BOINK

About BOINK

Recent social media tools like facebook and myspace have reduced the effort, and – let’s be honest – THOUGHT required to represent yourself on the public domain, while blogs have provided the diametric vector, resulting in a darwinist catalogue of those that have something to say worthy of the public’s consumption versus those that painfully do not.

So until recently I’ve been more of a listener than a speaker, absorbing information and focusing on $life and $work. The tight-knit group with which I have taken to engaging in riveting dialogue is now distributed across the planet, and as my network grows so too I recognise the value of the interaction with peers, SME’s, and general opinion-havers in that global network after the 3rd-level connection.

I crave having this dialogue with YOU. Let this site be our chatroom, hosted by me.

While I recognise the importance of brand in this forum, I’ve not yet developed a clear idea of what that identity is.  I fortunately have the advantage of relative obscurity on my side while I try to figure that out.

From a content perspective, the brand is clear – the evolution of information technology. I may cover developments in the business domain, technology and protocol advancements within the cloud, the mundane and pervasive Consumer Electronics, and of course ideas, vision, and “my opinion”. I will not turn this into a “here’s what I did today” running diary – and I encourage you to remind me of that if I ever stray.

About Mike Diamond

An expert in Information Technology at all layers of the OSI model, Mike Diamond’s knowledge and experience have been a valued asset to many organisations, from high-growth start-up businesses to established multi-national enterprises. Mike has a long history in the management of teams, developing IT strategies and objectives that support strategic business goals.

With a unique ability to effortlessly translate complex technical precepts, and a natural ability to communicate technology to any audience, Mr. Diamond is a technology visionary who leads, mentors, and inspires peers towards the adoption of best practices, leading technologies, and advanced solutions. Mr. Diamond possesses deep knowledge and experience across a breadth of functional disciplines spanning enterprise, service provider, and metro IT environments; IT infrastructure design and architecture verticals including virtualization, datacenter, networking, The Internet, systems and storage, security, authentication, application development, user interfaces, scalability, and availability; and business management issues such as risk assessment, strategy development, prioritization and execution, evaluation of trends and opportunities, business process automation, capacity planning, change and release management, documentation, best practice, and compliance.