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- Corner of Bar vs Corner of Library: The Twitter Conundrum
- On the eve of a couple of international Enterprise 2.0 Conferences, I'm revisiting in this post a core concept about the fundamental dichotomy of behavioral patterns around marketing people and business operations people. As a general rule the people running the strategy and...
- Tags: Twitter Inc., Marketing Research, Marketing, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-11-01
- BlackBerry the choice of organized crime
- You mean police have to workand do things themselves instead of casting a massive net over everyone? What a shame...well its good for RIM ....As for gang member there is one thing i never understood .Why does the a real clean up have been never made ....you set...
- Tags: Handhelds, organized crime, RIM BlackBerry, RCMP
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- Burnout - the Dangers of Remote Work Forces
- The problem is as old as work itself: you're working as part of a team and seem to be doing twice as much - or more - as your colleagues, yet no one seems to notice. It feels as though you're carrying the weight of entire projects on your back...
- Tags: Team, Burnout, Team Management, E-mail, Process Improvement, Management, Online Communications, Quality, Business Operations, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-10-11
- Montana Tests Unified Communications to Boost Responsiveness to Citizens, Cut Costs
- The highly dispersed nature of state government offices and other facilities throughout Montana makes communication there a challenge. So, the state is responding by adopting communications of all types - and unifying them with a single technology backbone that makes them "Realistic and manageable for them," according to a state...
- Tags: Citizens LLC, Telephony, Unified Communications, IP Telephony, Montana, E-mail, Web Conferencing, VOIP, Telecommuting, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Telecommunications, Instant Messaging, Collaboration, Online Communications, Internet, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2009-09-23
- HTC Touch Pro2 (Verizon Wireless)
- Photo gallery:HTC Touch Pro2 Verizon WirelessThe HTC Touch Pro2 is making the rounds to the various carriers; first showing up at T-Mobile, then to Sprint, and now Verizon Wireless. Verizon's version of the Windows Mobile smartphone isn't all that different from the other models, delivering a powerful business device capable...
- Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, Cellular phones, Verizon HTC Touch Pro2, Verizon Wireless, High Tech Computer Corp., HTC Touch, HTC Touch Pro2, Verizon Communications Inc., smart phone
- Product reviews 2009-09-22
- It's flu season: connect and optimize your workers
- More than technology to truly enable remote workingThis blog brings up a big point when discussing telecommuting: the technology must be able to handle the bandwidth when it becomes the norm. But that is solved by applying some well known technologies. It is a technical shift in where the bandwidth...
- Tags: Development tools, worker
- Discussion threads 2009-09-22
- Social Business in Action - Establishing Excellence
- Human interaction is as old as humanity, and nothing beats personal contact. We can learn more from a few seconds of personal contact and get a 'gut feel' about someone or a situation experientially in person than we can from hours of research and remote contact....
- Tags: Web, Team, Information Technology, Human Interaction, Cohen, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Team Management, Strategy, Internet, Marketing, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- The 10 biggest moments in IT history
- Missing: Tim Berners-Lee?The Mouse, and the GUI ...... without the invention of the mouse or the GUI/WYSIWYG there would not be as many users as there are today, and I would hazard a guess that it would be restricted to business applications like accounting, and Data Analysis.LudoRE: The 10...
- Tags: Mice, Strategy, Operating systems, GUI, PARC User Interface, mouse, Microsoft Corp., IT History, Xerox PARC, operating system, IBM Corp., information technology
- Discussion threads 2009-09-21
- The democratization of IT
- Get your head out of your paradigm"democratization of IT"... are you serious? Look at any complex multipolar situation in the world and you'll see that when there are diverging forces, democracy is a liability.Iraq... competing religious factions turned the idea of democracy into a joke.The Palestinian territories... Democracy resulted in...
- Tags: Quality, information technology
- Discussion threads 2009-09-18
- Do you really need Office? Really? If the Feds don't, do we?
