Over the years, Facebook has added new advertising products based on the unique identity, interest, and relationship data it owns: Advertisers can incorporate the fact that a friend of a friend “likes” a product, for example. My piece wasn’t negative, per se, its intention was to be thoughtful. What Just Happened?!

Meanwhile, a recent study suggested that while remote work boosted productivity on creative tasks, it generally reduced it for boring, rote activities. Is remote work only for a select few? Take Hertz’s “Journey to Home” program as an example. In Oklahoma City, a lot more call centers are coming in. Treat it as such.

Both tools are freely available to all existing customers as of today, as well as those using the free version of the product. Salesforce, executive John Wookey told GigaOM earlier this year, is betting on social , envisioning a future where not just communication tools get a social rethink, but nearly every area of business.

Many companies have recognized the value of involved customers and external business partners in their business decision, rather it be comprehensive crowd sourcing or simple incremental improvements to a specific product. Of course mobile is huge and will transform many things from how you purchase products to knowledge capture and sharing.

The company is providing developer kits so anyone can create applications on top of the device, already suggesting a number of applications : We envision a day in the near future when our motion control technology will be used in most consumer products – not just computers, but cars, appliances, medical devices, light switches and more.

Even in a pre-internet world of cubicles, carbon copies and universally co-located teams, sales folks were the original remote employees, often living a road warrior lifestyle that saw them roving from the office to meet with clients and pitch products. “When we looked at the market, all the investment in the space has been in CRM.

First off, it should be noted that the report includes both consumer social products like LinkedIn and Facebook used for business purposes and social tools geared specifically for organizations under the banner ‘enterprise social’ So what are the details? We are not suggesting that this is some sort of panacea.”.

The relationship between the brand and its customer has to be meaningful and consistent (therefore creating permission to extract a premium and offer new products and services). It takes an ongoing service relationship for such engagement to occur… More on the product strength of the Big Five here.

With the London Olympics just a few months away, there’s the usual flurry of stories detailing frenzied preparation by organizers, the host city, the athletes and security forces. But this year there’s one other great wave of pre-Olympics news items breaking across Britain’s media—surprisingly controversial telecommuting stories.

Early-stage companies, particularly in the tech sector, have a long-standing mythology of (usually young and personally unencumbered) teams sleeping under their desks to get products to launch, with many wearing the hothouse atmosphere and extreme hours as a badge of honor. And the start-up scene is home to its fair share. Do you agree?

Through live simulations, vague textual use case descriptions are strengthened and quickly understood, saving endless hours of design time and confusion between engineering and product teams. I have known about AppFusions for some time and respect the vision of their leader Ellen Feaheny. iRise Simulations for Confluence.    

It’s a channel for capability to reach across limitations of chronology and geography, and make us more productive. But just because everyone has one, what does it mean ? I think the implications are broader, but here I want to talk specifically about work and learning. By broadening our understanding of how we work and learn. And more.

It will lead to a more happy and productive workforce. In the age of social business and collaboration it is generally accepted by those who think seriously about management in the 21 st century that top down micro-managing is a useless relic of the industrial age. It is nice to see another study confirming this.    

GM was brought down by a flawed strategy, but an organization’s strategy is clearly a product of the knowledge that exists within its walls. Stayer had received an offer from a food-processing company to buy large quantities of product on a regular basis. Starting about 2000 GM put together a vibrant KM program. Do we want to do it?

Note: Nine years ago I was warning how production jobs were leaving Canada and getting outsourced. One of my earlier blog posts is still online, which I stumbled upon this week, much to my surprise. Deep conversations about R&D in this Province never materialized though. It was easier than trying to manage a blog by myself. Technology

“Social networks are expanded, isolation is reduced and productivity increased – if not quite as markedly as the other two groups,” writes Carsten Foertsch of employee members in DeskMag. Coworking, originally a movement dominated by freelancers and entrepreneurs, is increasingly attracting the attention of larger companies.

We knew they were only products of our imagination. We did not have Xbox and computer games when I grew up in the 50s in New Orleans. was a city kid; we played baseball in front of my house. The intersection provided our asphalt infield and the opposing street corners contained our bases. The sounds of “I shot you first.”    

