8 Reasons Your Social Initiative Will Fail The social software market is booming as companies rush to deploy software that help workers share information and communicate with colleagues, customers, and suppliers. But it's tricker to implement than you might think. Here are 8 things you need to avoid to get it right the first time.
Updated Fri Feb 10, 2012
Surprising Findings About Mobile Worker Collaboration A recent spate of surveys and reports examine the "digital transformation" to a more collaborative work environment and greater worker mobility. It's clear that there is a frenzy of interest in organizations moving towards a more collaborative work environment, but the challenges to doing so are complex.
Updated Fri Jan 27, 2012
Modern Life Coaching, From The 1400s Renaissance man Leon Battista Alberti’s 700-year-old life advice remains surprisingly modern--if not a whiff controversial and haughty. Here are his insights on education, choosing a profession, and marriage.
Updated Fri Jan 6, 2012
What Timothy Leary Can Teach Us About Enjoying The Holidays In 1967, Timothy Leary advised youth to "turn on, tune in, and drop out." But rather than endorse drugs or withdrawal from society, Leary's words are strong medicine for today's digitally exhausted holiday partiers.
Updated Thu Dec 29, 2011
10 Bold Tech Predictions For 2012 Cloud, tablets, social business--here are the technology trends to watch out for in 2012.
Updated Wed Dec 21, 2011
Why The New Twitter Leaves Me Feeling Disconnected Twitter recently announced a new user interface and a host of new features. The new Twitter seems to be trying to do two things at once: make it more compelling as a social networking platform, while making it easier for the uninitiated to grasp. I think Twitter will likely fail on both counts.
Updated Tue Dec 13, 2011
People And Culture Are The Biggest Barriers To Digital Transformation New research released by Capgemini/MIT shows that two-thirds of global enterprise companies are failing to evolve into digital enterprises--but using baby steps as opposed to overhauls can help them make the transition.
Updated Wed Nov 23, 2011
How Silence Changes The Communication Dynamic Ever wonder what it would be like to remain silent for an entire week? Not just less talking--total silence. A recent throat surgery provided me just such an opportunity, which led to some profound realizations about how we can better communicate both at work and at home.
Updated Fri Nov 18, 2011
7 Facts About Social Business And Collaboration Platforms Next-generation collaboration tools purport to ‘solve every problem you ever had,’ but what is real and what is noise? Like many new trends, there is enormous hype about anything social today--but to understand how your business will become truly social, start with this primer.
Updated Thu Nov 3, 2011
The Top 25 SharePoint Influencers Online Only a third of users in a SharePoint environment use it daily for document exchange because they are discouraged by the complex multi-step navigation required to complete SharePoint tasks. A new study by harmon.ie identifies the ‘Top 25 SharePoint Influencers Online’ in an attempt to give enterprises easily accessible online resources for advancing their collaboration and social initiatives.
Updated Wed Sep 28, 2011
Now, Where Was I? 6 Strategies For Dealing With Workplace Distractions "Close the doors of your senses in order to achieve solitude in the presence of other people," Petrarch wrote (more than 600 years ago). Distractions in the workplace are nothing new, but technology has made them much worse. Here are six time-tested strategies for regaining laser-like focus at work.
Updated Mon Sep 26, 2011
B2B Or Not B2B: Does B2B Social Marketing Work? Social media has become an important tool for marketing to consumers. But what about in the business to business space? It's harder than you might think.
Updated Fri Aug 12, 2011
Is Google+ Ready For Business? The Google+ experiment is growing, even in the enterprise. Can Google+ be a serious contender for the provider of enterprise service networks? And who should be afraid of Google's success?
Updated Mon Jul 25, 2011
6+2 Things I Learned At The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) is taking place this week in Los Angeles. Here are some observations from today's events.
Updated Tue Jul 12, 2011
Why Do We Cooperate? Some Evolutionary Thoughts About What Motivates Us In this age of virtual organizations, managers are desperate to optimize the human resources at their disposal. Here a two resources that provide insight and practical advice about promoting collaboration, to this end.
Updated Fri Jun 24, 2011
Social Business Leaders Speak Up: 9 Suggestions For Enterprise 2.0 This year's Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston (June 20-23) is dedicated to the social aspects of business. Here are 9 sessions that I recommend attending.
Updated Mon Jun 13, 2011
Digital Distractions Survey: Feedback From The Field Last week I reported on a new industry survey that looked at digital distractions at work. This week, feedback on the survey.
Updated Tue Jun 7, 2011
I Can't Get My Work Done: A New Industry Survey Looks At Workplace Distractions A new industry survey finds that almost 60% of work interruptions are digital, people waste over an hour a day at work, and two thirds of workers will tune out of meetings to connect digitally with someone else.
Updated Wed May 18, 2011
Ye Olde "How-To" Videos - How To Dial A Telephone And More It's amazing how quickly technology changes. Take a look at some of these short videos from yesterday that explain how to use the telephone (1927), the TV (1939), the typewriter (1943), the telegraph and fax machine (1946), the 8mm video camera (1967), and the Internet circa 1969 and 1993.
Updated Fri May 13, 2011
6 Surprising New Findings About Social Media, Email And IT Usage Several recent university studies have exposed some surprising findings about social network, email, and IT usage.
Updated Fri May 6, 2011
