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- Traction Announces New Integrated Micro-blogging and Solid Revenue Growth for 2008Yesterday
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I have written about Traction Software several times before (see - Blog and Wiki Success Story from Traction Software). TeamPage is a hybrid blog and wiki collaboration platform that continues to add new features. I recently caught up with Jordan Frank, Traction Software’s Vice President for Marketing and Business Development. We discussed several topics,
First, I mentioned that I have heard of continued success for some enterprise 2.0 firms even in today’s down market (see Are You Seeing Growth in the Enterprise 2.0 Market Even in Difficult Times?). Jordan said that they are also experiencing this growth against the down market. Traction Software has announced that 2008 marks their sixth year of consecutive revenue and customer growth. They made their goals for the year by the end of the third quarter. This is good news for Traction and for the enterprise 2.0 market sector (see also the related -
- Notable + Quotable: On staying focused, defining the new stack, and seizing the power of corporate networkingYesterday
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10 Ways to use laser sharp focus to get more done
If you’re feeling a little distracted, try to get down to work by following some of Jonathan Mead’s tips on Zen Habits: “Commitment isn’t just thinking about really wanting something. You have to put your energy behind it enough to be able to move from point a to point z. If you’re trying to hit points c, s, q, y and t (which might represent other goals you have) you’ll get distracted. You lose focus and your energy fizzles.“The New Stack: SaaS, Cloud Computing, Core Technology
Bernard Lunn of ReadWriteWeb presents his ideas on a new kind of stack, the players, and potential for value creation in Enterprise 2.0: “Most of us are spectators in the Cloud Computing game. But we all have lots of opportunities to be players at the top of the stack, in the SaaS layer. This is where there are low barriers to entry, massively reduced R&D costs and incumbents who will be slow to embrace SaaS for fear of cannibalizing their core business.”Government 2.0: The Presidential Transition
Continuing his informative series on Mashable, Dr. Mark Drapeau cites the role of technology and the difficulties involved in carrying out this immense task: “There will be a large - Considering Telework? Consider the Person, the Office, the JobYesterday
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A recent CareerBuilder.com article on CNN notes three different inquiries that companies need to make before deciding on whether to allow someone to work from home. A company like Aetna insurance, for example, looks at:
- The person – Is the person suited for a work-at-home position? (Presumably this has to do with having self-discipline and the ability to work without close supervision or constant reinforcement.)
- The location – Is the employee’s home environment suitable for remote work? Do they have an office set up? Is the environment stable and business-friendly? (I am guessing those 14 dogs barking the background wouldn’t be considered business friendly.)
- The job – Is the job one that lends itself to working remotely? (Some jobs are easier than others to work remotely from.)
Aetna has got to be the poster child of teleworking: according to the article “10,000 Aetna employees, or 27 percent of the company’s work force, now work from home.”
Teleworking is not an issue reserved for large enterprises, however. Many small businesses face the same issues in deciding whether to have remote workers.
Take, for instance, the small business owners who work out of their homes (from 12 - 15 million, depending on whose numbers you believe). When they bring on employees — or perhaps more commonly, indep
- The Mobile Menagerie RevealedDecember 2
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Via @daveduarte on Twitter a fascinating piece of research from South African based technology research company World Wide Worx about market segments of mobile phone users.
The findings are reported out through identifying user segments based on usage patterns:
“The most obvious difference between the Grassroots and the Lizards, the Playas and the Magpies, and the Sophisticats and the Elephants,” said Goldstuck, “is in the amount they spend on their cell phones every month, as well as the likelihood that they have monthly contracts with a cellular service provider.”
Why did I consider this research interesting to share with TheAppGap readers?
Because it makes me think about individual differences in propensity to communicate, collaborate and engage that drive both individual and project successes and failures in organizations.
We live in a connected world but can’t assume everyone will participate to the same extent, or at the levels needed to ensure an initiative succeeds, can we?
~ Jenny Ambrozek
- More thoughts on adoption strategies for Enterprise 2.0December 2
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Some more thoughts on adoption of an Enterprise 2.0 philosophy within an organisation.
Culture, here, refers to both corporate culture as well as the smaller emergent group dynamics resultant from interaction between individuals at a micro level.
This diagram implies that a successful social media implementation must have culture as its central concern. As technology-only based solutions does not consider culture it is less likely to succeed than the bottom-up or top-down strategic approach as they do not consider the social values and behaviour of either individuals or the organisation itself. That doesn’t necessarily preclude, though, installing technology and allowing a bottom-up process to take hold. This, though, would probably be considered a bottom-up strategy.
With sufficient mass of behaviour, values, and opinion, the suggestion is that the individuals could change the group dynamic enough to affect change within the organisationa