The big question - WHY?

The big question is why?  Why, Alan, are you starting a blog about data quality, master data, enterprise information management, and other dataphiliac topics?  Well, here you go...

Reason #1 - I heart data.
Having spent the last 49 dog years in the e-business space, I have learned the true power of data and can't seem to live without it anymore.  It is like coffee in the morning.

Reason #2 - Can I interest you in <somthing relevant>?
Whether it is selling to my wife to spend the rest of her life with me or selling my son that he should eat his vegetables, I have been a salesmen all my life.  To sell effectively, I have to understand what people really want, in other words, to be relevant.  One of the reasons I started this blog is to stay relevant so that I can create/sell products that people are actually looking for.  Social media turns out to be the best way to stay relevant in a timely manner.  Yes, "selling" sounds bad, but we all have to pay bills. :)

Reason #3 - Boneless chicken wings, anyone?
As many of you are aware, social media is full of noise.  While I am spending time listening to the social space with respect to data, I run in to lot of jibber jabber that isn't relevant.   I wish someone would filter out the bone and just give me the meat on a weekly basis.  Well, instead of wishing, I might as well just do it.

So here I am, writing a weekly curated consolidation of social chit chat on data quality, master data, enterprise information management, and other dataphiliac topics.