The old culture has to die
Most organizations remain bound by the old rules. The power systems all use the old models. Only a handful of organizations have made the move. To make this kind of change, the old culture in the organization has to die. - Robert Paterson It's so refresh ...
Just a glance…
Such a powerful message from AT&T. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVnRcIXEqaU (I'm starting to think that it might need to be illegal to have a mobile phone in view on your dash - so easy to have a phone there for calls or navigation but to be dis ...
Inspiring others
A mediocre person tells. A good person explains. A superior person demonstrates. A great person inspires others to see for themselves. - Harvey Mackay Thinking of this quote a lot at present when delivering strategy workshops and training sessions. T ...
What if we offered you stock options?
I worked one job and when I finally quit, they had the VP bring me in to ask why. I said, "Well, if you want me to be honest, I come in here on Monday and I’m completely miserable. I have no rapport with anybody. By the end of the day I want to shoot myse ...
The State of Community Management 2015
In my line of work as a collaboration and community strategist, one of the key milestones each year is the early summer publication of the State of Community Management report by the The Community Roundtable group. It tends to provide accurate measuremen ...
Thank you IBM
I was hugely honoured to once again be nominated as an IBM Champion back in December. IBM describes Champions as: Non-IBMers who evangelize IBM solutions, share their knowledge and help grow the community of professionals who are focused on social bus ...
Yahoo shutters Pipes
Thank you for using Yahoo Pipes! To help focus our efforts on core Yahoo product experiences, users will no longer be able to create new Pipes starting August 30th 2015. The service will be put in read-only mode until we will discontinue Yahoo Pipes on Se ...
It’s time to Chime!
After many months of following the progress of Jive Chime, first as a partner and prospective customer, and then as a member of the Jive team, it's exciting to be helping to get the word out about a brand spanking new social communication product! ...
Digitally-positive UK workforce let down by workplace tech
Fujitsu today published a study revealing a lack of digital services being provided by UK employers to their work force. In the Fujitsu report, 'Digital Inside Out', 73% of employees stated that digital is vital to the future success of their organisat ...
Nasdaq Top 10 – 1999 and now…
Some observations: The almost unbelievable resurgence of Apple is probably the biggest story. Microsoft and Intel have both lost almost 50% of their value over the past 15 years. The appearance and stellar growth of Google, Amazon and Facebook. You ...
Time to learn a new dance…
I love my job. Seriously. I know that's a cliché, but honestly, I love what I do. Since early 2008 when I started Collaboration Matters (which morphed into Social 365 back in 2012), I've been privileged to have the opportunity to consult for some of ...
Is Europe leading the way on Social Business?
Dion Hinchcliffe certainly thinks so: t's not lost on practitioners these days that many of the largest and most committed efforts with social business are now in Europe. The approach to IT in general in the region is certainly more pragmatic, yet it's a ...
Using random meet-ups to build relationships and strengthen company culture
I love this idea... One initiative we’re trying at the moment is CoffeeTime. CoffeeTime is an app, created in less than a day by Daniel, one of our developers. It works by pairing people up randomly, to meet and greet each other, often with someone you m ...
The official IBM ConnectED 2015 OGS session video
We've had the bootleg, now here's the real McCoy... Jeff Schick introduces the IBM ConnectED 2015 opening general session, featuring Scott Souder and Luis Benitez: From January 25-28, 2015 IBM hosted ConnectED. During the conference, digital experie ...
Slack hits half a million daily users in its first year
Slack turns one year old today. In its short but fascinating history, the startup has managed the remarkable feat of actually getting people excited about enterprise communication software. The company has more than 500,000 daily active users, and it’s ad ...
My favourite people
I adore this montage from IBMConnectED 2015! So many awesome friends and colleagues. Thanks to Oliver Heinz for taking such great photos and to Panagenda for sharing.
IBM plans huge revamp for partner program
The One Channel Team, which will be led by Dupaquier, pulls together 3000 IBM employees across the company's multiple divisions into one group dedicated to channel needs. The idea is to simplify the way partners communicate with IBM, making it easier ...
Some thoughts on IBMConnectED 2015 from afar
For the first time in 7 years, I'm missing the annual IBM 'collaboration and social business' conference in Orlando. Sadly this has also coincided with the conference being 'down-sized' somewhat and thus being deprived of the live video-streaming and p ...
My two favourite #IBMConnectED tweets so far…
https://twitter.com/woowar/status/559071898667986944 https://twitter.com/alanlepo/status/559423430580109312 (I'd buy that shirt in an instant...) Thanks to all at the conference that are sharing photos, tweets and posts. It's making like much mor ...
My favourite audio utility gets a major update
Every single episode of This Week in Lotus (my goodness, I miss that show) that we recorded over Skype was captured using Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack Pro. This Mac OS X app has always been phenomenally good at managing the audio inputs and outputs avai ...
Missing Lotusphere (IBM ConnectED)
It's about this time of year that thoughts in the IBM/Lotus community traditionally turn to Orlando, to the Dolphin & Swan hotels, and to IBM's major collaboration and social business event of the year. From Lotusphere to IBM Connect to this year's ...
The Clue Train is back!
For many in this industry, The Clue Train Manifesto was a seminal work in the evolution of the internet, and in many ways forecast the development of social media and social business. As I noted in my Social Connections session in Stockholm, it's incre ...
Learning from open-source developers
I have belatedly come across a fascinating 15-month old post by Esko Kilpi on 'Emergence and self-organization': What takes place in open source projects is typically not the result of choices made by a few (powerful) people that others blindly implement ...
POODLE in the repeat
POODLE in the repeat Lately we have heard a lot of POODLE I have already blogged about it twice here and here at ibmconnections.com. But there is much more to tell about it so that the reason I am creating this article. Nowadays when we talk about POODLE ...