I'll be traveling the roadways across the great U.S. over the next couple weeks and not posting here on the blog. Hopefully, you'll enjoy the break from my writing, too!
Traveling the Highways and Byways
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Miscellaneous
Changing Nature of Problem Solving
The Measurement Control & Automation Association (MCAA) is having their annual Industry Forum this week in Tempe, Arizona. The session is filled with instrumentation and automation suppliers from large companies and small. The two day conference shares updates in...
Is it Worth Your Time to Listen Online?
Things seem to have settled out in our transition of this blog over to Wordpress. We've been repairing a few breaks from the move of 5+ years of posts. We don't have them all but hopefully most. I appreciate any feedback you have on the new site as we continue to...
Two Views on Leadership
With the Dilbert cartoon poking fun at highly hierarchical organizational structures these past few days (14-Apr-2011, 15-Apr-2011), it's great to see an alternative view in the post on leadership over at the ControlGlobal.com SoundOff! Editors' Blog, Leaders on...
Posts from the Emerson Process Management Blogosphere
This will likely be a light posting week with travel and meetings. I'll highlight some of the recent posts on some of the other Emerson Process Management blogs. Over at the Modeling and Control (RSS) blog, Terry Blevins has a post on ratio control. Terry opens: For...
To Blog or Not to Blog
To Blog or Not to Blog. That is the title of an article I wrote for the winter 2011 edition of Valve magazine. Being a blogger, you might expect my answer to be yes--and you'd be correct. I gave it an emphatic yes. Here's my brief rationale for this affirmative...
Have a Great Holiday Season!
I want to wish everyone a great holiday season and let you know that posting will resume the first week of January 2011. Enjoy!
Social Media for Automation Sales and Marketing Folks
Posting will be lighter this week than normal. I'm in Atlanta for the ISA Marketing and Sales Summit. I'll be speaking with automation supplier sales and marketing folks on my favorite topic, social media. The talk is titled, Social Media--Should We, Should We Not, or...
Thoughts on Blogging and Sharing Expertise
The organizers of the ISA Marketing & Sales Summit asked if I'd share some thoughts on blogging in advance of the upcoming conference on September 1-3 in Atlanta, Georgia. I'll be speaking at this event with a presentation titled Social Media - Should We, Should...
Greg McMillan Deminar Series for July Rescheduled for August
I have a quick programming note for you for this week. We originally had two Greg McMillan demonstrations/seminars (a.k.a. deminars) scheduled for July, one this week on July 14th and one the following week on July 21st. Due to schedule conflicts and other events,...
Twitter for Listening
Chris Chiappinelli, from the Managing Automation blogs, has an interesting post, For Manufacturers, a Reason to Tweet. What caught my eye was: Thinking of Twitter as primarily a sales development tool, however, is the wrong approach, according to the post. Instead,...
And Now for Something Completely Different
OK, well maybe not completely different, but here's another end of week post not featuring our experts around Emerson. If you didn't see the press release announcing the corporate B2B blog award that we were honored to receive, it noted a new title, social media...
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