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WEB WORKER DAILY | WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012 Remote work doesn’t have to be glamorous to be effective The Future of Work Platforms: An Overview The Future of Workplaces Personal tools lead to practical business. Is remote work only for a select few? What demographic data we do have on the phenomenon from the Telework Research Network has found existing telecommuters tend to be older, well paid and highly educated professionals. -
HAROLD JARCHE | WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012 It’s all about networks Workers do have to step up, but they also need the tools and authority. It’s all about networks. Understanding networks that is. This is the shift our organizations, institutions, and society must make in order to thrive in an always-on, interconnected world. Changing the mechanistic mindset : Work is changing as we get more connected. -
PORTALS AND KM | WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012 Search vs Discovery – Finding Useful Content While still at an early stage, there is a new breed of tools, content discovery engines, that are gaining traction to complement search engines. This is approach taken by the Darwin Awareness Engine™, one of the new breed of content discovery tools. Search and discovery are both useful ways to find useful content. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2012 Chatter builds its social supercontinent with new real-time features 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. But hopefully, in Saleforce’s vision of how things unfold, not a lot of different social tools. That’s a lot of social. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2012 Sidecar turns the simple phone call into a media sharefest Personal tools lead to practical business Updated: Forecast: global mobile subscribers, 2010–2015 Carrier IQ and the continued erosion of operator trust. Yet another app has joined the growing ranks of over-the-top mobile VoIP services, but Sidecar is offering up a twist on the usual VoIP format. or Canadian number. Sign up for a free trial.
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PORTALS AND KM | TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2012 Process Aligned Knowledge Management and Other Trends They just have more tools and the social aspects have increased their visibility and impact. But it does not put KM professionals out of a job as they will be needed to design and upgrade such workflow tools which is was my introduction to knowledge management in the early 90s. will take it one step further. It is a useful article. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012 ClearSlide offers painless pitching for sales pros, achieves impressive growth The introduction of web-based tools changed some aspects of a life in sales – CRMs evolved, for example — but “sales reps used a hodgepodge of different solutions,” to communicate with clients, according to Jim Benton, COO and co-founder of ClearSlide. We saw a big need there,” Lieb told GigaOM. The result? -
PORTALS AND KM | MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012 Bing Moves Past Google on the Social Side of Search I have been writing a bit about the invasion of social capabilities into all online tools. Of course social business is the big headline in enterprise tools but social search appears to be still in its infancy. Fairly soon this will no longer be news. remember in 2004 bloggers were excited every time some big shot started blogging. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2012 European companies embracing enterprise social, reaping rewards, report shows Now a new report indicates that adoption of social tools and the realization of their much discussed benefits may be firmly underway, in Europe at least. Some of the most encouraging findings about enterprise social concern exactly who is using the tools. We are not suggesting that this is some sort of panacea.”. -
HAROLD JARCHE | FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2012 “I will never stop learning” Yet, the combination of old tools combined with restrictive policies leads to a set of incoherent, inconsistent, and ineffective controls. Here are some of the observations and insights that were shared via Twitter this past week. gapingvoid – “Marketing is not mathematics. There are no solutions, only experiments.” -