After a deep focus on content, we move to the world of analytics with Amy Chang , Head of Product for Google Analytics, who will show and tell the Next Generation of Measurement. The Soho Skylight, awaiting its incarnation as site for the 7th annual CM Summit. Day one’s sponsor spotlight is Luminate.

In the collaborative, social enterprise this is counter-productive. In The Paradox of Performance Pay , Allan Hawke shows how it has clearly led to decreases in organizational performance. It’s wrong to focus only on individuals or groups, because most opportunities for improvement involve systems, processes and technology.

And anyone who has ever worked with a colleague half-a-world away knows of the occasional necessity of late night calls to bridge time differences, but besides knowing how to brew yourself a strong cup of coffee and operate your alarm clock, is there anything you can do to make working across many time zones less painful and more productive?

75 percent of Facebook users have “Liked” a brand, and 53 percent of Twitter users have recommended companies or products. Awareness has released an interesting free report, 3 Keys to Influence: Understanding and Leveraging Social Capital. It began with some useful statistics: 90 percent of all purchases are subject to social influence.

According to Jonathan Rochelle, group product manager for collaboration apps (with whom I spoke on Tuesday), you can see the evidence of Google’s maturity in recent product launches such as Google Drive and BigQuery. Whatever it is, it’s not enterprise IT. Or is it? Where does it live and what should it cost?

If you are a startup in stealth mode, with a product, or just think you are all that and bag of chips, and you want in on the stage time and Sequoia session, then get busy and apply today ! Every year at our Structure conference, we host a Launchpad for startups. Plus, we’ll have cookies. And who doesn’t like cookies?

Many kudos to them, but of course all faults of the end product remain with the author ;). I was talking today with an organization that has mentoring as a very core feature of their culture, and it got me reflecting on the fantastic luck I’ve had in my career. They also lived what great student development was. meta-learning

” As you can tell, Mayer is unusually confident about sharing stats on his product’s usage. Forwards and CCs are the mechanisms that make email suitable for many-party conversations. Enter Squadmail , which has one of those ideas that seems quite obvious in retrospect: shared, cross-client email folders for collaboration.

“There’s people at the bottom of the market that have products like Do.com , online to-do lists, and they’re useful but they don’t have automation. So what sets this product apart from other collaboration tools and allows it to target the “big fat middle”? They don’t have analytics.

Insight 4: IP governance can drive crowd product development. Two of the topics were Future of Intellectual Property and Future of Product Development and Innovation. Those that can establish (preferably lightweight) IP governance processes have a solid foundation for using crowds successfully for product development and innovation.

And of course there’s Facebook, which has gone so far as to call its new products “Featured Stories” (as opposed to “Ads” – which is what they are.) It’s all over the news these days: Display advertising is dead. Or put more accurately, the world of “boxes and rectangles” is dead. Cough.

Study after study shows that flexible work arrangements increase productivity and make for happier employees. But at the same time study after study reveals middle managers resist the idea as undermining their control and burdening them with additional responsibilities. Encourage them to tell you how it will solve their business challenges.

Production design by CJ Ware ( www.cjbuilt.com ). May 2012. Do you think your work is strategic, or could be? Our feature article this month, “ Is Operational Strategy an Oxymoron (Part Two)? continues to explore what it means to have a strategic impact. This second article in the current series isn’t the end of the story, by any means.

Once upon a time information technology was essentially an accounting resource; its early use in business was to keep track of financial expenditures and, occasionally, to record product inventories and sales. Jim Ware. An “Oxymoron” (from the Greek ????????, sharp dull") is of course a figure of speech that is self-contradictory. Not really.

“Brick and mortar companies in almost every industry are now having to differentiate their own products through software,” he says, offering the automobile industry as an example. Software, Marc Andreessen declared last summer, is eating the world. And president Jay Simons feels they’re just getting started.

As Will Wright said, “tuning is 9/10ths of the work”  Now that’s for a commercially viable game, but really, that’s a substantial realization compared to how complex the programming and media production is. Have ever 3 words ever sold more unnecessary product in human history?). Over 30, actually, off and on.

