It doesn’t matter what the excuse is, if you have a profile on LinkedIn, there is no good excuse for at least including a picture, writing a summary, including your education and a few details like a website, interests (business and personal) and adding a few connections. Are you Lazy or is it Fake? don’t have the time! Try this.

It doesn’t matter what the excuse is, if you have a profile on LinkedIn, there is no good excuse for at least including a picture, writing a summary, including your education and a few details like a website, interests (business and personal) and adding a few connections. Are you Lazy or is it Fake? don’t have the time!

Do we employ learning objects in upper-division classes because the students are more self-motivated once they’re in their majors, or is that the critical time to connect with them because the sort of research they’re doing is higher-level? In academic libraries, there are usually so many levels of priorities. But how? Tweet This!

How are SAP coping with the opportunities and red herrings our increasingly connected world surfaces for them to respond to Historically SAP are an enterprise structured data software company: as society evolves unstructured data is ever more important.

While it was a thrill for me, by then his blog had already connected him with people in about a dozen English-speaking countries.”. There was a recent article in Forbes about my long time virtual friend, Gautam Ghosh. By then Ghosh’s blog, now called Talent and Social Business was voted as the third most popular in India.    

This is a very interesting idea for me and has many connections to my work in project management. Real collaboration happens when we agree to move money across borders. Tuesday opened with a fun, story-filled keynote from  Gregory Howell  of the  Lean Construction Institute. That got my attention. In this model the project is a web of tasks.

In my keynote on The Future of Crowds at TheNextWeb conference shown below I built on this perspective to suggest that: “Crowds are an extension of our capabilities” Now that we are connected, now that we can tap global talent and resources, our capabilities are extended to an extraordinary degree.

Constant connection and the blurring of the lines between rest and work that it sometimes causes is one of the clearest downsides to the otherwise pretty awesome phenomenon of remote and flexible working. But can space design also play a role? How can you keep your work life from invading spaces that should be used for chilling?

One example is VizWiz , which uses connectivity and crowd platforms so that many people can ‘lend’ their eyes to the blind. Below is a brief interview I did when I spoke at TheNextWeb conference in Amsterdam recently. This choice shapes how actively we seek and create opportunities from change. See more on this topic.

In Asia, for instance, internet penetration is still at a modest 21 percent, leaving some 825 million people yet to get connected. Barrie’s company charges them and job posters a hefty but variable commission to connect on the site. In a word, he’s optimistic. million users around the world. Sign up for a free trial.

Connect with others in public social networks or in private groups or communities (keeping up to date outside the organization). Jane Hart asked readers “ how regularly are you “learning” in the workplace? Notice that these are all informal. The more formal methods, like courses, ranked much lower on the survey results.

There are two issues connected to transparency, 1) the willingness to say, “I don’t know,” and 2) providing all the knowledge available about the issue under discussion. Starting about 2000 GM put together a vibrant KM program. In 2008 KM was alive and well at GM. In the summer of 2009 GM filed for bankruptcy. Do we want to do it? Convening.

Tuesday, May 15th presents a full conference day that begins at 9am sharp with an intellectual and entertaining conversation with one of Silicon Valley’s most well-connected investors, Ron Conway of SV Angels. The Soho Skylight, awaiting its incarnation as site for the 7th annual CM Summit. Day one’s sponsor spotlight is Luminate.

Wayne Turmel, who writes the Connected Manager column for Management Issues suggests wording your question on this topic , this way: What has been your experience working as part of a remote team? Does their tongue drip with venom when discussion firewalls and connection speeds?). Handily, there are questions that can help.

Seeing the connection between computers and learning via that job, I designed my own major in college, and with the guidance of Hugh Mehan and Jim Levin learned a lot about what constituted good research. Even before working, I had some great teachers, and then many folks have helped shape me through my job experience. meta-learning

Like most organizations adapting to the networked society, the college is trying to balance its existing hierarchies (there are many) with the impact of ubiquitous connectivity & pervasive proximity. I really enjoyed my visit to Algonquin College in Ottawa today. had expected more mid-career students. It’s perpetual Beta.

