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" The most successful companies are those that think jointly technological change, work design and the changes in internal social relationships.” Antoine Riboud.
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This is the world we live in

September 6th, 2009 · View Comments · Social Networking, social computing, society

This is the nth update of a famous series I’ve already blogged the previous pieces before. No need to add anything. (Found thanks to Luis Suarez).

I’m still curious to know how “common people” react to this video.
One last thing. Luis draws the word “socialnomics” out the video. This words seems very relevant to describe the [...]

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Real time web is not a cure-all (and twitter won’t kill blogs)

July 10th, 2009 · View Comments · Social Networking, social computing

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.
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The enterprise and the web

June 26th, 2009 · View Comments · IT, Intranets & collaborative tools, social computing

Finally, many current debates are about the enterprises’ ability to understand, master and harness the web, internally. This may seem trivial because purely technological and being about competences that are much lighter that those IT depts have been using for decades. But, at the end, it’s more complicated that it seems.
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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Web workers between the devil and the deep blue sea

December 26th, 2008 · View Comments · Communication, Human resources, IT, Organization & Management

The  Pew Research Center issued an interesting report titled Networked Workers that proposes a analysis of the state of web workers in the US. By web workers we have to understand people who use internet in their day to day job, including email. qui dresse un état des lieux des travailleurs du web aux Etats-Unis. [...]

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Techno populists come to power at Unilever, GE…and in your company ?

October 15th, 2008 · View Comments · IT, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, social computing

I discovered the term “techno-populist” while reading this businessweek article. This expression, originally due to Forrester, designates people who flout their company’s IT policies in order to use in their professional lives the tools they use in their private life.
Wendy wakes joined Unilever when she was 27. Within the marketing department she quickly experienced the [...]

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Digital natives, e-culture, e-students

September 22nd, 2008 · View Comments · Communication, Information / knowledge management, social computing

Everybody focuses on the digital natives, the e-culture, and how those who are coming after us will deeply transform organizations.
Another point is the underlying question of the use of new tools in the educational process. Because Digital Natives are Digital Learners, what perhaps count much more than anything else, if they can’t learn, their difference [...]

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