Yesterday a blog post from JP Rangaswami got me thinking about the increasing value of an honest recommendation. Today a LinkedIn post by danah boyd got me thinking (a little bit more) about the future of work and some blurring lines (and also about what a dream job would look like!). Combined, they also got … Continue reading »
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Stowe Boyd on why the future of work is cooperative
As I’ve shared here before, about a week ago I participated in the Social Now event where I got the opportunity to finally meet face-to-face Stowe Boyd, one of the best thinkers about the future of businesses and work. Stowe did the closing keynote of the event and if you want a summary & tweetable … Continue reading »
E20 Summit: the challenges of enabling the digital workplace
The Enterprise 2.0 Summit that took place last week in Paris featured a series of discussion panels dedicated to debating key concepts and challenges around the E2.0 theme. I was invited to participate in the panel entitled “Digital Workplace Framework”, aiming to shed some light on the building blocks & framework of the digital workplace, … Continue reading »
The Future of Work @ Startup Pirates
When my friends at the Startup Pirates project invited me to come and talk about The Future of Work at their September 2012 event in my hometown of Porto, my immediate answer was yes. I’ve been interested for some time now about this topic, especially in what concerns the impact of new technologies and of … Continue reading »
Is the future of organizations individual disruption?
June was packed with interesting and inspiring conversations. Social Business Forum 2012, Switch Conference and Social Now provided the venues for meeting for the first time, or encountering again, some very smart folks. Themes range from social business, the future of organizations and work to life, goals, books, communities and challenges. In many cases, the … Continue reading »
Change agents at the office!
The concept is not new but maybe you have never heard of it. I’ve been musing about it for some time now. In fact, this is a long overdue post! I remember it coming back to my mind when reading The Power of Pull… Continue reading »
Book review: The Power of Pull
In an era still pretty much dominated by push – managers push tasks onto employees, brands push messages and products onto consumers… – John Hagel, John Seely Brown and Lang Davison invite us to change our perspectives and embrace the power of pull in their recent book “The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, … Continue reading »
The future of work vision by Podio
There’s ample debate today around the need for a change in the way we work and how the future of work will look like. The reasons for this topic to be increasingly talked of usually come to reasons such as: the tools we currently use fail to really help us get work done in a … Continue reading »
Book review: Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky
Every once in a while you come across one of those books that goes beyond the mere collection of anecdotes or examples on “hot” topics. “Here Comes Everybody” by Clay Shirky is one of those books. We now have communications tools that are flexible enough to match our social capabilities, and we are witnessing the … Continue reading »
That’s not my name: the ties of the new social
“…the information we give off about our selves… has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other…”, Clay Shirky in “Here Comes Everybody” Last week I was invited to attend an informal after work gathering organized and communicated via Twitter. During most part of the event I stood … Continue reading »