How can we prepare students, staff and faculty for a world where we are simultaneously connected, mobile, and global; while conversely contractual, part-time, and local? In this “network era”, work is learning and learning is the work, but what does that mean for traditional education and our continuing professional development?

prefer simpler tools that force me to think and connect by myself. I started Friday’s Finds three years ago , in an attempt to make my finds on Twitter more explicit. had been using Twitter actively for over a year at this time and realized that I was not making much sense of it. That’s about it. Friday's Finds

 Later they added features that made it easier to find real friends to connect to and I got more involved. According to the Forbes list of Fast Tech 25 : their annual list of growth kings, the current champion is LinkedIn. Its revenue rose 115% over the last 12 months and is accelerating. Its shares are up 144% since its IPO a year ago.

Well funded and connected ‘task management for teams’ firm Asana could make waves through their Facebook roots, quality code and cultural fit

Many of them argued that, though coworking spaces have a social element and stress togetherness and connection, the fact that the user sets their own level of contact, as opposed to having interactions dictated by a boss, means coworking provides a good balance of interaction and alone time for introverts. Introverts need interaction, too.

started the conversation by mentioning the direct connection between PKM and the chapter on Literacy Re-discovered : Things to remember: Having somewhere to write like a blog or Twitter makes you more aware of what is happening around you. During our PKM Workshop this week, we discussed the books we would recommend to others.

To call attention to global warming) Be willing to fail, to learn Connect on a human level. Principles for turning ideas into reality: Look - keep your eyes open; attach stories to what you see. Use the eyes of a child; look up; be curious Be wiling to do champions' work - it's lonely - use the time to practice and become great. Share It!

Also being streamed live via Corenet Global Connect. I am sitting in the front row of the General Session - speaker having trouble with her teleprompter - now she is on a roll, describing CRE2020, the major research initiative. Panel discussion being led by Mark Gorman. will update as the program unfolds. Will it exist? Share It!

The subject lines typically proclaim: “ Connected in (insert location here): We Need You!! Not only is this a pet peeve of mine and lots of other very well connected people on LinkedIn, it’s a violation of the End User License Agreement (EULA): available here. Ok, we’re to my Top 3 Annoying Behaviors of People on LinkedIn.

Connected world: the consumer technology revolution Connected Consumer Market Overview, Q2 2010 12 tech leaders’ resolutions for 2012. I have often wondered why we have not seen a newer, more mobile and more touch-centric descendant of Adobe’s portable document format, popularly known by its acronym – PDF.

All those informal networks became hyper-connected. Training is only 5% of organizational learning , but for a long time this small slice has been the primary focus of most Learning & Development (L&D) departments. The other 95% was just taken care of by the informal networks in the organization. Then a funny thing happened.

Video collaboration offers sophisticated and seamless mobile access, on-demand connection and clear HD quality so students and teachers can create classrooms anytime, anywhere. With Polycom’s video collaboration tools, educators can manage, monitor and deliver video content, work together across platforms, and connect across networks.

My blog keeps me connected. My blog has allowed me to connect to people all over the world. I guess I could be described as a hardcore blogger, as I’ve been writing here for over eight years. So I’m going to respond to Hugh MacLeod’s question about the importance of blogging to me. That was a very good thing!

My blog  keeps me connected. My blog has allowed me to connect to people all over the world. I guess I could be described as a hardcore blogger, as I’ve been writing here for over eight years. So I’m going to respond to Hugh MacLeod’s question about the importance of blogging to me. That was a very good thing!

Pebble uses bluetooth connectivity to access the iPhone’s native capabilities, and then displays data, apps, and services on its high-resolution e-paper screen. Clearly Pebble has won – both financially, as well as in the court of public opinion. all sounded reasonable, but not enough. Here’s why. What do you all think?

Expert Connect™ enables cross-departmental collaboration for Customer Service and Support, IT, HR and Sales and Marketing to ensure accurate and efficient customer communications across channels – e-mail, community, chat, Knowledgebase and social media. Here is a sample Expert Connect screen. The same principal operates here.

have really made an effort to build connections with this department and have already taught classes for four of the faculty members in the anthro department and have a session lined up in the research methods class in the Fall. At a time when I need them most, I have the least ability to connect. didn’t leave for a promotion.

