Archive for the 'Productivity' Category
The 5 Futures of Attention
At the end of last December I thought this year would bring some serious innovation with “Attention” online. It hasn’t happened. Not yet, anyway.
I don’t pretend to be an expert on APML but I do know that it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere significant as it stands. I’m not sure people know what to […]
Social Media monitoring for free
I thought I’d share some simple, manual ways to get started with Social Media monitoring for those who haven’t yet taken the leap. Below are 5 ways of sticking your feet in the pond before you make a decision about a longer-term, less manual solution like Radian6, Trucast or Buzzlogic.
Volume of mentions
1. Use a combination […]
Are you a GNAK?
Recently, I had lunch with somone who had just visited one of our competitors and we got talking about company cultures. As we ate lunch, he began to talk about just how different each company “felt.”
That same day, we had an all hands meeting at Jive. We showed some of the big deals we did […]
The Enterprise UI Summit
Some of you might have caught wind of The Enterprise UI Summit, which is an event that we’re sponsoring next month. I know I’ve received a lot of questions about it, so I thought I’d put together a quick post.
Productivity Software meets Consumer Software
A while ago I posted about how productivity software should learn from […]
Anatomy of the Enterprise Octopus
Some of you may have read the original Enterprise Octopus post, which introduced the icon and explained the difference between The Enterprise Octopus (people-centric work) and The Enterprise Filing Cabinet (file-centric work). I wanted to take this further by turning on the x-ray and giving you a look at what’s inside both scenarios. First, let’s […]
Where are the thought followers?
Go to any company and they’ll tell you they need to be doing more “thought leadership.” I cringe when I hear this. The message behind the message is that they really want a whitepaper or marketing program or something that sales can dump off on prospects. I’ve never met a prospect that thinks of this […]
Enterprise 2.0 Recap
I didn’t go to this conference last year but everyone I talked to this year seemed blown away by how much attention and activity there was. I know our booth was perpetually stuffed and the few times I stopped by there were C-level folks from pretty massive companies talking to us. It was also very […]
Social Networking is aimless
In the consumer space social networks are intentionally aimless other than to allow folks to find each other, connect and socialize. Aimlessness is the last thing a company wants for its employees.
Social Networking is ambiguous at work
A couple of weeks ago I was invited as a guest speaker by a massive tech company. They had […]
