The concept is simple: you want to make a web reference (HTML link) to an other web resource, but you don’t want that link to go bad. This requires a web link, with just a little bit of smarts on the server, and so I call that a T-Link and it is a key capability for a collaboration system. Continue reading
If you are sending information to a group of people, you should FIRST post that information on-line, and THEN you should email everyone about it. Today I experienced a classic violation of this guideline, and while the damage is not huge, it is so pointless. I am documenting this case as an example of what not to do. Continue reading
Here is an article I wrote for Workforce Solutions Review, a well produced magazine from the International Association for Human Resource Information Management (IHRIM). It seems that there is some interest in Adaptive Case Management from a HR perspective — and for good reasons. When I get the details of the publication issue I will include that here. Meanwhile, this post outlines a vision for ACM and Human Resources & Management. Continue reading
For me, the highlight of the Fujitsu Laboratories of America Technology Symposium 2012 was the panel on “Bandwidth, Online Education, and Learning” where many new trends in education — something near to my heart — were discussed. Continue reading
Social Software is turning the idea of identity on it head. Actually this is a trend that has been happening for long time, but it is being thrust into the public consciousness by the desire now to bring social systems into the enterprise: ESS. It used to be that on the Internet nobody knows you are a dog), but that is changing. What they do know is your reputation, which becomes your identity. Continue reading
In April, Michael Poulin made a proposal for something he calls “Purpose Case Management“. While I am not convinced that this idea represents a new category of technology, the discussion and analysis of the problem is well worth the read.
Ted Schadler from Forrester spoke on Wednesday at the AIIM Conference in a talk called “Provisioning Today’s Information Worker” on the subjects of content and mobile. What follows is my notes on the talk. Continue reading
Dion Hinchcliffe has been a luminary in the social technology space, however with this talk “Mobility First: New Opportunities” he has shifted into being an evangelist for mobile computing. For a very good reason: the shift to mobile computing is the most dramatic technology transition in history. Ever. What follows are my notes from the talk. Continue reading
I was really looking forward to the keynote by Clay Shirky, and I was not disappointed. The title of his talk was “To Make Sense of Data, First Make Sense of People“. Continue reading
Every day I get hundreds of email messages, and many of them have attached documents. To everyone of them, I want to send the following reply message: Thanks for Wasting Everyone’s Time. Continue reading
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