David (my 15 year old son) argues that Mac OS 11 will be the next version after Mac OS X Lion. He writes: “After Lion is released, I think that Apple will go from Mac OS X to Mac OS XI or Mac OS 11. Why? My reason […]
In my book, User Adoption Strategies, I show a four stage approach to gaining adoption of new approaches and new ways of working. Stage 1 is “Winning Attention,” with the intent being to show why a target group should be interested. There are various strategies that can be […]
I will be presenting a webinar in conjunction with Central Desktop on July 19 (US time) on user adoption – the title is Why Winging It Isn’t a Strategy: “Can you be successful without a plan for rolling out your collaboration initiative to users? Maybe. But it’s going […]
Conversation is about taking turns. I talk and you listen. You talk and I listen. If we’re in a conversation and both of us talk at the same time, our ability to hear what the other party is saying decreases rapidly, and we start shouting to make ourselves […]
One of the lead articles in New Zealand this week is about the allegation of abuse at a government department from the CEO to a staff member. The allegations have resulted in previous staff members saying the department has a “culture of bullying.” “The government department whose chief […]
In my Making Collaboration Work monthly newsletter for June, I wrote about three possible ways of seeing whether collaboration was taking place. Being Collaborative – How Can We Tell? How do we know if a group or team is being collaborative (or even an organization for that matter)? […]
Cloud Sherpas, a US-company focused on Google Apps, has purchased WaveAdept in New Zealand to use as its base for expansion in Asia Pacific: “US Google apps specialist company Cloud Sherpas has bought Wellington Google apps company WaveAdept, which will change its name to Cloud Sherpas. Atlanta-based Cloud […]
Recent research from Harris, commissioned by TeamViewer, found that Americans are using more devices each day than ever before, and this is leading to the need to access their data regardless of the device they’re using: “TeamViewer, one of the world’s most popular providers of remote control and […]
At an education conference in 2003, Amy Soller and Alan Lesgold talked about using computational approaches for analyzing online knowledge sharing interaction between students. A prime motivator for the underlying research was to attempt to equalize the learning behaviors of virtual learners with face-to-face learners. At the end […]
Yesterday I pointed to the recent Gist Infographic about the new workstyle. If you haven’t seen it, I recommend taking a look. Today I was reviewing my notes for a client project, and saw again the following table from a white paper from The Conference Board in 2000, […]
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