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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by Craig Roth | August 9, 2010 | 1 Comment
I’m proposing some counter-wisdom about whether Gen Y and social software will kill e-mail. I’ve read and repeated the assertion that Gen Y will challenge the enterprise’s reliance on e-mail since they have learned – successfully – to leverage Twitter, SMS, blogs, and Facebook instead. So e-mail’s dead, right? Not so fast. Whenever I hear [...]
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by Craig Roth | May 28, 2010 | Comments Off
Information overload coverage is predominantly about e-mail. That’s understandable – it’s where the message pipe into information workers’ brains tends to be at fire hose levels, threatening to fill their heads like balloons. But I’ve started to get questions on how social software will add to the overload. That’s a good point given Gartner’s prediction [...]
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