You can see how you’re connected to John.  Did you know that introductions are proven to be more effective than cold calls?  When you’re making cold calls, you’re calling someone you don’t know, hoping to get their attention long enough to listen to what you have to say.  LinkedIn makes it easy to request introductions.

The theme of this new release is "cloud connected content" - which is their way of saying that there are many cloud apps out there for file sharing, and there are bunch of enterprise content management platforms that do the back end work. They also plan to expand this connection to include the proliferation of mobile apps.

Fast internet connections mean fewer of us need to go to the office, for example. The web, one expert recently argued, is transforming all our public spaces into coffee shops. Where do we end up instead? Coffee shop like environments. Universities? Online education is pushing them the same way. Absolutely. ” she concludes.

The Internet changes the patterns of connectivity. All human systems are connected and connected systems cannot be understood in terms of isolated parts. Esko Kilpi made a series of tweets today that I wanted to collect in a single post: Unlike mechanical systems, human systems thrive on variety and diversity.

see connections to my process consulting work. Rawn Shah has (another good) article on his Forbes.com blog, this time on How To Move Away from the Industrial Age Company Model. While he is focused on social business , his comments remind me of things I see in knowledge management and continuous improvement projects.

Blogging and connecting led to Google Analytics, Delicious, Flickr, Slideshare, Twitter, and now Google Plus. “Chance favours the connected mind”, says Steven Johnson. Being connected creates enhanced serendipity. did not ask my organization, I just did it. Serendipity does not map to set goals or plans. Tweet.

You have to break connections to make room for your new ideas. Here are some of the observations and insights that were shared  via Twitter  this past week. Quote via @karlpro. “@charlesjennings: Keynote at  # AITD2012 classic quote of the day: “ The toothpaste is out of the tube ” re: social media in the workplace.”

Connecting to an internal social network to connect online & ask questions. Good practices can be summed up with three key lessons, I later wrote in new hire emergent practices : Connect People. Connect with Social Media (less hierarchical than other forms of communication). Start the process as early as possible.

” “What designers and IAs do is find those connections across the work stream that is going to be the experience in the design. Show Time: 29 minutes 29 seconds. Download mp3 (audio only) Download m4a (with visuals, requires iTunes, Quicktime, or similar). iTunes. That’s what everyone is trying to do.

Maybe a connection to Instapaper or Evernote that I could sync with mobile devices? Feedly sits in the browser on Windows or MacOS, and I can use it on my smartphone (iOS and Android), so long as I am connected to the 'net. A reader of my blog asked me to update my thoughts on what I'd like to see in a news reader today. Navigation.

Individuals need to take control of their learning in a world where they are simultaneously connected, mobile, and global; while conversely contractual, part-time, and local. When times were tough, training departments slashed budgets by replacing face-to-face instruction with online reading. It didn’t work. Jay Cross. Tweet.

Nearly everyone plans on using that smartphone to connect with friends at the show, as well as to record, share, and amplify the experience they are having while at the event. But I also like to take a minute here or there to connect to the people I love, or who follow me, and share with them my passions and my excitement. ”).

Soren Gordhamer has an article at Mashable on How to Stay Focused in a World of Distractions : In our connected world, it is easy to think that the more information we have the better our chances of success. While more information can be helpful for, say, logical problem-solving, it is often useless when it comes to innovation. Pay attention.

The next day when I arrived at work, I went onto LinkedIn to make sure I sent a personal note to everyone I had connected with the night before. There wasn’t any contact on his profile either, but we were connected to I sent him a message asking him to connect for a follow up meeting. He said “Great! Are you on LinkedIn?

So I proposed to the funders that we begin experimenting with face-to-face conversations, what we're calling "Connecting Coffees." What it made me realize (again) is how hungry we all are for opportunities to connect in the real world. We want connection and we need to support this where ever we can. .

This online workshop on adapting to the networked world of work includes tools, tips & techniques from two facilitators who have been connecting, communicating and collaborating online for over fifteen years. The workshop is for anyone looking to  understand the digital reality of the connected economy. Registration Link. Tweet.

Counter to what many believe about Washington, where money and lobbying connections are presumed to always win the day, “Fact-based arguments matter, a lot,” one senior policymaker told me. A few weeks ago I ventured to our nation’s capital to steep in its culture a bit, and get some first hand reporting done for the book.

