SAPPHIRE NOW and SAP TechEd, the European version of SAPs flagship customer event starts tomorrow in Madrid. It’s my first time here since joining SAP this summer and I’m really looking forward to it. From my (social and collaborative) vantage point, European Events are very special. I’ve spoken at many of them over the last three […]
As the market for social software evolves, I’m convinced that if we want to enable social in a meaningful way, we have to inject business context to where we socialize. And in turn we need to invoke social where ever people need it the most – in their applications, on their devices and anywhere else […]
As I plan to spend a day at my first HRTech Conference in Chicago next week, it got me thinking about how far along we are towards getting the people part right in HCM. Or as my industry colleague and Head of Learning at TELUS, Dan Pontefract, aptly calls, the “Wesources” part. There are some […]
Brilliant New York Times UX designer and author Alex Wright, someone I’ve had the privilege to work closely with, said to me a decade ago that “Tags are the new Mullet”. Back in the mid 2000’s, those garish word-clouds made popular by Delicious showed up everywhere and only those of us geekily-inclined really employed them in […]
When asked to review tent.io, a new protocol for, in their words, open, decentralized, social networking, Dave Winer writes: I don’t understand what I’m supposed to weigh in on. Anyone can write a spec. What matters is what software is supporting the protocol, what content is available through it and how compelling is the content. […]
The Nest thermometer is by far my favorite gadget purchase of 2012. Its spendy at $250 but if you consider that a 1% +/- change in your heating/cooling setting can tilt your yearly bill by 5%, accuracy and smart meters are valuable. You’ll make up the cost in savings in due time. Wi-fi connectivity means […]
On Thursday, July 12th, I’m looking forward to chatting with the super smart Brent Leary, Natalie Petouhoff, and Heather Davis about Social/Collaboration and the Cloud. We put out positioning statements to kick off the discussion, as follows: Dr. Natalie Petouhoff: “What if your CEO said, ‘I don’t want employees talking to each other. I want […]