PORTALS AND KM | FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2012 harmon.ie Goes Mobile, Bringing SharePoint to the iPad Their tools focus on increasing user adoption of collaboration tools include bringing central components of SharePoint into both Outlook and Lotus Notes. I have written about harmon.ie several times. See for example - Harmon.ie Provides Social Email to Help Drive Enterprise Collaboration Adoption. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2012 Olympics causing remote work controversy in Britain The Future of Work Platforms: An Overview The Future of Workplaces Personal tools lead to practical business. 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. Image courtesy of Flickr user surreynews. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2012 Author Paul Miller on The Digital Workplace and the evolution of the office The traditional office has reached an evolutionary plateau, according to Miller, but the digital tools we use to communicate both inside and outside of the cubicle will continue to improve to create more visceral experiences for the workforce. Rather, he sees a more symbiotic relationship between the physical and digital work spaces. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2012 ProofHQ CEO: Remote work is bad for startups? Oh, please! ProofHQ , a British company that sells tools to help review design work, for example, has been remote from day one. Infrastructure Q1: Cloud and big data woo enterprises Web startups: How to guard against security breaches Personal tools lead to practical business. And the start-up scene is home to its fair share. Do you agree? -
PORTALS AND KM | WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2012 AppFusions Integrates iRise® Visualization with Atlassian JIRA, Confluence spoke with Ellen at the most recent Lotusphere and they have been working on a number of integration tools. I have known about AppFusions for some time and respect the vision of their leader Ellen Feaheny. have been familiar with the power of software visualizations for some time and have interviewed a number of venders in this space. -
CLARK QUINN | TUESDAY, MAY 15, 2012 Mobile Changes Everything? This has been true at the desktop, with not only powerful tools, but support wrapped around tools and tasks. 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. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, MAY 15, 2012 Design tips for home offices in small spaces Tech tools that block distractions can help keep the spheres separate and give your brain a chance to recharge , as can shifting company culture to encourage rejuvenating off-time. The Future of Workplaces The Future of Work Platforms: An Overview Personal tools lead to practical business. But can space design also play a role? -
PORTALS AND KM | TUESDAY, MAY 15, 2012 The Social Organization According to Gartner The basic premise of the book is “being a social organization goes beyond experimenting with social media technology tools—the "provide and pray" approach. Here is a book that I recently put at the top of my business reading list thanks to a suggestion by my Merced Group partner, Catherine Shinners. Bradley and Mark P. - Steven J Spear keynote at #LSSC12
The big message I got out of his talk is that the idea of competitive advantage - or greatness of a company - has nothing to do with the specific tools, technologies and techniques. Steven J Spear was the opening keynote speaker at the Lean Software & Systems Conference. Interesting to see OpEx in the subtitle. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | MONDAY, MAY 14, 2012 Freelancer.com CEO: The future is bright for online outsourcing (but not niche sites) Personal tools lead to practical business Millennials in the enterprise, part 1: strategies for supporting the new digital workforce The rise of tablets in the enterprise. GigaOM caught up with him in London to chat about his company and his views on the future of the sector. In a word, he’s optimistic. million users around the world. -
HAROLD JARCHE | MONDAY, MAY 14, 2012 Learning in the workplace For example: Compfight for images; GoogleGuide ; Tools for Search ; Four Ways to Search the Social Web. 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. Create space for people to talk. -
PORTALS AND KM | MONDAY, MAY 14, 2012 Standing Old School Management on its Head Social collaboration tools can help here as they allow managers to see what is going on without stepping on the toes of their employees. It is nice to see another study confirming this. Lindsay Korizak, reports on a useful study by Bill McCleave in: Getting Back to Management Basics: Communicating, Listening and Trusting. -
CONVERSATION MATTERS | SUNDAY, MAY 13, 2012 Why Knowledge Management Didn’t Save General Motors: Addressing Complex Issues By Convening Conversation By contrast, technical problems are predictable and usually solvable by methods and tools that the organization has already developed to address them. Technical problems do not require a fundamental change in methods or tools. Starting about 2000 GM put together a vibrant KM program. In 2008 KM was alive and well at GM. Convening. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2012 Can’t we all just get along? Employees, freelancers, entrepreneurs and coworking By The Numbers: Running a Coworking Space Personal tools lead to practical business Millennials in the enterprise, part 1: strategies for supporting the new digital workforce. Coworking, originally a movement dominated by freelancers and entrepreneurs, is increasingly attracting the attention of larger companies. The noise, apparently. -
