White Bean Chicken Chili

I’m Eric Brown, a research director and 13-year veteran here at Forrester. I love to talk about topics like role-based marketing, customer experience, sales enablement, and healthcare IT.  I’ll be back to blog about those things another day.  Today, I want to talk about food.

In Cambridge, five of us on the tech industry marketing research team get together to make lunch for the group in rotation each Wednesday.  It’s been great — I recommend it (and not just because of ‘these tough economic times.’) It was my turn today, and I brought my White Bean Chicken Chili.  Well, not mine really.  The recipe is from Cooks Illustrated.  Email me and I’ll send you the recipe. 

Sharing a meal is very much the theme in the US this week, and so I’m getting my feet wet in the blogosphere to wish my peers, customers, and readers a Happy Thanksgiving. 

Now that's technology marketing

I suspect that there are two reactions to this video:

1. "Oooooh, cool! Now I want a Prime Computer!"
2. "Who the heck is that guy?"

Count yourself on one side or another of this dividing line of humanity. I bet some enterprising company could take this commercial, digitally alter it to include a different product, and still reach people in Category #1. (At least, consumers in Great Britain, and the attendees at the San Diego Comic Con.)

Friday follies: Worst captchas ever

If you've ever been frustrated entering the garbled text displayed in a "captcha" graphic, you'll enjoy this presentation.

When you're at Translate Server Error, you're family

File this under, "You Get What You Pay For."

Site of the day: Readatwork.com

Readatwork is certainly one of the cleverest sites I've seen in a while. You can read a few short stories on line, in an interface that looks like the standard Windows desktop and PowerPoint. Now, it just needs more content.

On a less serious note...

Greg the Architect is pretty funny. Thanks to fellow new analyst Chris Andrews for the pointer.