Training under the Tour Eiffel
Literally.
I’m in Paris in these days, in our beatiful offices, and, as always, I could not save myself from finding a cool place to train for the upcoming Decathlon season.
This is cool. An athletics track under the Tour Eiffel gives you a unique training experience 
Look at the this pictures: the tower from the track, and 30 minutes later, the track from the tower!
My new job. At Adobe.
It has been some time since I wanted to write some lines about my new role at Adobe.
During the last week of January I had the pleasure of transitionig to the so called ‘Technical Marketing Team’ within the Digital Enterprise Solutions Business Unit at Adobe.
The official role name sounds like ‘Sr Product Marketing Manager’, but I’m still not sure about what it really means
My team is responsible of keeping an effective bridge between Engineering and the Field; we primarily work with Presales Consultants to generate, nurture and close the most challenging deals.
Our triple mantra is Evangelism, Engagement, Enablement.
I already had the chance of meeting most of my team-mates in Ottawa, few days ago, and it was a blast. It is pretty easy for a European guy to feel confortable in a French/American Canadian city, but they definitely made me feel at home… despite the 35°C difference between Ottawa and Como!
Since I’m the only European member of the team, so far, first thing, I had to change a little bit my decathlon training time (used to be late afternoon); fortunately I convinced my (athletics) team-mates to join me in the new training hours… thanks guys!
Training in Ottawa
I left Italy 2 days ago, heading to Ottawa, with a couple of nailed ideas:
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In Ottawa it can be freaking cold;
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There are, somewhere, 400 meters indoor tracks (for track and field);
While #1 has not been verified (‘warm’ weather in these days, never under -15°C), I have, at last, the chance of training in a 400 meters indoor track!
I want to share some pictures, especially for my Italian collegues (Decathlon side 
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This is a huge improvement since the #trainingintheparking time in Las Vegas.
Google Ricerca Personalizzata (beta)
Google Ricerca Personalizzata consente di specificare i siti da includere nella pagina dei risultati.
In questo semplice esperimento è possibile eseguire una ricerca all’interno di paolomottadelli.com e day.com
Potreste ad esempio cercare “Adobe”, o “Apache”…
Sono impaziente di ricevere suggerimenti sui migliori scenari di utilizzo!
Popolarità ciclica delle parole chiave. Esempio: l’arredamento
Nelle recenti settimane mi sono sempre più interessato ad argomenti correlati al Search Engine Marketing.
Facendo parte del mitico mondo del Web Content Management, si tratta di una digressione doverosa quanto interessante. Sono convinto che verranno occasioni migliori per esporre le mie considerazioni sulla correlazione tra tecnologia, prodotti di gestione dei contenuti, gestori di contenuti, copywriter, serch engines, search engine optimizers, marketers…. dimenticato nessuno nell’escalation?
Il motivo di interesse di questo post è tanto curioso quanto ovvio: lo schema seguente riporta l’andamento nel tempo della popolarità delle parole chiave nella categoria Arredamento, localizzate alla provincia di Milano.
I 4 picchi e mezzo che si ripetono ogni mese in occasione del week end farebbero capire anche a un marziano che in quei giorni è meglio tenersi lontani da posti che vendono mobili svedesi o simili!
Parole Chiave: popolarità della categoria Arredamento
My first Month @ Day
I have been working @ Day Software for 1 month, and it has literally flown away. You know that time runs fast when there’s plenty of things to do, and this was the case; again.
As a first approach I met, together with my Italian colleagues, our partners, and started thinking with them about the best for our next collaborations. I could find a very good foundation out there, on top of which to create very strong, efficient and productive partnerships.
One of those partners is, of course, Sourcesense, my former employer; we have already closed a good opportunity with those guys and we are already working on it for a successful implementation.
Spending 4 days in Basel, in our headquarters, made me get the fastest learning pace since when I started meeting Day’s technology. And it’s always so good to work together with such a top quality engineering group (but don’t ever forget I’m in the sales one! ).
Finally, last week, I took part to Ignite 2009, in Zuerich. Ignite is Day’s Customer Summit, where partners and customers meet, from all over Europe, to exchange their experiences, feelings and wishes around CQ5 and CRX.
I really hope that things will keep going in the same exciting, challenging and fast-growing way they did in this first month!
