I remember once visiting one of Schlumberger’s offices. It was in the UK and it harboured many of the oil company’s Research and Development team. I was struck by how much their behaviour, processes, opportunities and challenges resembled those at academic research labs. I was therefore not surprised when I recently heard about a tool…read more →
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Influencing behavior
A friend of mine shared a great video on Facebook. One of those which makes us smile and carry on believing there are good people around in the world. Initially, the cub bears are incapable of climbing out of the dumpster bin. The men gave them a tool, the ladder, allowing them to overcome that physical incapacity.…read more →
Your staff has nothing against sharing knowledge…
“Gillian isn’t sick. She’s a dancer” were the characters used by dear @jesybean to recommend a short video about a child whose behavior parents and teachers misunderstood. The first words that came to my mind as I finished watching it were “Your staff has nothing against sharing knowledge. They are just not encouraged and supported to…read more →
Food for thought through “thought for food”
When I wrote about similarities between social tools and sauces, Keith Brophy alerted me to a Malcolm Gladwell TED talk and Luis Suarez mentioned his post on Thought for Food which stems from a TED talk by JP Rangaswami. Twitter also brought to my attention a post by Rachel McAlpine about intranet obesity. Lots of…read more →
Why social tools are like sauces
I love sauces. Sauces are great. People usually love sauces. Ketchup, mayo, soy, white, vinagrette, etc.. Some interesting facts about sauces: they complement and enhance food’s flavour we don’t really have sauce on its own not every sauce goes well with every meal unless you are a food specialist, you know if a sauce tastes…read more →
Podio
There is a growing interest in social tools: both from individuals and organisations. The latter are looking at social tools, and more specifically, social sites (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) as a marketing and communication channel. Increasingly, they are also considering the use of social tools inside the organisation to improve communication, collaboration, knowledge sharing, etc..…read more →
I am my networks
Once in a while you read something that makes you think and question things you believed to be true. Equally, there are times when you read something that makes you think “finally someone has managed to put down in words what I have been thinking about without being able to voice it properly”. Jeff Jarvis…read more →
Nomad wednesdays
A few days ago, Ana Silva retweeted Guilherme Cartaxo of We Are Boq saying that, from now on, he would have nomad wednesdays working from other companies’ offices. The first one would be at Corefactor, in Lisboa. This is just great! A great little initiative from a small company showing that you do not need…read more →
Facebook organisational timeline
Whether you like it or not, Facebook is changing the way we socialize. It’s further bringing down geographical barriers, bringing people closer together, surfacing common interests, friends or circumstances. Facebook announced a new functionality which can easily revolutionise social sites and online social interaction: the Facebook timeline. Yes, there were already some attempts at doing…read more →
SCENT and lurkers
Bill Ives is using his blog - Portals and KM - to kindly share his notes from the Enterprise 2.0 conference happening June 14 – 17 in Boston.I was just now reading his notes from the afternoon of the Enterprise 2.0 Black Belt Workshop. I found myself nodding most of the time, excited to see my thoughts echoed…read more →