The Future Of Better-Designed Enterprise Software Starts Now The cost of poorly designed business software is money, time, and organizational health. Let's encourage vendors to learn from the better features of consumer products like Facebook and Amazon that productivity and enjoyment can coexist.
Updated Wed Jan 4, 2012
Baseball, Big Data, And Learnings From Advanced Analytics Analyzing the massive explosion of baseball information capitalizes on a growing trend toward "big data," the tools and processes to harness insights found in gigantic data sets. A project to uncover Twitter sentiment around this year's post-season play provides an example of how the sheer amount of information need not outstrip our capacity to manage or access it in useful ways.
Updated Mon Oct 24, 2011
Now That People Finally Matter To Businesses, HR Is The Next Big Thing The social business movement is forcing employers to treat people like the valuable assets they've always been. Is Human Resources ready?
Updated Fri Sep 30, 2011
Information Demands People With the right data you can make educated decisions, more captivating client experiences, and ultimately create stronger financial returns. With the right people, putting that information in context, you can do anything.
Mon Nov 1, 2010
Rewiring for Social Commerce Sale made. Gift given. Little girl ecstatic. Chalk up another wonderful transaction to social commerce. Is your organization ready for the next buyer?
Tue Oct 5, 2010
The Rise of Social Everything Within five years, I predict, the word "social" will seem as cliché as "synergy" feels now. Social connection will be like a dial tone, something we once expected to hear and now don't bother listening for as we dial. What it represents is just there.
Sun Sep 19, 2010
Blue Collar Collaboration People on the front lines, doing nitty-gritty manual work, can teach us plenty about real collaboration.
Mon Sep 13, 2010
Where Social Learning Thrives To benefit from social learning, build a culture that makes learning fun, productive and commonplace, a culture where learning is part of everyday work. Marcia Conner and Steve LeBlanc look at where social learning thrives.
Thu Feb 11, 2010
2Do.Over What if 2.0 were an authentic chance to revisit and do over what came in 1.0?
Posted Wed Sep 16, 2009
Twitterbursts: It’s Not About The Tools; It’s All About The Tools If you think microsharing (Twitter and it's enterprise-strength counterparts) is new, consider that humans have conveyed short messages, rife with meaning, for over thirty thousand years. Smoke signals have traversed the airways. Expressive quips filled Seinfeld’s show. At all stages and ages, we burst forward. So what is new, what makes this a revolution?
Posted Sun Jun 28, 2009
Twitterprise: Bringing Whole Selves to Work Social messaging offers much more than collaboration when individuals include their multidimensional perspectives in the Enterprise stream.
Posted Wed Apr 8, 2009
Learn More with Less: Nontraditional Fundraising for Corporate Education Fundraising for your education department. Why not?
Posted Thu Mar 12, 2009
Twitter Your Time-of-Day Wonder if you're learning all you can from Twitter and Facebook? Consider the time of day.
Posted Mon Dec 22, 2008
Learn More With Less: Low-cost Content With less money available for corporate education efforts, how can organizations continue to support intentional learning in the enterprise? This is the second in a series of articles focused on learning as the money runs out.
Posted Mon Dec 8, 2008
Learn More With Less: Corporate Education in the Current Economy With less money available for corporate education efforts, how can organizations learn more now? Some suggestions are old school, others post-modern. This is the first in a series of articles focused on learning as the money runs out.
Posted Mon Dec 1, 2008
Can Twittering Create an Economy of Words? How companies should use Twitter. More answers to executives' tough questions about microsharing in the enterprise.
Posted Mon Nov 17, 2008
Are Employees Twittering Away Productivity?
Answers to executives' tough questions about microsharing in the enterprise.
As the enterprise microsharing market grows all in, I hear from skeptical leaders befuddled by this trend, wanting to be reassured their people aren't simply wasting time. Here are specific questions I've received and how I respond to each.
Question: How can all of this yammering be good for business and my bottom line?
Posted Tue Nov 4, 2008
The New Media Skills
It's time to review the new set of skills people of all ages require to succeed.
After my son told me recently he couldn't find one of his favorite books and that I should, "order another one online," he climbed into my office chair and set his hands on my laptop keyboard as if to suggest he would show me how if I needed his help. The novel part of this exchange was that he had just turned four years old -- and he hasn't bought anything (that I know of) online.
Posted Mon Oct 20, 2008
Enterprise Micro-Learning
If you can't fathom how Twitter can help your company, read on.
When a student opened fire on the Virginia Tech campus last year, the school had no systematic way to alert those in harm's way. In the days that followed, organizations nationwide began asking, "Does my organization have the ability, in a few minutes, in the event of a crisis, to notify everyone involved?" What if fire, an earthquake, an explosion, or a hurricane rendered our email and phone systems useless? How would people receive information critical to their lives?
Posted Mon Oct 13, 2008
Face to Facebook Learning
I'm a voracious learner. In addition to reading magazines, books, blogs, tweets, and faces, I persistently look for patterns, connections, anomalies and what's new. I tolerated school only because it was where my friends were and because occasionally I could talk with adults who seemed to know a bit about topics that might someday matter.
Posted Mon Sep 29, 2008