Collaboration Will Drive the Next Wave of Productivity Gains – via @brianinroma. But as with the technology of the 1980s and 1990s, the ability of these technologies to drive real productivity growth will depend on whether or not they are accompanied by thoughtful changes in the way work is done. That’s about it.

 I have always been a fan of Apple products. 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. would likely have untold richness if I still had that stock.

don’t fight my introverted habits on those days as that would adversely affect my productivity. Traditional business culture, with its emphasis on networking, meetings and pitching, doesn’t generally favor introverts. Is remote working the solution to the problem? Ideal, that is, until too much of a good thing becomes a bad thing.

I’ve been thinking of this a lot lately in light of the fact that we recently hired an instructional designer to ramp up our production of learning objects. So many of us struggle with determining priorities in teaching. Few of us have a workload that would allow us to do everything we would like to do. But can we? model better?

Important part of consumer IT is that users/consumers figure out what to do with the products after they come on the market. Live blogging the Corenet Workplace Community: What's the Future? Panel comments - focus on technologies that enable collaboration; depends on managment - rely on results, not activities. Technology helps. Share It!

Sell an online meeting product? First, the one they sell – a product to help professionals easily log where all their minutes go. But they also built a second sister product dubbed Co-op which is available free online (though presumably will be of more limited use without it’s paid-for sibling). Tools. ” Talent.

Many of the world’s most innovative education centers already depend on Polycom® RealPresence® Mobile to improve reach, interactivity and productivity. Today’s video technology makes education more flexible, rich and accessible than ever before. www.PolycomMovement.com/gom1

  Here, I am primarily doing product commentaries with a few other things thrown in. The AppGap posts began toward the end of January 2008.  Below are the ones for April. There will be more in May. Provides Online Exposure and Distribution for Emerging Bands. Alfresco Brings its Open Source Document Management to the Cloud.

But what about the fundamental machine of production: you? The Gemba Academy hosted a webinar with Dan Markovitz of TimeBack Management around the topic of his new book, A Factory of One. The book is about applying lean principles to your worklife (and personal) performance. The discussion during the webinar sounded very familiar.

We all know that some personality types find that the lack of structure when telecommuting hobbles their productivity. On the uncreative tasks, people were 6 percent to 10 percent less productive outside the lab. The fall-off was steepest among the least productive third of workers. Now a new study by economist E.

An effective freemium go-to-market effort depends on product design, distribution and conversion. Freemium product design . The key metric of freemium product design is active users. The data your users generate will drive product management and usability decisions, which in turn will drive conversion and revenue.

I’ve strived to create an environment of happy, productive people who are excited to show up to work in the morning (or afternoon, as appropriate!). I’ve Now, when a new hire starts at Stripe, we put a lot of work into helping her acclimatize and become as happy, productive and effective as possible. Everyone gets a veto.

Ever since the Pebble watch became an cause célèbre in tech circles for its kickass Kickstarter moves  (it’s raised almost $7mm dollars and counting), something’s been nagging me about the company and its product. Clearly Pebble has won – both financially, as well as in the court of public opinion. Here’s why.

The second major effort is the introduction of an internal product fro the enterprise. But this is a product that is integrated with the externally facing one. I have written Moxie before see ( Moxie Provides a Social Workspace Through Employees Spaces ). Recently I spoke with their CEO, Tom Kelly, about their latest offering.

And I think the finished product is lovely. Yesterday was my one-year anniversary of working at Portland State. I’d wanted to write a post yesterday reflecting on it, but I was driving three hours (to Bend, OR) to give a four-hour preconference. didn’t leave for a promotion. left because I was looking for new challenges. Yikes.

Previously the product was free to all users, but having decided against adding advertising, Wiggio has landed on this route to monetization. ” Lampert explained Wiggio uses a powerful testing technique to ensure the product is incredibly easy to use – they give it to fourth graders. Asana has beautiful task management.

” Of course, not every company can take advantage of this sort of productivity-boosting quasi-anarchy, Geraci points out. When we spoke to GitHub’s Chris Wanstrath recently about how the company manages its partially remote team, he mentioned something about their setup that had nothing to do with telecommuters.

