Your company is stuck in old ways of thinking—old tools, old processes, old top-down control, etc. You want to introduce social enterprise concepts to help your company better collaborate internally and communicate with its customers. You see the changes from the consumer web coming into the business realm and you know you can help your company stay relevant in this new world. Maybe you’ve even put some time on the calendar to make your case. But where to begin?
This Writer’s 2012 New Years Blogging Resolutions
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I’ve begun to feel a convergence lately—of tools and motivation, of desire and actual potentials toward reality, of wherewithal and professional and personal need, of hubris and humility. I ain’t all that good at this social media thing—and I need to be. And so I’ve determined to more directly invoke my editorial calendar and focus on the task at hand: writing productivity.
On the Passing of Steve Jobs
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I worry that with his passing too many people will want to turn him into some sort of mythical creature capable of no wrong. I suppose that beats worrying that no one will.
No guys, its IT vs. End-Users – Capture Expert Blog
What End-Users want is to solve a problem, or increase efficiency of a common task. Not only that, they want to solve it without spending time on the solution. Even technical end-users don’t want to waste more brain cells then they have to on technology. Why? Because it’s not their job. We are all spread thin with our day jobs, so adding just one more thing unrelated to core duties is very frustrating.
On the other hand, IT is paid to handle complexity, the more complex the better. IT puts the technology pieces together, and makes things work. Once they build something, their job is to maintain the status quo until a new approach arrives. Not only that, within IT are specialties, those who are great with hardware, those who are great with a particular software package, and those who are great with network security. The more proprietary the technology, the more specialized the admin, the more security. At least for now…
via aiim.org
Love this. And the comment thread is brilliant as well. Especially Daniel O’Leary’s “If you were starting a new business today, would you go out and buy servers and hire an IT guy, or would you go all cloud?”
Video: Tablet support in Mobile Entree 2.3 #SharePoint
Demo of “panel” system (similar to Outlook render) on tablets. ME product still displays single panel on smaller form factor devices. Nice usability.
Facebook Users Revolt…. the initial furor over activity streams… now what did I do with that data point around Facebook’s numbers AFTER streams were incorporated?
I also applaud Facebook for launching a product clearly designed to reduce total page views in the network by no longer forcing users to go to their friends pages for updates. That shows serious long term vision and dedication to the principle of facilitating communication among its users.
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Flashback: Caller To C-Span Asks David Brooks for Help in Bringing Down Obama – YouTube
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Great addition to his CV. I’m a huge fan of David Brooks — he’s sort of a Bizarro-Colmes on PBS. Always smiling, always cool with his big-tent analysis. Now I know where he gets his material.
