Really excited to publish my first-ever blog posting. I don’t mean my first as the editor/blogger but my first ever of any kind. 

This is really my pilot or test site with wordpress. This will be my first DIY effort in the new long-page and infographic era. I am looking forward to it. I have a lot to share. I am thinking that my production site will be called either ‘Iteration365’ or ‘life bok’ for life body-of-knowledge or ‘who is in your canoe?’

I would like to have the top of the site (the part you will see when you land) as the primary product/service offering and below that we will have three to four columns (think editorial sections) each a continuing dialogue on a focus area we are passionate about.

For example, I think I will do an ongoing column on ‘Conversations-as-a-Service’. Greg may do one on Managing Enterprise Application Sales Teams. Maribeth may do one on developing and maintaining administrative service culture. I may want to do another one on all the things that I learned in business and team building, both good and bad. 

First though, I am really passionate about how recent advances in computing power, big data, and machine learning are actually making expert systems, artificial intelligence, and enhanced intelligence a practical reality. I can see how that will quickly transcend into intelligent, interesting, and meaningful machine-to-human conversations that will take place through messaging applications. Both chat and voice. 

I think Microsoft has a big advantage when it comes to voice recognition because of the massive volumes of voice communication content they have with Skype. That content/data provides tremendous context for how people communicate. That helps.

Thanks for absorbing my first blog post

Mike