I’d like to talk specifics a bit. I’m sure there will be some readers at B&A who aren’t gamers, and probably even more who haven’t played Halo —so my apologies to those folks— but… describe in some detail exactly what you contributed to the finished product. Do these modes then inform the IA of the shell? MORE >>

Four IBMers, Joan M. DiMicco, David R. Millen, Werner Geyer, Casey Dugan recently published , Research on the Use of Social Software in the Workplace. It focused on their Beehive social networking website behind IBM ’ s firewall. briefly mentioned BeeHive as part of Looking Closely at Lotus Connections. The found that within a company intranet ? MORE >>

There have been many metaphors for the conversations that happen on blogs with my favorite being blog as front porch , originally (to me) articulated by Brandon Wirtz. This has been extended any number of directions. usually see Lilia , Ton or Jim doing something with the idea. Increasingly, they are happening online. Open your ears and listen MORE >>

Back in January 2008, I suggested that people Stop Reading and instead Skim Dive Skim. It received some passionate replies - although not quite what I expected. So while you may be a reader, likely a lot of the people you are writing for are skimmers. can't say that I'm all that great at this, but here are some things I try to do. MORE >>

i noticed that big consulting firms are jumping on bandwagon 2.0. as i've said before, free-agents and natural enterprises are better. the upstart independents and small consultancies have clayton christensen's disruptive sword MORE >>