by Thomas Otter | January 11, 2012 | 1 Comment
While taking a break from a flurry of inquiry calls about ERP upgrades vs SaaS replacements, I ambled over to facebook with Nespresso in hand. A few years ago I met Dave Duarte, who introduced me to the Ogilvy Digital Academy in South Africa. There is a lot of innovative stuff going on in the [...]
Category: Social Software innovation south africa Tags: accessibility, social, wimpy
by Thomas Otter | January 4, 2012 | 1 Comment
I stumbled on this brilliant video today (hat tip to @williamtincup). Click on the the link and then head back here. This is one of the better examples of linking corporate and employee branding for recruitment I have seen. Low cost Innovative Targeted Measured (note the stats at the end). It cleverly reinforces the corporate [...]
Category: HCM Social Software Tags: recruitment
by Thomas Otter | September 22, 2011 | Comments Off
Demos with realistic data are really good. They bring software to life, so yes, it is right and good to have believable entries in your career history or customer records rather than bits of Latin, or worse celebrities. But please don’t cut and paste real people’s data from Linkedin or other social networks and use [...]
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Category: Law Social Software Tags: facebook, linkedin, social
by Thomas Otter | August 3, 2011 | Comments Off
Those of you that read my personal blog will know that I spent the first day of my vacation at the Hockenheimring, doing an advanced driving course and track day. I got to drive a very fancy chariot, an M3 E92. It has 420 horsepower. It was an experience, but I have no plans to [...]
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Category: IT Governance Social Software Uncategorized innovation internet Tags: BMW, facebook, privacy
by Thomas Otter | June 14, 2011 | 7 Comments
LinkedIn has over 100 million users, and a market cap today of over 7 Billion USD. If the market is prepared to give LinkedIn that sort of valuation for what is essentially data that should be in your HRMS, then it tells me that your people data is a lot more valuable than you probably [...]
Category: HCM HR Social Software software industry Tags: HRMS, linkedin
by Thomas Otter | February 15, 2011 | 3 Comments
Atlassian is an Australian software vendor, active in the social software and developer tools space. I’ll leave the product evaluations to folks like Nikos Drakos, Tom Austin and Jeff Mann but I would like to call them out for something else. I have been watching the company from afar for a number of years. I’ve [...]
Category: HCM HR Social Software Tags: Dan Pink, employee brand., HR, recruiting, Social Software
by Thomas Otter | March 18, 2010 | 8 Comments
A friend of mine is a GRC expert. He configures and advises on Governance, Risk and Compliance software. He is also really up on cameras and the latest technology gadgets. His XING profile pinged me today, asking me to validate his skills. The app is in beta, and it is still quite basic, but I [...]
Category: HR Social Software UI Tags: HCM, Social Software, XING
by Thomas Otter | September 18, 2009 | 4 Comments
In my Twitter viewer, Tweetdeck, I have a search on Gartner. I glance at it once a day or so to see if there is stuff going on I should be aware of. I saw this earlier today. This then takes you to the LinkedIn page of a Gartner recruiter, Peter Fay. To those that [...]
Category: HR Social Software internet Tags: recruiting
by Thomas Otter | June 7, 2009 | Comments Off
Sometimes with web 2.0 technologies I feel as if I’m seeing demos of solutions looking for problems in a technology bubble, but this example really shows how mashups, text messaging and blogs can have a real impact on the quality of life and democracy. In this case, in Africa. via the TED site. Ushahidi — [...]
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Category: Africa Social Software politics software industry Tags: Africa, Ushahidi, web2.0
by Thomas Otter | May 26, 2009 | 1 Comment
Not only did the Australians invent the flipper, a devious cricket delivery, but they have an innovative HR technology thinker in Michael Specht. If you are interested in HR tech then you ought to be reading his blog. He has a lot of experience and interesting ideas, especially around the impact of social software on [...]
Category: HR Social Software software industry Tags: australia, HCM, New Zealand
