National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace

On Friday (25 June 2010) the White House blog posted information and links on the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace .

This is a very important work that of course will directly affect Digital Identity Management.  There is lots of commentary in the DiDM space.

Do HR Leaders understand social media

Do HR Leaders understand social media?

I am both encouraged and discouraged by what I read in this post titled HR Leaders Tout Social Media.  The encouragement comes from HR professionals acknowledging value in social media.  The discouragement because HR professionals clearly don't seem to appreciate what enterprise social media is. The following quote explains a lot; "64 percent said they plan to create content on blogs, websites, video or audio, while 57 percent plan to spend more time maintaining a profile in a social or professional network"  This quote is indicative of the misunderstanding within most organization about what enterprise social media is and isn't.  Blogs, websites, video, audio and professional social networks are NOT a part of enterprise social media.

Organizations need extensions in existing policies that address social media.  In most instances existing policies are fine, they just need to acknowledge social media.  There also needs to be a rational balancing of risk vs. reward undertaken with respect to enterprise social media.

Gadgets = Food & Sex for Techies?

A really good read from the NY Times on how multi-tasking is affecting people - Hooked on Gadgets and Paying a Mental Price.

"While many people say multitasking makes them more productive, research shows otherwise. Heavy multitaskers actually have more trouble focusing and shutting out irrelevant information, scientists say, and they experience more stress."

Can our brains really handle the deluge of information coming our way?  How can KM help to cut through the data stream pollution and enable people to better manage their individual knowledge?

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Surviving in the new economy

The nature of employment is changing.  Jobs are disappearing and they won't be replaced, at least not with full time employment.   Most people will become contractors or temporary staff - flexible workforces engaged in "staff augmentation".  Many jobs will disappear entirely.  Economist call this structural job loss.

Individuals and organizations need to acknowledge, understand, and ultimately embrace this fundamental change in our working lives.  This change is so foundational that it will literally be "sink or swim" for many people.

Over the last twenty plus years we have seen the change from long-term employee/employer relationships, to a more transient work life, and now to the rise of the 'contractor'.  The contractor isn't an employee, but they do all the things that a traditional employee would do without the real and perceived benefits of being an employee.

The NY Times had an article on this very topic a few weeks back - In Job Market Shift, Some Workers Are Left behind.

As this change gathers steam, organizations can minimize the negative impact on individuals and the organization by working at leveraging the collective knowledge of their employees, contractors, consultants and customers.  This can be accomplished by providing processes that enhance knowledge flow, technology that facilitates both knowledge capture and reuse, and developing work environments that encourage greater interaction and a sense of belonging.

 

Collaboration 2.0 - Implementation Tips & Best Practices From the Pros

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There is a special FREE webinar coming up that David Coleman is doing with Akamai. In David's part of the presentation he will:

• Explain why collaboration supported by today's technologies does not work!
• Reveal some new data from our recent "State of Collaboration" research. I will talk about Holistic Collaboration (people, process and technology), and why the 2000 collaborative tools today all fail.
• Talk about "The Collaborative Shift" an idea that can make or break collaboration success.
• How to identify which of the critical processes in you company have the most "Collaborative Leverage" and the greatest ROI. How to identify and fix broken business relationships.
• How fixing your enterprise relationships can add 20-40% more productivity, and positively impact your bottom line
• The 6 biggest benefits of good corporate relationships
• A new methodology and Holistic Collaboration tools that can fix your broken corporate relationships