An online notebook
Slack’s success has always been a bit surprising because it’s facing off against giants like Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Cisco, Salesforce and many others, all gunning for this upstart’s market. In fact, Microsoft is giving Teams away for free to Office 365 customers. You could say it’s hard to compete with free, yet Slack continues to … Keep reading
Another week in which technology seems the least important thing in the world. Still, I’ve got nothing else to give, so here goes. Join the DH digital communities and channels team – two great jobs going on a great team at the Department of Health. Slack is raising another $500 million — and has attracted … Keep reading
Michael Coté has written an excellent post describing seven anti-patterns of behaviour in big organisations. Number six is a particularly egregious crime, in my view: Pay people to ignore them — BigCo’s love hiring new employees, paying them well, and then rarely listening to them. Instead, you hire outsiders and consultants who say similar things, but are listened … Keep reading
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Great talk here from the Google Atmosphere conference by Rachel Miller, author of the excellent All Things IC blog. She talks about the ways social is being used within organisations to transform the way organisations communicate and get stuff done. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lIazuTFOz0&w=560&h=315] Well worth a watch!