Please wake up corporate security, privacy officers, and Luddite CEO's and CIO's and DON'T ban social media in the workplace. What's the point? You're improving productivity, saving people from themselves or saving the organization from some boogeyman?
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Gartner-Analysts-Decry-Facebook-Twitter-Bans-at-Work/?kc=EWKNLCSM081208STR1
As this eweek article points out social media tools may not be ready for prime time enterprise deployments but they can add value.
Based on experience I'd say blocking access to social tools just makes your staff mad. So why spread ill will. I do believe that organizations should develop reasonable usage policies that provide staffs with an understanding of the boundaries of usage.
Friday, May 15, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
hype cycle
TechCrunch had a great post way back in August on hype cycles. I've had this post in draft mode for months and thought it was time to let it loose...
TechCrunch Hype
What is interesting is that TechCrunch places social computing on it's way down to the trough of disillusionment while social network analysis is on it's way up the slope of enlightenment. So does that mean that there really is an understanding and embracing of Value Networks or that people just love cool graphs showing connectedness?
TechCrunch Hype
What is interesting is that TechCrunch places social computing on it's way down to the trough of disillusionment while social network analysis is on it's way up the slope of enlightenment. So does that mean that there really is an understanding and embracing of Value Networks or that people just love cool graphs showing connectedness?
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Micromanagers
The corollary to the item I posted in September about emotional intelligence is the Micromanager. A cancer if ever there was one on the organization and social life in general. The micromanager has a pathology that causes great harm to individuals, organizations and groups.
I came across a quote in an article by Alan Deutschman in FastComay - Is Your Boss a Psychopath?, that really struck a cord... "
Psychopaths succeed in conventional society in large measure because few of us grasp that they are fundamentally different from ourselves. We assume that they, too, care about other people's feelings. This makes it easier for them to "play" us. Although they lack empathy, they develop an actor's expertise in evoking ours. While they don't care about us, "they have an element of emotional intelligence, of being able to see our emotions very clearly and manipulate them," says Michael Maccoby, a psychotherapist who has consulted for major corporations."
That sums it up pretty well. Yes, I am implying that a micromanager is a psychopath. You can not act in a normal fasion with a micromanager, the rules of the game are not the same.
I came across a quote in an article by Alan Deutschman in FastComay - Is Your Boss a Psychopath?, that really struck a cord... "
Psychopaths succeed in conventional society in large measure because few of us grasp that they are fundamentally different from ourselves. We assume that they, too, care about other people's feelings. This makes it easier for them to "play" us. Although they lack empathy, they develop an actor's expertise in evoking ours. While they don't care about us, "they have an element of emotional intelligence, of being able to see our emotions very clearly and manipulate them," says Michael Maccoby, a psychotherapist who has consulted for major corporations."
That sums it up pretty well. Yes, I am implying that a micromanager is a psychopath. You can not act in a normal fasion with a micromanager, the rules of the game are not the same.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
LotusLive
IBM has annoucned LotusLive, its answer to collaboration in the cloud. This is what IBM has been calling Bluehouse.
On paper LotusLive looks interesting. Can they pull all these disparate technologies together into something that provides seemless powerful user experience? I think we will have to wait and see.
On paper LotusLive looks interesting. Can they pull all these disparate technologies together into something that provides seemless powerful user experience? I think we will have to wait and see.
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Friday, March 13, 2009
Certified Knowledge Manager Training
Certified Knowledge Manager Training
4 - 8 May 2009, Basel, Switzerland
Interactive 5 day workshop supported by extensive eLearning program
Workshop Leaders: Barry Hardy, Beat Knechtli, Pavel Kraus, Michael Wyrsch, Stephan Bohr, Douglas Weidner
Topics: KM Practices, Business Case, Strategy, Program Planning, KM Frameworks, KM and Organisational Culture, Change Management for KM Programs, Leadership and Competencies for KM, Knowledge Assessment, Metrics, Enterprise KM, Process-oriented KM, Knowledge Mapping, Benchmarking, Expertise Location, Search, Personal KM, Web 2.0, Communities, Collaboration
More Information: http://www.douglasconnect.com/html/knowledge.htm
Program Brochure (pdf): http://douglasconnect.com/files/KMTrainingBrochure.pdf
Contact: Dr. Barry Hardy, email: barry.hardy -(at)- douglasconnect.com, +41 61 851 0170
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Green:Net 09
Where Green and Networks Meet
March 24, 2009
Golden Gate Club, San Francisco, CA
The conference, designed by Om Malik and Katie Fehrenbacher, will highlight the opportunities ahead. Register today and join us on March 24 in San Francisco as we spend a day exchanging practices and ideas for a better world. Give us a day of your time and we will give you a year’s worth of ideas.
http://events.earth2tech.com/greennet/09/?a=rsseb
March 24, 2009
Golden Gate Club, San Francisco, CA
The conference, designed by Om Malik and Katie Fehrenbacher, will highlight the opportunities ahead. Register today and join us on March 24 in San Francisco as we spend a day exchanging practices and ideas for a better world. Give us a day of your time and we will give you a year’s worth of ideas.
http://events.earth2tech.com/greennet/09/?a=rsseb
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