There is an emphasis on integration with other productivity apps. They have to be tied together for real productivity. Alfresco started in 2005 and has been offering open enterprise content management (ECM) to an increasing number of clients to where they are now the largest open source content management company in the world.

Sundar Pichai, SVP, Chrome and Apps, Google (left) and Scott Johnston, Group Product Manager, Google (right). However, the key differentiation point for Google Drive is the tight integration with Google’s productivity apps and other apps that are using Google’s SDK to build the Drive into their own cloud offerings.

Online shopping, likewise, may transform retail stores into relaxing spaces to ogle products, pick up goods and, of course, down some caffeine. The web, one expert recently argued, is transforming all our public spaces into coffee shops. Fast internet connections mean fewer of us need to go to the office, for example. Universities?

Deutsche Bank notes that the issue of employees taking data and devices outside of corporate firewalls (or leaving them on airplanes) is one management headache that is getting a lot of attention and products, but the concept of Stealth IT is still ripe for new businesses and startups. security) sometimes for less good reasons (i.e.

Maybe I’m wrong…I’m just assuming these products have a character limit…but I know they allow for little formatting…and certainly don’t have the UX of Google+. Why do I like Google+. …cause I can make little or big email-like posts and @mention people…and the interface is so clean and simple.

Is this slightly chaotic diversity of products a good thing? Do we need a war of attrition where one existing collaboration product fights its way to undisputed king-of-the-jungle status? His perspective – we’re still waiting for a breakout collaboration product, and it should look like “WordPress for the enterprise.

In terms of the second factor, research has shown that diverse groups are often more creative, innovative, and productive than homogenous groups. Conversation is a topic I often present about. On those occasions I am frequently asked, “Do you consider on-line discussion forums conversation?” I usually fumble and hedge my answer.

In the post, Shane Mac, the director of product at local jobs marketplace Zaarly , announces that he has been converted from his earlier belief in remote work and argues strongly for co-located teams for startups. One such remote work doubter just proclaimed his skepticism loudly on VentureBeat. Passion in person is contagious.

The path to productivity is not a new assistant or PM software. MITSMR – 54% of 4,000+ senior managers favor new business models over new products & services for future competitive advantage. Here are some of the observations and insights that were shared  via Twitter  this past week. Quote via @karlpro. ” by @AnneBB.

The offer was for Facebook’s advertising products – I could offer a free $100 credit to all my clients if I signed up for Facebook advertising myself. I’m a bit behind on my snail mail, so to procrastinate from writing anything useful on the book, I went through a pile that’s accumulated over the past week.

Reno Collective is full of enthusiastic people who fill a big gap for us in terms of understanding journalism as both process and product independent of a corporate news institution,” said Donica Mensing, a professor at RSJ. But with frustration comes creativity, as initiatives of all sorts attempt to dream up a better way.

This includes all information and visual products, from creative writing, to photography and video, to radiological images. Work is changing. The nature of work is changing in our increasingly networked economy. What was considered good, dependable work in the 20th century is now getting automated or outsourced. Known Problems and Exceptions.

I have written about Novell products before, including Novell Pulse and Novell Teaming , and was pleased to recently speak with Kari Woolf, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Novell GroupWise and Dean Lythgoe, Director, Product Management, Novell Collaboration Solutions. to really work. It comes with both GroupWise and Vibe. 

That’s the point of having products of activities, at least reflection , so it sounds very much is in synergy. This This also appears to be the focus of  outcomes-based learning ,  which also emphasizes actual production, but while touting constructivism seems to end up being more a tool of the status quo. design meta-learning

… If we start to look at companies as complex systems instead of machines, we can start to design and manage them for productivity instead of continuously hovering on the edge of collapse. Gray writes: Historically, we have thought of companies as machines, and we have designed them like we design machines. And what are they ignoring?

Two additional components of the model around the activities were content and then products coupled with reflection. It was suggested that activities should generate products, such as solutions to problems, proposals for action, and more. If the product itself is not a reflection, there should be one as well, a reflection.

