5 days ago
Linkorama : The BOFH lives: 88% of IT workers would steal data if fired - Of the study respondents, 88 percent admitted they would take sensitive data with them when leaving their current place of employment, and approximately one-third said that they would abscond with company password lists.
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13 days ago
Linkorama : What Meeting? - The important stuff is the informal stuff.
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16 days ago
deusx : quilt - Summary [Savannah] - "The scripts allow to manage a series of patches by keeping track of the changes each patch makes. Patches can be applied, un-applied, refreshed, etc." Checkpoint and maintain floating uncommitted work-in-progress changes as a stack of patches
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1 month ago
Linkorama : The New Workplace Perk - Gas - “An extra $100 a month for gas and you have a real issue that could result in turnover,” Mr. Lewis explained, adding that even with rising unemployment, it is more economical for him to retain workers than hire new people and train them.
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Linkorama : Social Media 101: How to Get Your Business Involved - Here’s a list to stimulate ideas for better social media integration into traditional business practices, which we’ve broken down by department:
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2 month ago
Linkorama : The Adaptive Path Approach to Executive Recruitment? - Peter Merholz on how Adaptive Path found their CEO openly, posted for Harvard Business School press
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2 month ago
Linkorama : Musings: People versus Process - The root of the misunderstanding is that managers put too much emphasis on trying to create highly optimized efficient processes and the organization then becomes a victim of inflexible mechanization, thereby stifling entrepreneurship.
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2 month ago
Linkorama : Ticking bombs in enterprise land | Irregular Enterprise | ZDNet.com - For too long, we have not made the connection between catastrophic failure and the links between those who create, those who use and those who assure. It may require yet another collapse for that to come into sharp focus. What is becoming increasingly cle
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2 month ago
Linkorama : A great example of a business leader driving social software success - Leading, getting buy in and not meddling
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2 month ago
Linkorama : Diary of a Failed Startup - I'm going to frame these as advice, but everyone should remember Buchheit's Law: "Advice = Limited Life Experience + Overgeneralization".
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3 month ago
Linkorama : Yo-yo’ing on Millennials - . If the Millenials are to bring change then it is the management DNA that has to be addressed because no amount of technnology is going to do that for you. In that sense, I sometimes wonder whether there will be a fundamental shift in the way work is
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3 month ago
Linkorama : Is Enterprise 2.0 about selling software or solving problems? - But even that is worth little unless we can also succeed in engaging people and weaving these tools into the social and political fabric of the organisation. Software can't fix that.
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Linkorama : Millennials: Will they really reinvent IT? - Haven’t we heard this before? Anyone else suffering from Millennial overload? Repeat after me–you can’t stereotype a generation.
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3 month ago
Linkorama : Middle Management Holding Back Enterprise 2.0 Adoption - Funny, I've always thought that Middle Management is the source of the best power users.
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3 month ago
Linkorama : Next New Networks Looking For Next New CEO - This is the third CEO open search by blog I've heard of, cool!
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3 month ago
Linkorama : On Process, Technology and Work Design - It has been said that sociology always trumps technology.
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3 month ago
Linkorama : The Arc of Engineering - “Arc” in any case conveys the essential sense: that system quality (however you wish to define that) rises over time to a peak value and then starts to decline.
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3 month ago
Linkorama : The Software Artists: - Practicing, Rehearsing, and Performing Software
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3 month ago
Linkorama : A Revolt Is Coming - The knee jerk reaction from IT will be to attempt block these services at the firewall, at which point it will be too late. Employees will find that these services are too valuable and they can’t live without them. That is when you will have your revo
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4 month ago
Linkorama : I, Cringely on Analysts and IT - The truth is that there is no IT "profession." Most of what IT managers know about IT they learn from vendors, consultants, and folks like Gartner. Because they feel isolated, and because the IT vendor/consultant/media system encourages them to
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4 month ago
Linkorama : Julie Hanna Ferris joins the Board - I'm really pleased to be able to welcome Julie to Socialtext's board of directors.
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4 month ago
Linkorama : Press Release - Socialtext Elects 20 Year Technology Veteran Julie Hanna Farris to its Board of Directors
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Linkorama : The importance of pigheadedness - But we also need to recognise that the biggest speed bump in social software projects is invariably going to be the social, not the software. The technology is improving every month, mainly because it's being developed by small, nimble vendors who use the
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4 month ago
Linkorama : Are You Spending Your Time the Right Way? - Here’s a three-step plan for allocating your time wisely—and strategically.
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5 month ago
Linkorama : Enterprise 2.0 Redux - "the contrast between traditional enterprise software and WEB 2.0 software now being used more and more by enterprises. " great post -- go read it
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