HAROLD JARCHE | FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2012 Etiquette for sharing Many people like to analyse what happens with their online activity and use tracking tools. Many people like to share things online. Twitter is full of links to other websites. For a long time you needed to use URL shorteners to ensure you stayed within Twitter’s 140 character limit. This is user-friendly and respectful to readers. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2012 How to make time zone separation work to your advantage Technology might be collapsing distances and allowing folks spread across continents to work together, but no matter how good collaboration tools get, none of them can alter the course of the earth around the sun and eliminate the hassles of time zone differences. Meanwhile, an entire week has passed. “I wake up about 6:00am. can focus. -
PORTALS AND KM | THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2012 Awareness Report on Understanding and Leveraging Social Capital In the section on leveraging external influence they look at a number of tools, including one of my favorites, Traackr. 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. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 2012 How Google’s app strategy is growing up Much of what makes Drive such a robust product off the bat also applies to BigQuery, Google’s recently released big data tool querying huge data sets via a spreadsheet interface. Of the dozens of meeting requests I received in conjunction with this year’s Interop conference, the one I least expected came from Google. Or is it? -
WEB WORKER DAILY | WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 2012 Hiring for your remote team? Don’t skip these interview questions You may also learn about other tools they’ve used that can be of value to your existing team. Personal tools lead to practical business Millennials in the enterprise, part 1: strategies for supporting the new digital workforce The rise of tablets in the enterprise. Handily, there are questions that can help. home office? -
PORTALS AND KM | WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 2012 Convo - The Evolution of Social Business Video It provides a lot of useful quotes on the use of social tools that apply to the specifics Convo but also make general sense to social business I have recently written about Convo (see Convo Moves to the Web and Enhances Features ). -
WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, MAY 8, 2012 Squadmail drags email into the collaborative age They are also very inefficient, which is why services such as Yammer do so well, but email’s extreme standardization makes it ubiquitous, so those are the tools we use. Millennials in the enterprise, part 1: strategies for supporting the new digital workforce Social Media in the Enterprise Personal tools lead to practical business. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, MAY 8, 2012 Sparqlight aims to save enterprise users from boring recurring tasks At the other end of the spectrum, you have huge BPM tools that can do workflow with automations, but it’s like trying to use a sledge hammer to drive in a tack,” explains Michael Weir, Sparqlight’s CMO. So what sets this product apart from other collaboration tools and allows it to target the “big fat middle”? -
On Thneeds and the “Death of Display” Twitter makes money off its native “promoted” suite of marketing tools. It’s all over the news these days: Display advertising is dead. Or put more accurately, the world of “boxes and rectangles” is dead. Tumblr just this week rolled out a similar offering. Dependent web companies are, in short, killing it. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | MONDAY, MAY 7, 2012 3 ways to get middle managers on board with flexible working The Future of Workplaces The Future of Work Platforms: An Overview Personal tools lead to practical business. Study after study shows that flexible work arrangements increase productivity and make for happier employees. In her experience, she writes, simple top-down strong arming of middle managers doesn’t get results. love naysayers. -
PORTALS AND KM | MONDAY, MAY 7, 2012 Information Overload Can be a Misleading Term But if you know you subject, the more content the better if you have the right tool to quickly go through it to find content of value. It have been a while since I wrote about the Darwin Awareness Engine™ but it is alive and doing well gaining new customers. Nicholas Herold makes a nice point in the post, Information Overload? -
FUTURE OF WORK | SUNDAY, MAY 6, 2012 Is “Operational Strategy” an Oxymoron? (Part Two) Technology tools give the workforce the power to find and create information—and to collaborate with peers all over the world—far more cheaply, more effectively, and more quickly than ever before. Jim Ware. An “Oxymoron” (from the Greek ????????, sharp dull") is of course a figure of speech that is self-contradictory. Major impact on cost. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2012 Software is eating the world and Atlassian is getting fat The Australian software company offers tools to help teams build software and it’s had a phenomenal run of 40 straight quarters of profitability, pulling in more than $100 million in revenue last year ( with exactly zero salespeople ). atlassian collaboration tools ipo Jay Simons Marc Andreessen Sarah Lucy software -