Each of those would be activities with deliverables or products, and evaluation or reflection. The products of activities from individuals might feed into a group project, or vice-versa as well. I’ve been reflecting on the new learning model I proposed earlier , and want to share some elaborations with you.

So I politely ask on what basis they’d like to be recommended for since I’ve never experienced their product or service. I love recommendations. They provide 3rd party testimonial proof that your LinkedIn profile is peer reviewed and credible.  The worst is when I don’t even know a person. That just shouldn’t happen.

Shortly, this mill, which had been lagging way behind in production, was turning out more work than any other mill in the plant.". How is it that a manager as capable as you can't make this mill turn out what it should?". I don't know," the manager replied. But nothing works. They just won't produce.". Six.". and asked what it meant.

Production design by CJ Ware ( www.cjbuilt.com ). April 2012. What is strategy? What does it mean for a business function to be “strategic”? Those questions have been nagging at me for the past several months, and this month’s Feature Article is a reflection of my recent focus. Please read this month’s article and let me know what you think.

By Jim Ware (with assistance from Paul Carder of Occupiers Journal Limited). Oxymoron (from the Greek ????????, sharp dull"): a figure of speech that is self-contradictory. Common examples include “jumbo shrimp,” “living dead,” and “open secret.”]. To date the participants have all been U.S.-based 1961; link is to description on Amazon.com).

This article, from McKinsey Quarterly , describes how many organizational leaders engage in four specific destructive behaviors that kill their subordinates’ creativity, productivity, and commitment to helping their employers succeed. How Leaders Kill Meaning at Work. How to Stay Ahead of Tomorrow’s Job Market. Learning on the Move. Share It!

Employee productivity improves with each new task that they can accomplish on their favorite toy and a ton of costs can be saved through reduction in paperwork and manual processing in general. The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement has gained unstoppable momentum. They want an attractive user experience tailored to their devices.

Poets sometimes claim that writing within strict formal structures spurs creativity, and parents are told that firm boundaries actually help kids flourish. Freedom may be awesome , but in some areas there clearly is such a thing as too much of it. Is your team being hamstrung by ambiguous roles? Sign up for a free trial.

More than 85 percent  of our deployed Ethernet fabrics are in production — a benchmark no other networking vendor can touch. Every day, billions of transactions pass through Brocade network fabrics as they push high-bandwidth applications to the very edges of the network. And perhaps, best of all, it’s here today. Brocade.

Meanwhile, a few top line thoughts and points: - Page pushes Google+ as a success, citing more than 100 million users, but still doesn’t address the question of whether the service is truly being used organically, rather than as a byproduct of interactions with other Google products. Take that, Apple!

Meanwhile, a fee top line thoughts and points: - Page pushes Google+ as a success, citing more than 100 million users, but still doesn’t address the question of whether the service is truly being used organically, rather than as a byproduct of interactions with other Google products. Take that, Apple!

As we’ve pointed out here on GigaOM previously , virtual working has been kicked about as a way to improve productivity for years, but for some reason, despite regular research results validating the concept , telecommuting’s status as a good idea whose time hasn’t quite come continues. Why is that? Sign up for a free trial.

Adobe Social is a new product within the Adobe Digital Marketing Suite. includes several new features and capabilities, as well as integration with other products in the Digital Marketing Suite. At the recent Adobe Digital Marketing Summit , Adobe made a number of announcements about new capabilities for digital marketers.

As the person who focuses on the core product – the programming on the stage – I just could not pull off both writing a book and creating a pitch-perfect onstage program. Truth is, we’re not going to do the Web 2 Summit this year, and I’m writing this post to explain why. For now, the Web 2 Summit is on hiatus.

As the person who focuses on the core product – the programming on the stage – I just could not pull off both writing a book and creating a pitch-perfect onstage program. Truth is, we’re not going to do the Web 2 Summit this year, and I’m writing this post to explain why. For now, the Web 2 Summit is on hiatus.

More than one in three (36 percent) said they were more productive than when at work. As we reported a few months ago, on February 8th UK telecoms giant O2 sent nearly 3,000 staff based at its Slough office home to telecommute for the day. O2 found : Telecommuting staff saved a £9,000 (currently $14,000 and change) in reduced commuting costs.

