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#likeminds - Karren Brooks teaches us to be here, now Paid Members Public
What is more important: the inventor or the invented? Karren Brooks [http://www.whitespaceleaders.com/] is kicking off her session with questions. In every conference there must be a session that’s hard to liveblog. This is proving to be it. She’s throwing a lot of ideas at us,
Making innovation work in large businesses Paid Members Public
Interesting Forbes article on the problems Microsoft faces [http://www.forbes.com/2010/09/08/apple-microsoft-innovation-change-leadership-managing-human-capital-10-govindarajan.html] . It is making good money, but is failing to grow. Why? It is failing to execute on innovation. The solution? A better working relationship between the innovators and those running the traditional business:
dConstruct 2010: John Gruber on why your site needs an auteur Paid Members Public
dConstruct is proving to be more a cultural conference rather than a design or tech one. And I don’t mean cultural in the “theatre, opera, arts, daaaahling” sense. No, it’s about the culture that surrounds the making of a good website. I think this has been clearest in
dConstruct 2010: discomfort, irritation and reducing Paid Members Public
I’m down in Brighton for dConstruct [http://2010.dconstruct.org/], a conference I’ve heard plenty about over the years, but never actually managed to attend. And so far, it’s proving an interesting morning. It’s certainly challenging some of the preconceived notions I see in play in
#csnf - Managing the Modern Employee Paid Members Public
Robert Johnson, strategic consultant at the Central Office of Information, knew nothing about social networking when he took on the talk. 60s: people told what to do without explanation70s & 80s: more communication and buy-in90s: Corporation as friend, expectation of employees as innovators. Blame-free, supportive culture.We have baby boomers,
Should Employers Ban Facebook? Paid Members Public
Natalie Cooper, who blogs on The Work Clinic [http://www.personneltoday.com/blogs/workplace-advice/], one of our HR-related blogs, was interviewed on BBC radio last week about Facebook [http://www.personneltoday.com/blogs/workplace-advice/2007/08/yesterday-evening-i-was-called.html] . Like so many internet phenomena, it’s reached the level of conciousness
Management Today's blogging recommendations Paid Members Public
Management Today has noticed that employees blogging is creating management conflicts: [http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/newsalerts/article/659949/mtsweek/hug-blogger/] > Here at MT, we think that if employers – and employees – are ever going to deal effectively with this situation, they need to engage in a deep-rooted analysis of