CLARK QUINN | FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2012 Educational Game Design Q&A I like a heuristic I heard from Henry Jenkins: “find a role the player would like to be in” Exaggeration is a great tool here: e.g. you’d likely rather be working on the ambassador’s daughter than just another patient. That said… The tools change constantly, and it will vary by size and scope. As a team? -
HAROLD JARCHE | FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2012 Manual, not automatic, for sense-making The actual tools I use for personal knowledge management are quite limited. 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. Now I make a weekly summary of my favourites: reviewed, filtered and reassessed. -
PORTALS AND KM | FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2012 LinkedIn Edges Out Apple in Forbes Fastest Growing Tech Companies Here is just another example of the power of putting social capabilities into business tools. 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. -
CLARK QUINN | THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2012 Thinking well and, well, not so well He reveals many memory tools to accomplish this, and points out some potential fraud along the way. A number of books have crossed my path for a variety of reasons, and there’re some lessons to be extracted from three of them. All have to do with looking at how our brains work, and some lessons therefrom. meta-learning -
PORTALS AND KM | THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2012 The Rise of Data Journalism and Related Tools Liliana also mentions some useful tools for data cleaning, analysis and visualization Tow of these are ScraperWiki and Google Refine for data collection and analysis. This is a topic I have covered before for example, Progressive Mainstream Media Moving to News Aggregation. Now that information is abundant, processing is more important." -
WEB WORKER DAILY | WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 2012 Women dominate offline independent work too Personal tools lead to practical business Millennials in the enterprise, part 1: strategies for supporting the new digital workforce The rise of tablets in the enterprise. Women make up the majority of online freelancers, consultancy Zinnov recently revealed when it surveyed 30 of the top online hiring platforms. Sign up for a free trial. -
FUTURE OF WORK | TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2012 Corenet Summit – Workplace Community Company tools are "free" to workforce, but sometimes limited in functionality. 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. But that means a need for more space. Share It! -
FUTURE OF WORK | TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2012 Day Two of the Corenet Global Summit Panel: it will be linked more closely to operations; will be about attracting and retaining talent, and about enabling people to work wherever they want to Update: now the debate is the "bring your own device" - will knowledge workers be like carpenters and plumbers who have their own tools and just want to plug in to the network. Share It! -
HAROLD JARCHE | TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2012 Take off those rose coloured glasses Social media are fantastic tools to support organizational collaboration and informal learning. 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. On-job-training in some cases, or just observation and modelling in others. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2012 Tales from the Trenches: Harvest New York-based company founded by a couple of designers fed up with the tools available to track time and bill clients, six-year old Harvest now has 22 employees, a third of whom are spread around the country – and a unique approach to management and communicating without being co-located, as co-founder Danny Wen explained in an interview. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2012 Sponsor post: Small world, big classroom: video technology in education With Polycom’s video collaboration tools, educators can manage, monitor and deliver video content, work together across platforms, and connect across networks. Today’s video technology makes education more flexible, rich and accessible than ever before. www.PolycomMovement.com/gom1 -
KNOWLEDGE JOLT WITH JACK | MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2012 A Factory of One Webinar The recorded webinar is available for free until mid-May at Gemba Academy: A Factory of One : Most people spend all their time applying lean tools to external processes and systems. Use the tools available to you to improve your situation. The book is about applying lean principles to your worklife (and personal) performance. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2012 Remote work boosts productivity? Only for creative tasks, says new research The Future of Work Platforms: An Overview The Future of Workplaces Personal tools lead to practical business. Advocates of remote work have plenty of scientific ammunition to win over skeptics. After all, study after study after field trial has shown that workers get more done when they can work away from the office. Sign up for a free trial. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 2012 Enterprise 2.0: Freemium first, enterprise second (Part 1 of 3) Instrument your app with analytics tools from vendors like Google Analytics or Flurry. HTML5 and cross-platform development tools such as Appcelerator and Sencha can help with this. Personal tools lead to practical business NewNet Q4: Platform mania and social commerce shakeout Social Media in the Enterprise. ” ). -