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

 In the past companies invested in monetary incentives, usually in the form of free products. Now with the social Web, companies are finding that status and associated privileges are actually more effective that simply providing product rewards. Kevin said that he sees four main reasons. Badgeville is one of these.

Facebook was the product of a Harvard mindset – and probably could never have come from a place like Chicago or Berkeley (where I taught). Early in Lessig’s “ Code v2 ,” which at some point this week I hope to review in full, Lessig compares the early campus networks of two famous educational institutions.

Facebook was the product of a Harvard mindset – and probably could never have come from a place like Chicago or Berkeley (where I taught). Early in Lessig’s “ Code v2 ,” which at some point this week I hope to review in full, Lessig compares the early campus networks of two famous educational institutions.

While the dramatic push to cloud-based collaboration continues, on-premise collaboration products still maintain an important role for enterprises not yet ready to make the transition. Blaine Mathieu is the chief products officer at Mindjet , a provider of collaborative work management solutions. Collaboration equals integration.

Networked workers know more than management does about the company’s own products and services. Tweet. So much for L&D rhetoric about adding value to commoditized learning content. There are no secrets. And whether the news is good or bad, they tell everyone. What’s Hyperlinks subvert hierarchy (Cluetrain #7).

We not only want to support the companies that keep the Bay Area at the forefront of the technology industry, but want to use their unique products and services to support other entrepreneurs and the community as a whole. The aims of the partnership are twofold. The second goal of the program is environmental. Sign up for a free trial.

The Softjoe Collaborativ e delivers engagement solutions, using social and collaborative platforms to deliver internal, external and mixed networks that drive productivity, responsiveness and engagement.  We were doing social business years before the current buzzwords were coined.  

Increasingly, devices like the iPad are enabling those workers to be just as productive anywhere they happen to be. 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. Sign up for a free trial.

recent study done by Stanford researchers in China demonstrated that working remotely makes employees more productive (and profitable), while teleworkers themselves consistently tell those that ask that they love the flexibility or working where they please. But does this rosy picture of remote work extend to managers? Fortune 500 company.

SXSW Notes: Boost your Mobile Workflow with Adobe’s Newest Product. I was pleased to attend SXSW for the first time. Except for the long lines, it exceeded expectations fo both the tech part and the music part. am grateful for  Adobe Acrobat  for enabling me to attend. did go to some of the  Adobe sponsored sessions.

When and where would you prefer to work to be more productive? Tweet In The Learning Workplace , Anne Marie McEwan describes “f our profiles of learning workplaces according to structure, global reach, knowledge type, workstyle and social complexity”: Traditional, Emergent, Networked & Hyper-networked. InternetTime Work

While that used to be ok for a time when we could plan in advance, the increasing turbulence in markets – product cloning happening in weeks, information tsunamis, etc – means that even optimal execution alone isn’t going to be a differentiator. The real game is going to come from tapping into the power of your people.

Since Tibbr’s launch Salesforce.com’s Chatter product has developed its activity stream capabilities, and in fact now allows process steps to be taken from within the Chatter stream. was particularly interested in talking with them about Yammer’s shift to activity streams. Collaboration Enterprise 2.0

One theme here is for an Activity stream to have the management, organisational, and productivity features that we see in email clients. “Many of the things we hated about email will be MULTIPLIED, not solved by stream-overload. People say email is not the problem, it’s how people mis-use it. The funniest part is “2.0

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. We think that makes better products. ” But what doesn’t change is the goal – a great product. Talent.

… In summary, business productivity and knowledge inhabits complex networks. Rather, praxis and phronesis achieve social comprehension, knowledge cohesion, leadership maturity, new capabilities, productivity, growth, business prosperity and optimal outcomes overall. Image: Mimi and Eunice. Paper doesn’t scale. The Net scales.

“The basic idea is very, very simple,” says Pielsticker, boiling down his product to its essence. Business cards, the L.A. Times, recently reported, are rapidly going out of fashion. How do I get everything from my office address to my Twitter handle into your Outlook address book, gmail contacts or BlackBerry? ’ email.