Archive for October, 2007

Consulting Templates …

In for some sunday morning fun? Have a look at this set of templates, “created by a former Senior Consultant at ***********” The fun starts at Slide 19 of 71 – perfect examples of messy thinking turned into powerpoint slides – complete with loads of arrows, circles and other irritating stuff. Well, this might also [...]

New media douchebags

Via Luis Suarez: This is a nice hommage to Lee and Saachi LeFever of Commoncraft (who are making a cool series of little instructional videos, like this, this or this), Kelly Stewart from KommonKraft brings you another take: How to blog, Twitter, podcast, poke, write on Facebook walls and become a new media douchebag. I [...]

Social Networks and Organizational Pathologies …

Irving Wladawsky-Berger contemplates on Social Networks and Organizational Governance, arguing with a case of an “organizational system” that was streamlined too much – losing its senses and its manageability along the way. Check the actual post to see which organization he’s talking about, or take a guess … all in all this fits fine into [...]

Nick Carr on SaaS …

Yesterday evening I was catching up with some boomarked videos, here’s another one worth pointing out: Nick Carr “discussing the business implications of on-demand software with guys from Accenture, Deloitte, Business Objects and Bluewolf”: The discussion revolves around on how IT is deployed and used, where Carr highlights that there is a shift going on [...]

Umbrüche in der Medienindustrie

Matthias Schwenk berichtet von seinen Eindrücken von der Buchmesse. Interessant ist u.a. das hier: Ein Gefälle zeigte sich aber auch in anderer Hinsicht: Während die großen (namhaften) Verlage alle mehr oder weniger stark schon an Konzepten und Strategien arbeiten, die weit über die aktuellen Internetauftritte hinausreichen, fehlt es den kleinen Häusern an Wissen und mehr [...]

What’s the attraction in Facebook?

Via JD Lasica: “Social Media: What’s the attraction in Facebook?”, linking to a piece in the LA Times: Let me highlight the stuff that I thought really important: You can’t change the look and feel of your Facebook page as much as you can on MySpace, but since May you can do something much cooler: [...]

The intriguing world of wikinomics … and democratizing innovation

Two good show this week at Peter Day’s World of Business, one on the democratization of innovation, the other one circling round Wikinomics: This week’s Global Business steps into the intriguing world of “Wikinomics”. It’s all centred on the huge new possibilities of collaboration across time and space brought about the internet. The best known [...]