WEB WORKER DAILY | SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 2012 6 secrets for building a super team We aid her in exploring the space of possible projects she could work on, as well as spinning her up on the skills and tools needed to do the job. Web startups: How to guard against security breaches Personal tools lead to practical business Facebook’s IPO filing: ideas and implications. Take time to integrate new team members. -
KNOWLEDGE JOLT WITH JACK | FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 2012 Do people really waste time? There are tools like Kanban to help them manage their work and uncover breakages in the flow. I received a PR email with a link to the "Wasting Time at Work" infographic below. The analysis is along the lines of most of these entertaining infographics. Unfortunately, the whole idea of wasted time is so 20th Century. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 2012 Freelancers Union to New York State: Stop letting independent workers get stiffed Personal tools lead to practical business Millennials in the enterprise, part 1: strategies for supporting the new digital workforce The rise of tablets in the enterprise. The aim is to spur the government to take action to protect the growing ranks of independents workers. Do you have unpaid bills to add to the World’s Longest Invoice? -
PORTALS AND KM | FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 2012 Moxie Spaces Enhances Customer Engagement Tom said that they have seen very diverse sets of markets adopt this tool and approach. tools (activity feeds, wikis, projects and groups) that bring resources together quickly to collaborate. I wish had tools like these when I did a lot of contact center works in the late 90s and early 2000s. -
CLARK QUINN | THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012 Style-ish And I admit, I’m really good with styles in Word, I’m pretty good in Pages, and still wrestle with Keynote, and I don’t know about other tools like Excel, but I reckon the concept is important enough that it should start showing up everywhere. I’m a real fan of styles, ala Microsoft Word. Let me explain. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012 Wiggio snags one million users, pilots new premium service As far as collaboration tools go, Wiggio isn’t flashy. The suite of dead simple collaboration tools ranging from chat and file sharing to polling and document creation is targeted primarily at college students looking for a way to organize extracurricular activities and group projects. Asana has beautiful task management. -
PORTALS AND KM | THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012 Social Media Marketing May Need to Adjust Measurement It is why tools such as HubSpot, Google Analytics, and Typepad give you referring sites. Adobe has released second Adobe® D i g i t a l I n dex report, which provides marketing, e-commerce and retail executives with digital marketing data. The most common measure of impact is the last-click attribution. This makes a lot of sense to me. -
LINKED INTELLIGENCE | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2012 Introductions are Proven to be More Effective than Cold Calls Linked Intelligence LinkedIn 101 LinkedIn Books LinkedIn Tools Networking Skills The Virtual Handshake Using LinkedIn business introductions Fast Track introduce Jan Wallen linkedin introductions LinkedIn Works personal introductionDid you know that introductions are proven to be more effective than cold calls? Do you mind introducing us?”. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2012 Bosses are for slackers like Google Personal tools lead to practical business Millennials in the enterprise, part 1: strategies for supporting the new digital workforce The rise of tablets in the enterprise. The company has no managers, though Wanstrath does get the title of CEO. Are they the only company nuts enough to go for this free-form collaboration style? -