Counter to what many believe about Washington, where money and lobbying connections are presumed to always win the day, “Fact-based arguments matter, a lot,” one senior policymaker told me. A few weeks ago I ventured to our nation’s capital to steep in its culture a bit, and get some first hand reporting done for the book.

Fifth, and most important, the leader of the knowledge management effort, Dave Baildon, was well connected and well respected in the organization. Knowledge management has been around for over twenty years now. still feel it was the precursor to enterprise 2.0 and social business. It had its own precursors like performance support.

The only way to engage will be through crowds, who collectively focus attention, aggregating the slivers of distributed attention into a meaningful connection. Yesterday I ran Getting Results From Crowds and Crowd Business Models workshops in Sydney, the first in a global series of crowdsourcing workshops.

TIBCO has been a leader in making the digital world connect for quite some time.    So when they turned to social business software connectivity was naturally a sweet spot for them. If you need to get work done, then you need to have all the resources together and connected. Is About the Technology). had HTML5. 

Automated tellers have replaced thousands of bank clerks but even more advanced jobs are getting automated as we connect the world with computers. Exception-handling is becoming more important in the networked workplace as standardized work provides no competitive advantage in a hyper-connected economy. Work is changing. Conclusion.

Novell Data Synchronizer handles mobile connections and third party integration such as CRM systems. The first question I had was the relationship between GroupWise, Pulse and Teaming. The answer allowed Kari to explain how they have regrouped their collaboration product line. to really work. It comes with both GroupWise and Vibe. 

This is activity-based and expands upon the meaningfulness by connecting it to the community. It’s come up in a couple of ways how my (in progress) activity-based framework for learning is related to other models, e.g. performance-based learning. I’ll try to sort them out. Better engagement and learning outcomes are the big win.

Il s’agit donc d’une technologie car elle repose sur l’Internet des interactions, et elle est « sociale » car elle repose sur les réseaux et les connections entre les individus. [.] Je suis enchanté de faire une présentation à Paris 3 mai avec Boostzone Institute. Je vais parler du “Crowdsourcing”. Jeudi 3 Mai de 8h45 à 10h45, Paris 8ème.

Personal tools lead to practical business Connected world: the consumer technology revolution Millennials in the enterprise, part 1: strategies for supporting the new digital workforce. The number of freelancers is on the rise with estimates of their eventual numbers ranging from more than 50 percent of the U.S. workforce by 2020 to 1.3

Each person would have knowledge artefacts that could be connected to the enterprise but not uniquely owned by it. When I wrote that the only knowledge that can be managed is our own , I wanted to highlight that command & control methods do not work well in this network era that is replacing the industrial/information era. Tweet.

The integration can be extended beyond simple connections to create mashups with tools like Salesforce.com. I have covered eXo before (see Benjamin Mestrallet, eXo CEO, Looks at the Social Enterprise ). Recently, I had a chance to speak with Benjamin again about their latest offering. Here is a sample home page screen. eXo Platform 3.0

To me, the most energizing questions are those that involve people's values, hopes and ideals--questions that relate to something that's larger than them where they can connect and contribute. People don't have a lot of energy around questions that are about removing pain.".                                 --Verna Allee. Follow the energy.

The best example of how operational strategy works is the way Southwest Airlines designed and implemented its entire business model to support its basic strategy of being a short-haul, low-cost, point-to-point airline connecting mid-size cities (drawn from the Porter article). Oxymoron (from the Greek ????????, from “ What is Strategy?

Driven by BYOD, companies are also following consumer app trends and offering API portals where developers can find out which APIs are available in the enterprise, how to connect to them, and how to establish contracts that include quotas, costs and service levels. The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement has gained unstoppable momentum.

Trend 4: Adaptive lifelong learning the norm -” Ten years from now, relevant work skills will be shaped by the continued rise in global connectivity, smart technology and new media, among several other drivers. Image: Gapingvoid.com. New media literacy. Virtual collaboration. Cognitive load management. Novel and adaptive thinking.

We connected on this topic many years ago.] Joe Ely has a brief meditation on cycles of improvement, The Orbits of PDCA where he says: Yet PDCA happens in concentric circles, widened by longer time intervals. Did our bigger plans work last month? Last quarter? Last year? Over the past five years? Found via Frank Patrick - a long time friend.

