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Business reimagined
I was chatting the other day to my pal Dave Coplin from Microsoft who told me he was deep into writing a new book. Awesome! It made me go and look back at his previous one, Business Reimagined (free on…
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Five for Friday – 21 March 2014
Five for Friday is WorkSmart’s weekly roundup of interesting stuff from the week’s reading. Can People Collaborate Effectively While Working Remotely? 7 Predications for the Future of Work Startup culture hacks The power of technology for learning and why creating…
Another podcast!
Today I was at #barcampnfp – a rather fun unconference for people working in charities and other not (just) for profit organisations. I was flying the flag for TaskSquad, the fantastic youth employment startup that Mary McKenna is leading, and…
Link roundup
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: The power of technology for learning and why creating together is better | Helen Milner Barcamp NotForProfits | dxw (I’ll be there representing @tasksquadhq) Digital local government: a future in Google…
The Workplace – Q and A site for your career
I recently came across The Workplace – a question and answer site for people who go to work. It’s built on the Stack Exchange platform – which has considerable success in building knowledge communities, particularly around techy topics. I personally…
So, you think you want social media training?
Increasingly, following a bit of a chat, it turns out you don’t. I’ve been delivering training on digital tools, including social media, for a fair few years now. I’d like to think I’m quite good at it, and that those…
Working openly on the web
There was a nice guest post from Doug Belshaw from Mozilla on Brian Kelly’s blog last week. Entitled What Does Working Openly on the Web Mean in Practice?, it told us a bit about Mozilla’s culture of openness and how…
Simple private mobile communities with Glassboard
Glassboard is a neat cross platform (iOS, Android, Web) app that helps people to communicate within teams while on the move. You download the app – or use the web version – and create a ‘board’ which is where you…
WorkSmart podcast – Episode 1 : The rough and ready first attempt
In this first effort at podcasting, I talk about podcasting. Oh, and audiobooks, and an actual paper book, too. With thanks to Lloyd Davis for the inspiration. Listen using the player below: Or you can: Download the mp3 Subscribe to…
Add-ons for Google Docs and Sheets
Google has snuck out some rather cool new functionality to its cloud based productivity suite Google Drive. Called add-ons, you can now use them to add extra functionality to your Google Docs and Spreadsheets experience. Here’s a video explaining it…
Five for Friday – 14 March 2014
Five for Friday is WorkSmart’s weekly roundup of interesting stuff from the week’s reading. About change, defaults and disruption – “large organisations are racing against start-ups to stay relevant”. Great stuff from Anne McCrossan Creating a minimum viable product using…
Tame your Twitter stream
Not sure how I had never come across this before, but Tame is super useful! You set up an account as with all these services, and then connect to your Twitter account. Tame then goes away and comes back with…
WIN! ‘The Myth of Innovation’ by Scott Berkun
The Myth of Innovation by Scott Berkun is a great read on the topic of technology and innovation. It’s little Ruth’s favourite bedtime read! From the blurb: This updated paperback edition of the classic bestseller, takes you on a hilarious,…
Capsule – the acceptable and useful face of CRM
‘CRM’ or customer relationship management is one of those IT phrases that can put the fear of God into people, and with good reason. There aren’t many people who have managed to avoid the organisational carnage that attempts to deploy…
Putting together an online course
As part of the membership perks of WorkSmart (not got your membership yet? Sign up here!) I am putting together a free online course on digital personal productivity. Something to look forward to then, but also an opportunity for me…
Creative facilitation
Facilitation is one of those odd skills, or activities, where it is very hard to define, but you tend to know when it is being done well, or indeed badly. Viv McWaters and Johnnie Moore are two people who can…
Social tool implementation strategies: Part 1 – cobble free stuff
This is the first part in a series on different strategies for implementing social software within your organisation. They will be published every other Monday morning for the next few weeks. When they are all published, I will collect them…
Five for Friday – 7 March 2014
Five for Friday is WorkSmart’s weekly roundup of interesting stuff from the week’s reading. Attention, Please! PC Programs to Stave Off Distraction – can technology help you stop wasting time with technology? Oppia – a Google 20% project to “enable…
Simplifying complex work
Yves Morieux gives a really interesting TED talk here on how to reduce the complexity of modern day work. He has six rules to help make this happen: Understand what your colleagues actually do. Remove rules: Reinforce the “integrators” Integrators…
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