from last year, Chris Lau. I do not blog near the ferocity that Chris does, but I hope I add quality [...]
United Breaks Guitars – Understanding Social Customer Service
May 3, 2010 - 11:30 pm
Tags: social
Posted in Blogging Idol 2010 Archives, Misc | 1 comment
United Breaks Guitars – Understanding Social Customer Service I have been on this quest to understand Social Marketing and Business and how the two meet. I had a slight epiphany tonight while re watching the Dave Carroll video, “United Breaks Guitars”. While we know that Dave was approached after the fact by United to [...]
A quick observation in education
April 30, 2010 - 2:30 pm
Tags: cio, education, social
Posted in Blogging Idol 2010 Archives, Misc | No comments
What my kids teach me is the use of a product or service can go beyond what I conceive it to be, therefore I must always keep an open mind.
Social Media A CIO View
April 28, 2010 - 10:56 pm
Tags: busines, cio, media, social
Posted in Blogging Idol 2010 Archives, Misc | No comments
Social What? Social Media, Social Networking, or Social Business as I prefer to call it. The name itself doesn’t really matter but the end goal is clear, for business users the ultimate goal doesn’t change, impact to the bottom line. The dot com era taught us that the models may change but the fundamentals of [...]
Chapter 5 – CIO to Marketing Guy
April 26, 2010 - 11:36 pm
Tags: cio, marketing, media, social
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This will be my final posting on this journey topic, not because it’s done but because I am now getting into the tree’s of this, what I learn will refine and change, part of that I want to keep private, other parts aren’t germain to this story. As a wrap up here are some of [...]
Chapter 4 – CIO to Marketing Guy
April 26, 2010 - 11:33 pm
Tags: cio, marketing, media, social
Posted in Blogging Idol 2010 Archives, Misc | Comments Off
Chapter 4 is all about my first lesson on social marketing. When I began this journey I thought there were 2 types of marketing; email and social Reality there are numerous, commonly divided into; Email Marketing (Push) Adword Marketing (Pull) Social Marketing (Pull) We are all familiar with email, or the spam it creates in [...]
Chapter 3 – CIO to Marketing Guy
April 26, 2010 - 11:32 pm
Tags: cio, marketing, media, social
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It has been a while since I posted my last installment in this story, sorry to all that may be following it. In the first installment in this series I introduced the concept and how I was brought into this evolving role as Marketing Guy. Just for clarity I have not abandoned my role as [...]
Chapter 2 – CIO to Marketing Guy
April 26, 2010 - 11:31 pm
Tags: cio, marketing, media, social
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In the first instalment in this series I introduced the concept and how I was brought into this evolving role as Marketing Guy. Just for clarity I have not abandoned my role as CIO type, I have added the marketing to it. I started with 3 major challenges; Learn to be open to social networks [...]
From CIO to Marketing Guy!
April 26, 2010 - 11:30 pm
Tags: cio, marketing, media, social
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From CIO to Marketing Guy! This is a reprint from my own personal blog, this series is a primer that will help you understand a new piece I will be publishing on a CIO’s view on Social Media =================================================== This is the first in a series of posts I will share my journey from CIO [...]
Virtualization, beyond the hype…
April 22, 2010 - 3:04 pm
Tags: Virtualization
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My award winning team has been recognized for their work previously in virtualization, server consolidation, and use of open source Linux for over a decade now in the enterprise. We are implementing the next wave of this journey with virtualized servers and storage across the entire data center, these are our observations so far
Shifting the Mindset of IT to Cause Transformation in Business
April 22, 2010 - 3:01 pm
Tags: cio, Conference, ecmes, leadership, steve rosenthal
Posted in Blogging Idol 2010 Archives | 1 comment
The title for this post came from a speech presented by Steve Rosenthal, Vice President, Gap International, you can read his Bio here. Shifting the Mindset of IT to Cause Transformation in Business While I was at the east coast Midsize Enterprise Summit in Boca Ration, Fl. Steve presented this topic. Here is my perspective [...]
Day Three (final) at Midsize Enterprise Summit
April 20, 2010 - 11:59 pm
Tags: cio, Conference, leadership
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The third and final day has come to a close as I write this. This years event is wrapping up about a 1/2 day earlier than it used to, that is OK as it enables us all to travel home for some rest . Day Three The third and final day had many of the [...]
Day Two at Midsize Enterprise Summit
April 20, 2010 - 12:53 am
Tags: cio, Conference, leadership
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For any tweeters out there the hash tag to follow the live tweets for this event is #ecmes Day Two WOW what a full day, starting at 6am I needed to get my daily work out in, by 8am I was in the first keynote, by 10:30pm my day finally ended, here in summary was [...]
