Archive for the 'On social media' Category
Things are changing in Norway – or maybe not – it is election time and either the current government will be sitting or they will not. The Norwegian national assembly, Stortinget is to be elected on Sunday sept 13th and Monday sept 14th. It is currently relatively open which parties that are to establish a coalition (or [...]
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Tags: norway, politics
The power of blogging
Equals zero if nobody reads what you write. How to get readers? (1) Post frequently, (2) post relatively short, crisp and to the point and (3) include a picture (preferably of your boots, boobs (see my last post) or other body parts if you are female) is the top three advices.
Since my sencond last post [...]
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Tags: collaboration
Recently there was a case in Norway (the first in our country that I know) where profiled Norwegian blogger Vampus tweeted “cleaned out my desk and ready for new challenges”. She was just internally reorganized in her company, and most certainly did not quit – at least not by communicating to her boss via Twitter.
The [...]
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Tags: enterprise collaboration, management, Social media
Sorry SecondLife
Ok, I admit, I have forgotten all about SecondLife, Linden Dollars and avatars in my recent research on social media.
In a class called collaboration at Uni three years ago I visited another 3D-world, and today (after being ticked off by a colleague) i joined SecondLife and now officially have an avatar called TigerOfNorway Riddler (why [...]
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In this blog post I criticize journalists for being to tabloid and immediate referendums thrown at the people for contributing to stupidity. Here goes.
According to the biggest newspaper in Norway there was a Norwegian girl who first reacted to the new terms from Facebook and eventually gathered enough support to get them changed. This time [...]
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The media sector has since the dot-com been in a changing world. This week it is also evident in Norway. Schibsted, the leading Norwegian media conglomerate said they need to cut 750 mill NOK, most due to plummeting advertising revenues (and some due to failed Classified Ad initiative in Spain). This is not a unique [...]
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Building on my post yesterday, defining a collaborative culture, a colleague notified me of the Gartner Quadrant from 2007 that already has made the connection between collaboration and social software. since someone already put it out, here it is again:
However this quadrant is now getting old, and it has also recieved some critics, for the fact that it does [...]
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Tags: Atlassian, Confluence, Gartner, Magic quadrant, Moss 2007
Defining a collaborative culture
I have earlier blogged on social media and changing the culture. As social media is often about new forms of online collaboration, I now add collaboration (not as in collaborationism, but as in collaboration at work) as such to that mix. Every project manager ought to know that to create a culture for collaboration is [...]
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Tags: collaboration, Social media
I am a great TED fan, no doubt! How many of you are going to TED? I read that you need an invite (someone want to issue me one maybe?). But really, who cares about travelling around the globe to sit in, it is a lot of hazzle leaving your kids lonely and it polluteslike [...]
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Tags: conference organizers, Social media, venue
I have spent the last couple of weeks learning more about social media and how it is going to change the world and in fact how it IS changing the world. There are numerous industries affected, the publishing industry, the computer industry, the conferencing and event industry, the salesforce in any industry, maybe even the [...]
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Tags: On changing industries, publishing
