by Tom Austin | September 25, 2008 | 6 Comments
In this age of Blackberries, SMS, IM, email, recorded teleconferences and iPhones, how much time to you spend, on the job, tending to your personal communications and how much of your time, off the job, do you spend tending to your business communications? The lack of work-life balance is growing. And, rather than separating work [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Blackberries, Blackberry-itis, co-mingling work and personal, Consumerization, Pew Internet & American Life, work-life-balance
by Tom Austin | September 23, 2008 | 3 Comments
One of the RSS feeds I subscribe to, Nyquist Capital (dslreports.com) carried an item from Nielson which reports Neilson’s latest data on consumers who have ditched their landlines and gone totally mobile. There’s a lot of discussion on that blog about what it all means but it provoked, in my mind, a different sort of [...]
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by Tom Austin | September 23, 2008 | 1 Comment
Cnet reports that the FBI is now pursuing the hacker who guessed at certain personal details to be able to reset Palin’s personal email password so he could gain access to the account. Not a legal scholar, I don’t know what laws were violated but I suspect there’s enough to keep the FBI (and the [...]
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by Tom Austin | September 16, 2008 | Comments Off
As dawn broke over New York City (and a very somber Wall Street), the venerable Wall Street Journal launched a new feature (subscribers only), entitled “Journal Community (beta)” or JCB . The WSJ describes the JCB as a marketplace of ideas for Wall Street Journal readers. It suggests community members exchange opinions, ideas and tips [...]
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by Tom Austin | September 15, 2008 | Comments Off
Those of you who followed my earlier blog postings here at Gartner know I wrote going on 100 different posts on Gartner’s earlier HPW (high performance workplace) blog… It really feels good to be back and I hope to give you reason to subscribe — and I trust you’re going to give me reason to [...]
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Category: Uncategorized Tags: "changing nature of work", Consumerization, Externalization, HPW, User-responsibility
