Stop treating your remote contributors as second-class citizens
If you work in a multinational corporation like mine, you regularly work with people who don’t live in your area. If you’re a contractor or self-employed, this will be even more familiar. You’ll see them on mailing lists and dialed in to meetings from time to time. We might not realize it, but often we [read more...]
Context switch: Mailblogging via Posterous for a while
I have been quiet on the enterprise collaboration front for the past few weeks. Lately I’ve been brushing up on public-facing web app development using PHP (and sometimes Ruby/Rails). I’ve been blogging in quick spurts about the sort of tasks I’m putting myself through over on my Posterous mailblog. Recent topics on the mailblog: Test [read more...]
Do your employee incentives encourage productive behavior?
Reward programs gone horribly wrong I think we’ve all seen examples of reward systems leading to counterproductive behavior. My favorite example is working for a fast food joint when I was in college and having a “seventy second drive-through time” contest. Our goal was to keep the average time between customers leaving the drive-through menu [read more...]
Salesforce announces the latest “internal Facebook”. Is this Facebook cofounder’s enterprise spinoff still coming?
Today’s announcment of Salesforce “Chatter” as a SaaSy enterprise Facebook product adds another option to the red-hot market for enterprise social platforms modeled on Facebook. Regular readers will remember that I called out ”Internal Facebooks” as the #1 collaboration trend for 2009 in a post last month. We’re still waiting to hear from Asana, the business [read more...]
Presenting at tomorrow’s BarCamp Memphis!
The second annual BarCamp Memphis is finally here! Tomorrow I’ll be heading to the MASE building to listen in to soome good presentations, panels, and wide-open discussions (“core conversations”) about technology development, new media, and entrepreneurship. My two scheduled sessions are: “Social Tools in the Enterprise” with Ryan Hinricher. Ryan and I are going to [read more...]
