Yesterday I read Don Tapscott’s brilliant article in the Guardian. (He was the guy who wrote the excellent book, Wikinomics). It helped me feel that I wasn’t being unreasonable in wanting to find somewhere where “work” could be “fun”. Hey, there is a whole generation of people who think that way.
He sums the dilemma up [...]
My dad runs his own business, I guess he employs around 30 or so people. I have worked for organisations where the IT dept alone is probably 10 times that size. And that’s not unusual for big organisations.
And having now worked for several large companies, I’m becoming more convinced that many companies of a large [...]
I have had the privilege to have worked for some excellent managers over the years, who I credit for helping me to develop my career and skills by allowing me the scope to shape the role I was employed for.
Right the way back to the various managers I had when working in the book trade [...]
Between reading Groundswell I’ve also been reading Here Comes Everybody, which discusses the social impact of web 2.0 technology and the ways that people mobilise around issues that concern them by forming online groups and so on.
And it dawned on me that, unless I’ve missed something, the writers of Groundswell have made a bit of [...]
Apparently, 21% of UK online consumers visit social networking sites but only 10% read blogs. In the US, the figure is 25% for each.
And interestingly, in France its the opposite: 21% read blogs and only 3% visit social networking sites. As an organisation trying to tap into the conversations their customers are having online, its [...]
Reading through Groundswell, I had a sense of deja vu. There was something vaguely familiar about a lot of this stuff.
All this talk about people having conversations online with each other, forming social networks, getting what they need from the community rather than from organisations, the challenges faced by organisations around driving value from it [...]
As I continue developing my understanding of web 2.0 and organisations, I’ve been reading an excellent book recently called Groundswell.
Written by two Forrester analysts, it talks about the importance of organisations paying attention to what their customers are doing online.
They define groundswell as a social trend in which people use technologies to get the things [...]
Folksonomies are great. In my view, they provide a richer way of sharing and finding information as you don’t need to understand how the organisational structure for a set of information works in order to do so.
[ For anyone who doesn't know, a folksonomy is a classification (or tagging) system created on the fly by [...]
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