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• Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:54 PM

  Next Generation Workforce

  Mike Gotta moderated our next generation workforce panel this morning, where I participated alongside Scott Smith from IBM Global Services and Patti Anklam, a writer and consultant on social networking. Here are a couple of key take-aways from the discussion: Read More... Posted by admin | 1 Comments Filed under: organizational culture, management, collaboration and social computing

• Wednesday, June 11, 2008 10:53 PM

  Enterprise 2.0

  So I've been at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston all week, but ironically, have not been able to blog because of technical problems with the wireless connection at the hotel. Apparently it did not occur to someone at Sprint that a conference of Read More... Posted by admin | 0 Comments Filed under: organizational culture, collaboration and social computing

• Thursday, April 17, 2008 7:44 AM

  Age, Power and Social Computing

  Mike Gotta points to this article by Dennis Howlett called "The poverty of enterprise 2.0 and social computing," in which Howlett observes: In the context of ’social’ anything, these are incredibly important concepts because what we’re really talking Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: Web 2.0, organizational culture, IT, collaboration and social computing

• Friday, March 28, 2008 2:32 PM

  High Risk

  I've been AWOL from the blog this week because I've been heads-down on some work I'm doing regarding the future of the insurance industry (hey, gotta pay the bills...). Because I do the majority of my work in the high-tech sector, which for all its issues Read More... Posted by Rob | 1 Comments Filed under: organizational culture

• Monday, March 03, 2008 2:10 PM

  CIO.com: Banning Social Networks a Losing Battle

  There's an interesting article at CIO.com today discussing the ongoing problems that employers are having with (mostly younger) workers accessing their social networking sites at work. CIO points out that, while it is technically possible to ban access Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: organizational culture, IT

• Friday, February 15, 2008 12:59 PM

  The Digital Class Divide

  I just finished reading Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White Collar Dreams , Alfred Lubrano's excellent first-person account of the divide in values separating blue-collar and professional classes in America. Lubrano, an award-winning journalist and NPR commentator, Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: organizational culture, Social Trends, workforce development, blue collar

• Monday, February 11, 2008 9:24 AM

  Plotting the Future of the Workforce

  Although it's important to get people of all ages on the same page with technology in today's workforce, the issue becomes really important over the next 10 years. Right now, organizational leadership roles that correlate to experience and seniority are Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: organizational culture, Boomers, Generation X-ecutive, futurism, Millennials, management

• Friday, December 28, 2007 11:27 AM

  Quakerism and Web 2.0

  In Philadelphia, a fair number of the better private secondary schools are run by Quakers. I graduated from one of them, the William Penn Charter School , in 1985, and benefited not only from a good education, but also from the school's forward-leaning Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: Web 2.0, organizational culture, education