Collaboration
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...]
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 (presumably [read more...]
Google Wave: Reactions from around the web
Google Wave was released to 100,000 or so beta testers today. I’ve put all of these together through the use of Twitter favorites and Friendfeed searches. Please let me know if the collection is useful, confusing, or anywhere in between.
RSS and other offsite readers will likely have to click through to Sharing at [read more...]
Collaboration throughout the centuries – a letter from a reader
Today’s post comes from a colleague of my father’s. They are working together in Baghdad as civilian advisors to the Iraqi legal system on IT process and infrastructure matters.
Dear Daniel,
I am working with your Dad in Iraq and he was telling several of us about what you do and how you are trying to [read more...]
Six months later, FriendFeed grabs the team microblogging grail
It’s been just under six months since FriendFeed launched their first real time updating features. At the time I was characteristically excited about the possibilities, noting that
twitter-style @replies to individual users and direct messages to individual users … are all it would take to push FriendFeed over the hump in the enterprise market. - Sharing at [read more...]
