Last week my friend “Maria” called me asking for advice. She told me the following story and I wanted to share it with you. I’ll change some non-significant details for her privacy. I’ll note that I’m neither an expert in Facebook privacy details, nor in Asperger’s syndrome — but have familiarity with both. The purpose of [...]
As social media becomes a mainstream topic, expect to see corporate activity that opens and closes certain on-line behaviors on the part of their employees. There is one recent case that has hit the blogosphere in the analyst community. Although I’ve been asked to share thoughts about this case publicly, I must decline. I don’t think [...]
Having spent many years in a financial services company, I understand the culture of a highly regulated industry. We in the US regulate many industries — it is a reflection of our values. We regulate air travel because we want to fly safely. We regulate pharmaceuticals because we want our medicines to be safe. Safety is a high [...]
I came across two examples this week of how transparency creates social pressure that can create positive change. You can leverage these patterns in the workplace too. The first is Jonny Bentwood’s list of influential analysts on Twitter which I blogged about earlier this week. The list was created by inspecting and gathering facts about how [...]
This week Dan Spira and I presented at a networking workshop sponsored by Keystone Partners. Dan blogged about the event — so let me point you to his words. I’ll add a few thoughts of my own to his message. Many of the people we addressed described themselves as the kind of people who are usually late [...]
I ran into an interesting question the other day that I wanted to pose to you. A client of mine will soon announce a white-label social network site for people to join and share ideas about the industry in which this company sells its services. Nothing new here, these kind of affiliate communities are sprouting [...]
Just a short note about PBWorks – one of the many Enterprise 2.0 platforms out there that I keep my eyes on. They came out with some new functionality this week. Rather than writing a whole long post on it, let me point you to a fantastic article that Paula J. Hane wrote, and she included [...]