PORTALS AND KM | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2012 Alfresco Now Offers Cloud-based Open Source Document Management All of this is done within Alfresco so you do not have to get directly involved with these other tools, saving time and simplifying the task. It contains a full set of content management features such as document and records management, workflow, version control, etc. There are several significant aspects to this move. would certainly agree. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2012 Box’s Levie: Google Drive not a competitor “We built a collaboration platform that happened to have a syncing tool to get data into it,” he said. Levie said companies also have a very diverse mix of computing solutions and they need to have an open, agnostic tool that isn’t built around one platform. Levie ” he said. Sign up for a free trial. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2012 Google Drive is real: here’s what it means What Enterprise Software Vendors Could Learn from the Consumer Space Personal tools lead to practical business NewNet Q4: Platform mania and social commerce shakeout. Sundar Pichai, SVP, Chrome and Apps, Google (left) and Scott Johnston, Group Product Manager, Google (right). Do you want to put about 16 terabytes of data online? Go figure! -
WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2012 Design stores doubling as coworking spaces Buczynski writes: Every work space, whether it’s a large coworking facility or a home office, needs chairs, desks, tables, lamps, file cabinets, and various other tools of the trade. 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. -
PORTALS AND KM | TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2012 Social Learning in the 90s: A Use Case Most people it has been around since the cave people but new social tools have opened up new possibilities. Here is a story from the 1990s on that was built the precursors to these social tools. It would be even better in today’s tools but worked fine with the old ones. Social learning in a big deal now. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2012 Think BYOD is an issue? Wait for Stealth IT They need more computing power, or more storage, or some outside analytical tool. The acronym BYOD, which stands for bring your own device, is taking over both corporate America and the press release filter in my inbox. It describes the trend like this: A much more common trend is that internal IT staff find a problem. Amazon BYOD iaas PaaS -
LIBRARY CLIPS | MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2012 Microblogging or Macroblogging…or simply messages Anyway, what I’m looking for is a status update tool that allows you to do what I do in email now, but doing it online instead. 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 an #epicfail or not, what do you think? Related. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2012 Do we need WordPress for the enterprise? The collaboration space is very crowded , especially if you consider research showing most organizations are still just dipping a toe into the concept of social tools. atlassian collaboration tools enterprise social tools Jacob Morgan podio social tools widgets wordpressImage courtesy of Flickr user Phil Manker. -
HAROLD JARCHE | MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2012 To learn, we must do In 2007 I started blogging with the intention of learning and trying to determine if blogging and other online tools could be useful for my organization. Anne Adrian, in My own serendipitous opportunities , talks about her experiences in online sense-making. did not ask my organization, I just did it. It is necessary for all knowledge work. -
Keynote at TheNextWeb: The future is motion graphic presentations Now I can gather a global team of awesome 3D and motion graphic designers for a significantly more reasonable cost, easily collaborating to develop the visual ideas through screen sharing and other tools. I am giving keynotes this Wednesday at TheNextWeb CxO Summit and on Friday at TheNextWeb Conference. -
PORTALS AND KM | FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2012 Convo Provides New Web Version and Enhances Features With the Web version of Convo, like the other Web-based tools, you are sent to the actual Web page instead, when a link is attached to an update in the activity stream. Convo builds on the activity stream but adds additional features to enable more comprehensive collaboration. recently spoke with Tad Staley about their latest moves. -
INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG | THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2012 Academic Exchange Quarterly cfp What assessment tools are available to measure the success of such programs? There is a call for papers for Academic Exchange Quarterly , Fall 2012. They see articles on various topics for the special section: The Many Faces of Information Competence. How can we identify constituencies being underserved? Submission deadline: 31 May 2012. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2012 What women want: More online meetings? The Future of Workplaces The Future of Work Platforms: An Overview Personal tools lead to practical business. Men throughout the ages have pondered what women really want. Chocolates, they wondered? Roses? Someone to do their fair share of the housework? That’s a hint, guys.) Women, apparently, want more remote, online meetings. -
HAROLD JARCHE | THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2012 Using social media for onboarding Last year, I looked at new hire practices and found some interesting methods: Ensuring new hires understand the shadow or informal part of the organization through the use of tools such as network maps (Jon Katzenbach, Senior Partner of Booz & Company, author of The Wisdom of Teams). Use the tools you have already for social learning. -
