Oct 26

Presence, the next life changer

When the Internet started in the 80’s, globalization was unheard of and those working in international organizations were not “connected” across frontiers and seas. Open questions – fewer at that time – were solved by asking nearby in the same office, floor, building or restaurant. Twenty years later, technology has made everything faster and everyone closer; to keep a business among the leaders, collaboration is a must, real time, across distance and frontiers.

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Oct 18

Réseau et organisation: n’oubliez jamais la valeur du contact en face-à-face

Trois mouvements se sont récemment précipités:

  1. de l’agriculture à l’industrie et au savoir,
  2. du vertical au transversal et au matriciel, et
  3. de l’information à la communication et au partage.

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Oct 14

Rypple : le 360° feed-back pour tous

Vous connaissez le 360° feed-back ? Il s’agit d’un processus d’évaluation des compétences piloté par l’entreprise à partir d’un référentiel de compétences défini par l’entreprise.  Cela peut servir pour détecter les hauts-potentiels ou pour évaluer les résultats sur le mode entretien annuel d’évaluation.

Rypple est un service proposant un système de feed-back auto-géré. Voici quelques textes extraits de leur site pour comprendre le système :

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Oct 08

Sponsored Top Level Domains, branding and communities

sTDL, i.e. those extensions after the “dot”, that are sponsored e.g. by a brand like .ibm or .love or .hate, or .brand, etc. will soon be available.

The implications for branding are quite interesting. A “brand” will much less need to register in multiple countries or with multiple extensions to be “protected”. The .brand will be useable for all its activities in a fully controlled way. In other words a brand can decide to have only .brand as its root extension.

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Sep 29

Tools and Usages, the Innovation Conundrum

As I mentioned in an earlier blog on the Future Features of Social Media, there is a lot of difficulties for community tools designers to “invent” new usages (although they can invent new features) and there is a lot of difficulties for the users to find out which usages they will need tomorrow. This conundrum is particularly true with social media within corporations. It is harder for a corporation to put itself on a wait and see basis, to see how employees will use a tool, than for the Internet community at large (where the evolutions of, say, a Twitter is always fascinating, interesting and risk free for the observers).

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