Thomas Otter

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 say this [...]

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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 — a [...]

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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 [...]

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I receive lots of vendor briefing requests, some relevant to my work, and others not.  This one links to my research on privacy and HR technology, so I’m listening to it this evening. But what made me blog this today was IBM’s use of Twitter and the hashtag. Twitter is in the enterprise. How are [...]

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Both of them used social software to rapidly organize protests. Both with 10,000s of participants in a matter of days.
John Prescott, former UK deputy Prime Minister,  took on the Bank bonus issue in the UK.
Anne took on the Facebook Terms of Service. She blogged about her reasons for starting the group.
I hadn’t read anything about [...]

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from rpongsaj’s flickr cc license (thanks)
Today is International Privacy Day, and it is all over the blogosphere. This is a good thing. Generating awareness about privacy is goodness indeed.
But I find Eric’s position on Techcrunch  that losing your privacy is the price to pay for on-line participation and collaboration rather depressing.
The more of [...]

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(photo via flickrstream of addedentry)
So much of our enterprise systems reporting is still locked into the rows and columns model of reporting. Yes, some vendors have oil gauge type dashboards and yapc (yet another pie chart) but I’ve only seen one or two vendors who really think hard about how to change the way data [...]

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SOA is one of those things that is really tough to explain.  I’m often on the look out for new metaphors to help me explain it ways that don’t inflict too much pain and suffering on my typical HR audience. HR people normally have a high tolerance for pain, but talk to them about SOA [...]

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I probably spend more time than is good for me fiddling with the latest 2.0 thingy.  .
One service that I use a lot is Last.fm. It encapsulates so much of that 2.0 goodness, Tagging, suggestions, the joy of discovering obscure bands you hadn’t heard of before, or finding bands you’d forgotten about.  You can [...]

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Readers of my blog and research will know that I’m largely in favour of HR exploiting the “rich tapestry” of the Internet, and especially web 2.0 solutions such as YouTube, Facebook, Ning and LinkedIn. Candidates are using these tools, so HR is missing something if they aren’t aware of what’s out there. I do wish [...]

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