BOXES AND ARROWS | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2012 Driving Holism in Cross-channel Projects Patrick has some interesting insights and tools that designers can use to develop experiences across channels. Show Time: 29 minutes 29 seconds. Download mp3 (audio only) Download m4a (with visuals, requires iTunes, Quicktime, or similar). iTunes. It’s never going to be the way you thought it would be on paper. -
KNOWLEDGE JOLT WITH JACK | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2012 What does a feed reader need today? People are also using various social tools as replacements for their aggregators. And in the end of 2006, I had a discussion of information overload as connected to news readers, Feed overload and your tools. . A reader of my blog asked me to update my thoughts on what I'd like to see in a news reader today. Navigation. Save for later. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2012 Stealth freelancers and the mystery of the missing self-employed Report: High-Impact Collaboration in the Enterprise Personal tools lead to practical business Defining work in the digital age: an analysis by GigaOM Pro. But hold on, some economists reply , standard economic data such as numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics don’t actually show an uptick in self-employment. -
HAROLD JARCHE | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2012 PKM Workshop: learning out loud 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. Sometimes it helps to learn out loud – LOL. That’s why we commit to formalized activities. Registration Link. Tweet. -
PORTALS AND KM | MONDAY, APRIL 16, 2012 TIBCO Upgrades tibbr with GEO and Other New Capabilities Ram said that with tools like Foursquare you have to check in. I have covered TIBCO before (see: TIBCO Spotfire Brings Self-Service Data Analysis to the Enterprise with a Social Twist ). Recently I spoke with Ram Menon, TIBCO President of Social Computing about their upgraded social business offering. Is About the Technology). -
WEB WORKER DAILY | MONDAY, APRIL 16, 2012 Coworking spaces team with universities to bridge the gap between classroom and practice ” But d.school@CoCo isn’t just about giving members the tools to accomplish larger projects. Personal tools lead to practical business Millennials in the enterprise, part 1: strategies for supporting the new digital workforce The rise of tablets in the enterprise. Should we go back to an apprentice system ? -
WEB WORKER DAILY | MONDAY, APRIL 16, 2012 Tax day for independent workers: The best last-minute tips Personal tools lead to practical business Millennials in the enterprise, part 1: strategies for supporting the new digital workforce The rise of tablets in the enterprise. Yes, the day you’ve been dreading has arrived. Yeah, he might be a scammer) and the repetitive (keep your paperwork in order, people!) It takes five minutes. -
GREEN CHAMELEON | MONDAY, APRIL 16, 2012 Blog>> Visual Collections for Sharing and Collaboration It is definitely not a new trend, though it is accelerating fast; new tools like visua.ly have been launched and Pinterest has developed to the third most popular social sharing tool in 2012. Many tools take advantage of that and two show-cases are Pulse News and Google Currents. -
HAROLD JARCHE | SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 2012 Three Principles for Net Work We can also create tools, especially electronic performance support systems (EPSS) to do the work and bypass any background knowledge in order to accomplish the task. Work is changing. The nature of work is changing in our increasingly networked economy. The same applies to computer chip designers, loan officers and tax accountants. Tweet. -
PORTALS AND KM | FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2012 Novell GroupWise 2012 Offers Enhanced Collaboration Capabilities GroupWise is the individual collaboration tool that includes email and other features. Novell Vibe is the new name for their team collaboration tool, replacing Teaming and has new features. The other tool is Novell Messenger and it handles IM and presence. There are two additional products in the collaboration suite. -
CLARK QUINN | THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 2012 X-based learning: sorting out pedagogies and design 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. And, looking around, I am reminded that there’s a plethora of models that have overlap. I’ll try to sort them out. design meta-learning -
WEB WORKER DAILY | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2012 Evernote and Pinterest just had a baby: Enter the new Springpad The tools allow me to selectively follow what I find interesting and filter out the rest. But according to co-founder and business development VP Jeff Janer, Springpad is adding many more layers of contextual information to make the service into a sophisticated social collaboration tool. mixed bag of revenue. Sign up for a free trial. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2012 Coworking spaces get serious about curation 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 -
