The Outlook for Enterprise 2.0 Abroad
Live blogged from the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, Boston. From the program – With a panel of Enterprise 2.0 Experts from around the world, this session dives into market conditions and adoption in...
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Cowboy hats and Cuban Cigars
I’m not sure what *exactly* this has to do with Defrag, but I’m filing this under “things I’ve experienced as of late that may hold something to explore.” In roughly the last month, I’ve experienced...
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In my real-world life I have a number of different management positions with both commercial and not for profit organizations. Management is a really interesting topic, especially given the...
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Cooperating with Law Enforcement in Social Networking
Social Networking is facing the prospects of being deputized by the Australian Federal Police, Facebook, and other social networking sites are increasingly becoming one of the most important sources...
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Global Cloud Computing – Cultural Issues
As cloud computing gets adopted by people in many different countries around the world, across all the continents, it is quite evident that different countries see cloud computing with different...
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Innovation Culture Eats R&D for Breakfast
Research and development is a mainstay of the innovation strategy for companies. And with good reason. R&D can invent new products and technologies that redefine markets. Think electricity,...
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How to Improve Social Business Adoption as Told by IBM (Part 1)
I typically like to provide context around discussions with industry thought leaders and Executives of the Fortune 500. Yet some discussions should simply be left untouched and published as-is. It’s...
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Sexism in tech is like an onion–it has many layers and makes people cry
The big topic of discussion last week was the fallout from the PyCon conference. At the conference, former Adria Richards, who, at the time, worked in developer relations for SendGrid, heard two...
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Do or Do Not, There is No Try
The title of this post comes from a quote from Yoda, the famous Star Wars characters. Who would have thought that many years later this quote would be so applicable to organizations seeking to become...
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Collaboration Delivers on Value But Where’s the Money?
When organizations deploy collaborative technologies and strategies to connect and engage their people and information they see all sorts of benefits. These include improved access to people and...
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It’s Crunch Time for the Future of Work
Within the next 2 years millennials (ages 18-35) will make up the majority of the workforce. As I mentioned on Facebook page, these (myself included) are people who don’t know what it’s like to not...
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When it Comes to the Future of Work, Would Your Rather Try or Succeed?
I’m oftentimes amazed at how many times I speak to people running future of work or collaboration initiatives for their company who are just not prepared to do so, and it’s not their fault....
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Working at a Big Company Doesn’t Give You the Job Security You Think it Does
The assumption of working for a large established company has always been that there would job security. ”You should always take a job at a big strong company because at least you know will be there...
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Why We Don’t Need Offices
Image credit: Hourses for Sources Looking back a decade or so ago it was absolutely essential to have an office, or more likely, a cubicle. That’s where we had meetings, saw our coworkers, and just...
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5 Ways Email Makes Your Employees Hate Their Jobs
It can sound like a gentle wave, an eager ding, or perhaps a vibration on our phone felt from a pocket. It’s email, and regardless of how much we talk about the future of work and collaboration, we...
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Change is the Only Constant and it Will Kill Hierarchy
The one thing we can always be certain of is that things keep changing and we don’t always know what those changes are going to bring. The big difference for organizations today is that change is...
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Collaboration and the Online Dating Syndrome
Anyone that has tried online dating can tell you that the person you see online isn’t always the same person that you see in real life. See, the problem with online dating is that people can make...
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Is Reddit’s Decision To Kill Off Remote Workers A Good Idea?
The popular user generated content site reddit just killed off their remote worker program and issued a mandate that everyone must move to San Francisco or they are no longer going to be employed by...
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14 Principles of the Future Organization
Over the past few months I’ve been sharing a series of posts on the 7 Principles of the Future Employee and the Evolution of the Employee. This was followed by the 10 Principles of the Future Manager...
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