A lot of talk about Social BPM recently but definitions vary widely. My post on “Who is Socializing in Social BPM?” shows that some see it as simply using social network features to accelerate traditional BPM (separation of thinkers and doers) while other (including myself) see the real benefit in how business is transformed by social software. Continue reading
Social Media and Social Software are hot topics, and everyone seems to be pre-pending “social” to their favorite technology or methodology. So it is with Social BPM.
I must say, I was surprised and slightly disappointed when I learned what the major analysts really mean by Social BPM. Continue reading
Some of my friends and acquaintances know that I am have been experimenting with a new scheme to control spam email. Like many people, I have had to abandon email addresses in the past due to over-abundance of spam. When you open a new email address, there is no spam. But as you continue to use the box, eventually the knowledge that you are actually using a particular email address gets out. Once your email address becomes known to the spammers there is no sure way to get them to forget it. Continue reading
You know that book on how everything important is learned in Kindergarten? Along that same line, before I got into Kindergarten, my mother taught me to that if I put my toys away, I will be able to find them again later. I am sure there was a lot of crying and whining involved, but like most people I eventually got the point.
Fast forward to the adult world. How many times have you heard these questions:
This situation is caused by the worst scourge of our time: the addiction to email. Continue reading
I will warn you, this is not a particularly interesting article — I just needed a place to record the results of some detective work.
I am a member of a number of “Groups” on “Linked-In”, one if particular: Business Process Management Professionals Group. I will be leaving that group unless something can be done about a particular type of spam. There are these email notices that get sent about interesting articles that members link to. But there is a problem. Continue reading
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