PORTALS AND KM | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2012 eXo Provides Cloud Workspaces to Enable Flexible Social Intranets He feels that there is a gap between simple activity stream-based tools and the full-function enterprise collaboration platforms, including their own eXo Platform 3.5. Built-in collaboration tools, including an enterprise-grade wiki, discussion forum, and shared calendar components. Here is a sample home page screen. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 2012 The case for manager as urban planner Pay attention to the culture, and watch how people react to the tools you provide. Here on GigaOM we often talk about the future of work for the worker – more empowered, less tethered to location, perhaps more demanding – and about what this means for managers (Yup, it’s time to give up on points for attendance ). -
CLARK QUINN | TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 2012 Reimagined Learning: Content & Portfolio elaborated While digital tools aren’t required for this to work, it would certainly make sense from a wide-variety of perspectives to take advantage of digital tools. Further, creation tools could and should be used to create products and or reflections. want to elaborate the rest a wee bit here. an event review) or tangible output. -
PORTALS AND KM | MONDAY, APRIL 9, 2012 Convo Provides New Web Version and Enhances Features With the Web version of Convo, like the other Web-based tools, you are sent to the actual Web page instead, when a link is attached to an update in the activity stream. Convo builds on the activity stream but adds additional features to enable more comprehensive collaboration. recently spoke with Tad Staley about their latest moves. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | SUNDAY, APRIL 8, 2012 BYOD is unstoppable. Smart companies must build apps And thanks to the burgeoning mobile app market, employees have high expectations for these tools. What the Google-Motorola deal means for Android, Microsoft and the mobile industry The rise of tablets in the enterprise Personal tools lead to practical business. The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement has gained unstoppable momentum. - No reputation measures is the critical flaw in the JOBS crowdfunding bill
Companies like CrowdCheck and EquityNet (story) are building tools for investors that may help counteract this negative. The JOBS crowdfunding Act is a great step forward, but the potential of the entire scheme is undermined by the lack of reputation measures. believe that this is a critical shift that is taking capitalism into a new phase. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 2012 Canadian managers still skeptical of remote work The Future of Work Platforms: An Overview Personal tools lead to practical business Millennials in the enterprise, part 1: strategies for supporting the new digital workforce. Telecommuting is hardly the most new fangled idea out there. Why is that? Why were managers less than crazy about remote work? Image courtesy of Flickr user alexindigo. -
CLARK QUINN | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 2012 Social Learning, Strategically You want to be getting closer and closer to workers having tools to hand, the resources they need to get the job done. Increasingly, as I look around, I see folks addressing learning technology tactics; they’ll make a mobile app, they’ll try out a simulation game, they’ll put in a portal. Why not? social strategy -
WEB WORKER DAILY | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 2012 UK telecommuting study bolsters case for remote work The Future of Work Platforms: An Overview The Future of Workplaces Personal tools lead to practical business. 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. 14 percent said they saw more of their families. Sign up for a free trial. -
PORTALS AND KM | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 2012 My App Gap Posts for March 2012 Gorilla Logic Enhances Its Open Source Mobile App Testing Tools. 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. IBM Connections Conversations – 3: Analytics + Social. -
If-Then and Antiquities of the Future If I could just figure out a way to report on that future, to apply the tools of journalism to the story of the future we’re creating, I’d come up with a book worth reading. So here we go. So what might that look like thirty years hence? That’s a pretty tall order. But what if those protagonists are already here? -
If-Then and Antiquities of the Future If I could just figure out a way to report on that future, to apply the tools of journalism to the story of the future we’re creating, I’d come up with a book worth reading. So here we go. So what might that look like thirty years hence? That’s a pretty tall order. But what if those protagonists are already here? ”). -
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