by Craig Roth | January 25, 2012 | Comments Off
Adoption, adoption, adoption. Sometimes it seems like that’s all anyone wants to hear about when it comes to collaborative technologies such as social networking, SharePoint, Jive, or intranets. I’m on record as being a bit of a curmudgeon about adoption since I’ve seen it abused so frequently (particularly in the SharePoint space) by IT folks [...]
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by Craig Roth | March 8, 2011 | 8 Comments
Feeling the pain of inbox overload? Here’s an idea: now add in messages that are status updates from your CRM system (“Jim Chen just hit his monthly AGP quota”), content management system (“Presentation AugConfv2-2.pptx was added”), social networking page (“Jackie Cropper just commented on Susan Hg’s photo”), and project planning system (“Task ‘Get buy-in from [...]
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by Craig Roth | February 14, 2011 | 2 Comments
Does it matter if organizations have a policy about use of consumer technology at work? When I talk to staff and mid-level IT employees (particularly those in the communication and collaboration departments) it’s clear that even if those policies exist they are often bunk. Our U.S. Symposium survey showed about three quarters of the 189 [...]
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by Craig Roth | January 24, 2011 | 2 Comments
Much has been written about the wonders of social network analysis and social graphs, such as being able to locate the social hubs and key employees in a workplace network. That’s all well and good for those highly networked employees, but what can the analyst learn about the “black holes” in the organization? Those people [...]
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by Craig Roth | December 16, 2010 | 2 Comments
I describe the core capabilities of enterprise attention management as pulling important information forward and pushing less important information back. When analyzing the attentional characteristics of a system, those are the two capabilities I check for. Notifications play an important part of pulling important information forward, so information workers are more likely to notice important [...]
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by Craig Roth | November 4, 2010 | Comments Off
Try this question during a job interview: “If I spend time at work doing personal career management activities on social sites using my mobile device, is that OK with management?” A not-yet-published Gartner study shows such mobile careering is more common than you may think. But maybe that’s not such a bad thing. The study [...]
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by Craig Roth | October 1, 2010 | Comments Off
When I see a demo of expertise location based on social network analysis, they show ratings or a graphical web that pinpoints certain high-value experts in the organization who many not be formally recognized as such. How nice, they say, that you can tell Suzi is the go-to person in the call center when you [...]
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by Craig Roth | September 17, 2010 | Comments Off
I’m getting tired of new behaviors that some people don’t like being classified as “harming children’s brains”. Social networking is the latest victim (see the Guardian). Don’t like the what social networking seems to do to people? It’s an easy path to prove it harms kids brains: the brain modifies itself based on anything you [...]
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by Craig Roth | August 12, 2010 | Comments Off
The Wall St. Journal reported today that technology began 3.4 million years ago, which is one million years older than previously thought (“Researchers Say Fossils Uncovered in Ethiopia Push Back the Beginnings of Technology by Almost One Million Years” ). I predict they will also soon find the remains of the first technology industry analyst [...]
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by Craig Roth | August 11, 2010 | 2 Comments
Is one side effect of strict corporate policies against social software usage to reduce the level of talent available via new applicants? When a “no Twittering” sign is posted over HR’s door, are the applicants that step out of line more valuable on average than those that stay? I think so. If there’s a study [...]
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