We can hear that microblogging is killing blogging and that, globally speaking, the future of web is real time. An hasty discourse I don’t subscribe to. It does not seem to me that a trend is replacing another but that they are complementary.
This applies to the general public web but also to the corporate web.
This [...]
Entries Tagged as 'internet'
Real time web is not a cure-all (and twitter won’t kill blogs)
July 10th, 2009 · View Comments · Social Networking, social computing
Tags: blogging·blogs·Communication·consistency·information·internet·microblogging·real time·real time web·social computing·Social Networking·temporality·twitter·web
Web 2.0 turned the digital divide into a social divide
June 21st, 2009 · View Comments · Social Networking, social computing, society
Digital divide used to be and still is a real concern in our industrialized countries. Maybe we should end talking about industrialized countries to say “computerized countries” what seems to be more relevant with today’s world. Maybe some would say that it’s because we neglected this shift that we were stuck with old industrial models [...]
Some advice not to fear internet in the workplace
April 9th, 2009 · View Comments · Organization & Management, social computing
You are scared that your employees stop working and spend their days surfing on the net ? A too easy shortcut based on the assumption that people inevitably lose their time when they are on the net. An assumption that may also be true. In fact, the issue is about two questions :
The first is [...]
Tags: benchmarking·information·internet·learning organization·management·organization·organizational-learning·prospective·web
Story of a professional disconnection
March 14th, 2009 · View Comments · Organization & Management, Worklife
This little story I’m going to tell you is purely imaginary. It’s neither mine nor anybody’s in particular. But it may become ours, one day.
January 2009 :Back to the office after a few days off. I take five minutes to send my greetings to all my friends. Nothing’s like Facebook to do that. I realize [...]
Tags: generation y·internet·intranet·motivation·productivity·security·social networks·web
Survey on the use of IT in french companies
February 20th, 2009 · View Comments · Human resources, IT, Intranets & collaborative tools, social computing
Two weeks ago I was invited by Microsoft to attend the presentation of a survey on the use of IT in fench companies. Two things made it really interesting
• Although the fact new generations were transforming the use of IT, there was no global study to quantify and qualify it.
• The methodology was neutral and [...]
Tags: added-value·bearingpoint·café des usages·collaboration·cooperation·digital-natives·eranos·faber·generation y·Human resources·ifop·information systems·internet·IT·marc jalabert·microsoft·millenials·recruitment·sharing·uses
Do not mistake tab keeping for stupidness. Responsability is needed on the web
February 8th, 2009 · View Comments · social computing, society
In my “web and society” series, I can’t prevent from saying a few words about the tab keeping theory which is put forward by many people as we leave many traces on the web.
Assumption :we leave traces on the web, anyone can use it and not only to help us. We leave traces, the web [...]
Is internet dangerous for kids or does parents misunderstand what happens
January 26th, 2009 · View Comments · Social Networking, social computing, society
This blog post by Jon Husband and the article from the Guardian it menstions takes me to wonder about the presumed impact of the net and its use on kids.
People worry about the time teenagers spend online. So what ? I think that all generations, theirs,mine and our parent’s had their favorite leisures. For some [...]
Tags: common practices·danger·internet·kids·millenials·socialization·society·teenagers·web
Can enterprises organize themselves as markets
January 17th, 2009 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Information / knowledge management, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, knowledge-economy, social computing
What’s a market ? It’s a place when offer meets demand.
Companies love markets because it’s the more efficient way to find outlets for their products and identify suppliers. It’s a competitiveness factor because of the outlets it provides and the optimization of costs that competition makes possible.
The “social” web is a market somehow. Contents can [...]
Tags: coase·coordination·costs·enterprise-social-software·internet·management·market·marketplaces·organization·production·social-software·social-web·soo·transaction costs·web·web-2.0
What we should know as a new year begins
January 1st, 2009 · View Comments · IT, knowledge-economy
I alreaday published this video last year. It comes back with a new look and soundtrack (even if I liked the previous one too). Nothing new but things to keep in mind while a new year begins. Now we know, let’s act.
Happy New Year everybody !
Tags: internet , knowledge-economy
Tags: internet·knowledge-economy
Will 2.0 learn the enterprise ?
December 15th, 2008 · View Comments · IT, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, social computing
As I wrote in a previous post, all the required conditions are gathered for serious things to begin. Most of times, when a new phenomenon emerges, it goes through the following steps : ecstasy and disorganised intiatives even if brings no benefits, rejection because nothing good has been done at the previous step and then [...]
Tags: business·enterprise·enterprise 2.0·internet·management·o'reilly·organization·process·web-2.0
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