The idea first came to me as I realized how many of my clients and colleagues were not as connected as they could be, too often wasting their time on routine things and not building networks that could help them get work done. Tweet Our first  Net Work Literacy session ends this week. There are 24 hours in a day.

IBM Connections Conversations – 3: Analytics + Social. The AppGap posts began toward the end of January 2008.    Here, I am primarily doing product commentaries with a few other things thrown in. Below are the ones for March. There will be more in April. Cisco Extends Its Cloud Collaboration Strategy.    

Make new connections and have new conversations as a way of fertilizing career seeds. . For the past several months, I've been advising  the clients I work with to use a career journal to record and explore their ideas about the work they are doing, what inspires and drives them and what they want to experiment with in their work lives. .

Gerald Kane, a professor at Boston College, suggests this may be because smaller firms can use social tools “as a way of increasing their voice, as a way of connecting with customers.” But are all companies equally engaged in figuring out how to do social? percent. 1,000-5,000 employees: 13.6 percent. 5,000 – 10,000: 13.6 percent.

As the dynamics of how we work change — we’re away from offices, on mobile devices, and often dependent on a mobile broadband connection — the tools to enable easy access and smooth experiences of getting that work done are beginning to pop up. iSimplyConnect targets businesses of about 50 employees or fewer. with No.

True to its philosophy of free and anonymous speech, Chicago simply offered an open connection to its students – plug in anywhere on campus, and start using the net. Lessig knew them well – in the mid 1990s, he taught at both Harvard and the University of Chicago. But they took quite different approaches to doing so.

True to its philosophy of free and anonymous speech, Chicago simply offered an open connection to its students – plug in anywhere on campus, and start using the net. Lessig knew them well – in the mid 1990s, he taught at both Harvard and the University of Chicago. But they took quite different approaches to doing so.

The new People You May Know includes several enhancements designed to make it even easier to find and connect with people in your network: Streamlined user experience. When you do, be sure to clear out people you don’t know, as well as connecting with those you do. highly recommend using it at least once a month.

  The first benefit from social media was increased collaboration and connectivity throughout the organization as well documented by McKinsey. Here is a useful idea for taking advantage of the transparency within social media. This is exactly what NetBase is doing through its reseller relationship and collaboration with SAP. 

Approaches to breaking these barriers range from the numerous, external integrations of Tibco Tibbr to our all-in-one system, Mindjet Connect. And Mindjet has a version of Connect that runs entirely on-premise on top of SharePoint. Effective teamwork is one of the most critical keys to success. Collaboration equals integration.

have no other connection to the research, other than doing the survey myself and being interested in the results. There is a new research survey out there on Critical Chain Project Management implementations. If you have ever participated in or run a CCPM implementation, please go take the survey. The survey takes approximately 20 minutes.

Now workspace  locating app LiquidSpace   is getting involved in the trend, partnering with three Bay Area cities to connect underutilized public spaces with laptop-toting independent workers. The aims of the partnership are twofold. The second goal of the program is environmental. Image courtesy of Flickr user San Jose Library.

The first is the average number of connections you need to join two random people in a network. That number can be surprisingly small, even in a very big network; for example, you can connect two random Facebook users, on average, with a chain that’s less than five friends long. John Medina” via @chriscognito. Friday's Finds

Integration across the enterprise between old school enterprise apps and new school social ones is the key to creating the connected enterprise. In February 2012, Scribe Software surveyed 300 business leaders and channel partners to uncover opportunities and challenges associated with customer data integration.    

Having close associates is a great thing, of course, but King and Ockels explain that those we know less well offer different but also important benefits: Weak ties generally connect people who move in different social or business circles. Why would you want a weak tie to a potential collaborator or client when you can have a strong one?

Video conferencing is becoming increasingly mobile: Participants are no longer required to sit in a big telepresence room to connect with coworkers or partners or to collaborate on projects. Which is why FuzeBox is coming out with a new iPad app that is optimized for the device’s new Retina display and 4G wireless connectivity.

Businesses are under pressure to enable collaboration beyond the corporate firewall as workers increasingly need to connect with remote colleagues as well as business partners, suppliers and consultants. A recent CIO Magazine article on "collaboration" had me scratching my head as to how it was talking about collaboration.