- Sounds like these users could get by just fine with Wordpad.[i]That being said, how many of your teachers are doing this sort of thing? Teachers need to create content, no doubt about it, but that content should be online, accessible, collaborative, and reusable. You don?t need Office for that.[/i]The problem,...
- Tags: Next Up, Google Inc., Microsoft Office, Google Apps
- Discussion threads 2009-09-17
- Mailspect taming unstructured Email data
- Paul Sterne, CMO of Mailspect, collared me yesterday and brought me up to speed on what he's doing now. Paul and I worked together at Open-Xchange. His company is doing something that is new to me. It might be something new to you as well. Here's what Mailspect has...
- Tags: MPP Web Services Mailspect, ESM, E-mail, Online Communications, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-09-17
- What century is this?
- The chess clubMy vote would be, to strongly encourage them to go digital. And on line.I'm secretary of my chess club, and it's very annoying that some elderly members don't even have a computer let alone internet access. This makes communication a lot more difficult and slow.I even offered them...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, E-mail, chess club, computer
- Discussion threads 2009-09-10
- Bad ethics in the wild: Twitter spamming and site stealing
- Interesting......a guy who has no problem violating copyrights complaining about a lack of ethics.Carl RapsonSPAM on Twitter!!! Say it isn't so!!Why is this worthy of a ZDNET blog entry. Is your next entry going to be about how you hate to get those EMail's that say "You've Won $15,000,000" or...
- Tags: Spam, E-mail, Twitter Inc., Twitter spamming, BAD ETHICS, spamming
- Discussion threads 2009-09-02
- Wikipedia: What's good for the goose?
- It's extremely useful--to a pointVery useful to the extent that it gives a surprisingly deep and thorough investigation of a topic, based on the opinions of one person or a very small group of people.For many topics, that good enough. Most people will agree that the moon is made...
- Tags: Wikipedia, Wiki
- Discussion threads 2009-08-31
- If we're "ground zero" for H1N1, how can tech help?
- Not long ago, as H1N1 (or "swine flu") really began making headlines with school closings, I wrote a post asking if "Universal Cloud Computing" was the answer to H1N1. It was more of a rhetorical question than anything, but the hope is certainly that cloud tools can keep students...
- Tags: H1N1 Flu, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-08-23
- I'm going to Blogsville!
- Blogsville is a conference taking place at the end of October outside of Providence where several prominent bloggers will help explain "What it takes to design, develop, and manage any blog." This is a bit of a departure for me since my brand is so focused on educational technology....
- Tags: Administrator, Blog, Teacher, Blogsville, Blogging, Web 2.0, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-08-23
- Joe Biden and the dawn of the MediNet
- what a waste, just model VA Hospitalsthey have one of the most efficient medical records on the planet. HIEThese funds are not to develop electronic medical records (your right, the VA's VISTA system is very good - and I am a strong advocate of open source solutions) This is...
- Tags: Government, Insurance, Vertical industries, MediNet, Joe Biden, dawn, medical record, Hie
- Discussion threads 2009-08-21
- Social Media Revolution?
- Here's another YouTube video - 'Social Media Revolution' - conflating a lot of stats in order to make a case for 'Social Media' being the 'biggest shift since the industrial revolution'. Web 2.0...The Machine is Us/ing Us started this style of delivery and...
- Tags: Social Media, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-08-16
- New Approach in Teaching Network Security Subjects
- This paper discusses a curriculum approach that will give emphasis on practical sessions of teaching network security subjects in information and communication technology courses. As one is well aware, the need to use a practice and application oriented approach in education is paramount. Research on active learning and cooperative groups...
- Tags: Network, Information And Communication Technology, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Network Security, Networking, Security, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2009-08-13
- Shock Horror 'Social Media': Who Will Save/Train the Children?
- An interesting US national poll from Common Sense Media asking 'is social networking changing childhood?' opens up some wider issues. Common sense media suggest their poll... ...illustrates a continuing disconnect between parents and kids when it comes to kids’ digital lives....
- Tags: Facebook, Network, Social Media, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
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