Agile software development and continuous streams of competitive features (without regard to the actual needs of users) is driving people away from Firefox 5 and the latest editions of Microsoft Office. While subscription based software is all the rage, little is known about the users’ ability to keep up with the flow of changes.
We're publishing our Weekly Newsletter a day early due to the upcoming July 4th Holiday in the U.S. Happy Independence Day! Now, let's set off some Fireworks » Top 100 v1.78: Susan Strayer Susan Strayer, Marriott International's Senior Director, Global Employer Brand and Marketing, is going places fast because of what she accomplishes. In an […]
Susan Strayer, Marriott International’s Senior Director, Global Employer Brand and Marketing, is going places fast because of what she accomplishes. In an extremely short time, Strayer has added dramatic energy to Marriott’s employment branding endeavors.
mBlast is showing something really important about the HR idea marketplace. It extends way beyond the confines of our little echo chamber. HR issues are critical in all businesses and the general trade press cover unemployment, recruiting, talent management, training, succession planning, compensation, performance management, labor markets, skills deficits, talent wars and a host of HR issues.
I love Dave Winer. Here’s how he summarizes the internal development process when big companies go after successful upstarts. If you’ve worked for a bigco, you’ve been to this meeting: CTO: We need to kill Facebook. CEO: What will we do? CTO: It can’t just be Facebook. CTO: No one will use that. CEO: It […]
Colin W. Kingsbury is the president and co-founder of HRM Direct, a leading SaaS provider of applicant tracking and onboarding systems to mid-sized organizations. Colin brings a lifetime of experience from both in and outside of the software industry, having previously held positions in product management, software engineering, sales, and as a newspaper journalist with […]
Today, my inbox started its own form of acceleration. I joined Monster’s new BeKnown network last night to stay on top of the flow in social media products. Beknown is Foursquare meets LinkedIn on the Facebook platform. Beknown is professional networking with badges and accomplishments. It’s easy to dismiss the concept as derivative and unnecessary. After all, LinkedIn was there first and turning professional networking into a game could well have unintended consequences. And, who needs another social media time sink? But that sort of misses the point.
Here are two head-turning links from the web this week that will make you step back and think twice. The Web Is Shrinking from Ben Elowitz, CEO of Wetpaint and A Day Without Distraction from Cal Newport.
Check out: The Web Is Shrinking.. Fascinating stats on the overall growth of the web. If you take away Facebook’s astonishing growth rates, the rest of the web is actually shrinking. That means the older style web, rooted in documents and static pages is in decline. The article goes on to make a distinction between […]
Top 25 Online Influencers in Leadership v3 2011 With influence, it is increasingly difficult to see the impact of the old guard because most people use search engines to discover things. That's where online influence comes in, and with it, our attempts to measure and define it. This is the 12th Top 25 Influencers List […]
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