Shifting away from a focus on place of work and number of hours worked toward more virtual and mobile connections with workers. How can we make it easier to connect with co-workers who are not at your workplace? Expanding reach to be more global, as the Internet seeps into all aspects of business. require more time than they are worth?

Your Connections: . Connect with people you know and that make sense to network with.  You may not want to connect with everyone who sends you an invitation.  You’ll also receive an email notification that someone has invited you to connect. Security and social media have been in the news lately. 

This is a story you tell to build connection to your audience by showing them you are just like them in some way. We find it far easier to build a relationship and a connection with people if we perceive them to be like us. One of the story types we believe you need to be able to tell is the "I'm like you story". Changing behaviour

The idea is to make a more coherent experience, take it online so information is findable (no longer dies), connect people (better way to sense-make and become engaged), and to have ambient awareness (a more adaptable and agile organisation). “Many of the things we hated about email will be MULTIPLIED, not solved by stream-overload.

When it comes building a distributed company, some bosses do it to demonstrate the usefulness or their product , many to get the best talent and some simply because they want to live somewhere they can surf. But that wasn’t why the company got its start as a distributed team. At first, they simply lacked an office. Talent. ” Tools.

is a service that connects emerging artists with audiences through video. Here are my notes and photos of the second of two lake cruises with BAMM.tv during SXSW 2012. In this case the bands are Lee Kock and Hollis Brown. wrote about BAMM.tv in an earlier post. Lee Kock is an excellent solo singer songwriter.   They are from Queens.

Technology connects people. Tweet There are few best practices for the network era workplace, but definitely many next practices to be developed. good place to start is with an integrative performance framework that puts formal training and education where they belong: focused on the appropriate 5%. It is a fluid, holistic, process.

Crucially, it cannot do this on its own – the formal world of research and the informal world of social media exchanges need to connect. I had a fantastic time at the AIIM conference in San Francisco last week, and Clay Shirky’s keynote was one of the highlights. Underneath this is another emerging trend.

is a service that connects emerging artists with audiences through video. Here are my notes and photos of the first of two lake cruises with  BAMM.tv  during  SXSW 2012. In this case the bands are Soft Swells and Leah Siegal who fronts for Firehorse. wrote about them in my last post. She sang solo on the cruise.

connects these emerging artists with global audiences in several ways. I was fortunately to participate in two lake cruises with BAMM.tv during SXSW 2012. Each one featured two different bands and I will be covering these cruises in my following two posts.    In this post I want to cover BAMM.tv He is the middle below.

Rather I am hoping to steep in the culture of the place, make a number of new connections, and perhaps discover a bit more about how this unique institution called “the Federal Government” really works. Next week I travel to Washington DC. I’m way behind on my writing about my reading, so to speak.

Rather I am hoping to steep in the culture of the place, make a number of new connections, and perhaps discover a bit more about how this unique institution called “the Federal Government” really works. Next week I travel to Washington DC. I’m way behind on my writing about my reading, so to speak.

Teens and young adults brought up from childhood with a continuous connection to each other and to information will be nimble, quick-acting multitaskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and who approach problems in a different way from their elders, according to a new survey of technology experts." USA Mobile

Knowledge – connecting information to experience (know what, know who, know how). Tweet Cristina Milos recently tweeted  that; “ Curating is different from aggregating information. That is why I am not a fan of Paperli or Scoopit.” But what value do they really provide, aside from another platform to sell user data or advertising?

gave two keynotes at the event on subsequent days, on How to Lock-in Your Clients , and Success in a Connected World , which drew on my connected world visual framework. will write more later on the quite specific topic of Success in a Connected World for Financial Advisors. This is what I suggested: WHAT TO TWEET. Old news.

As a disclosure I have no business connection with this firm except that I have been a close personal of the owner, Don Lesser, for years and have written about his food writing on this blog before. Google Analytics is a popular free tool from Google that provides a wealth of information about the visitors to your website. Cost: $99.  

So I can remain connected to the virtual world and even talk to people with Skype. Here is a break from my SXSW notes before going on to music starting this Friday. There will be more. will be spending the month of April on the Greek Island of Samos , a mile off the Turkish coast.   It was the house his wife grew up in.