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Rulers of the Cloud: Google Becomes the Cloud, Search is a Feature
In some organizations, you may never get such a luxury. It's "open" mantra gives the company the ability to see a whole generation into the future of information channel disruption. Here is our list of organizations in the world that Google has, is, or will be, continually bumping into in its quest for cloud information dominance. The shortest way to describe this is that Google is no longer a verb. It's becoming a noun.
ReadWriteWeb - Friday, March 19, 2010
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Labotec Raises Funding For Crowd-Sourced Mobile App Development Venture
The ‘Inspirer’ (the person or organization that brought forward the idea for the app) doesn’t pay a cent, but if the app ends up generating revenue, the first $25,000 that it makes goes to Labotec – no matter how long it took to get to that point. Miami, Florida-based Labotec has landed a round of funding from Kima Ventures , a European early-stage investment fund founded by entrepreneurs and angel investors Jeremie Berrebi (Zlio, Net2One) and Square backer Xavier Niel (Free, Iliad). The VC firm thus joins Kipost and FS Ventures as investors
TechCrunch - Thursday, March 18, 2010
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Apple Patents: Your Next iPhone Doubles as a Walkie Talkie
What Apple's essentially suggesting is that in future iPhone tech you'd be able to voice-SMS someone, with an electronic voice recognition and generation system handling the data-to-audio conversions at either end. The uses for this are potentially very powerful: Imagine setting up a system that auto-identifies attendees of a conference, and gives the organizer the chance to bulk-SMS them. Apple's putting up iPhone patents at an incredible rate: Two new applications, one for a walkie-talkie-like accessibility feature and another for a spontaneous wireless social network are very sophisticated.
Fast Company - Thursday, March 18, 2010
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  • The Generation M Manifesto
    My generation would like to break up with you. hate labels, but I'm going to employ a flawed, imperfect one: Generation "M." What do the "M"s in Generation M stand for? It is, as I've repeatedly pointed out, in our institutions: the rules by which our economy is organized. Dear Old People Who Run the World , Everyday, I see a widening gap in how you and we understand the world — and what we want from it.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, July 8, 2009
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  • The Über-Connected Organization: A Mandate for 2010
    Think about your organization and ask yourself these two questions: If you answered yes, then your organization is one of the majority of firms with over 100 employees that have yet to embrace the use of social media in the workplace for the average worker. In a study conducted by Robert Half Technology entitled " Whistle But Don't Tweet At Work ," many organizations are struggling with how to integrate social media into the workplace. Are external social media sites restricted or blocked while at work? Is the use of social media in the workplace inhibited or frowned
    HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, November 11, 2009
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  • Are You Ready to Manage Five Generations of Workers?
    According to the World Health Organization, men and women who are healthy at 60 will, on average, be physically capable of working until they are 74 and 77 , respectively. This translates into a social phenomenon not yet witnessed: five generations are about to be working side by side. Due to their smaller size, Gen X will never have the majority spot in the workplace — and so in essence, we will Does retirement look a little further off now than it did just a few years ago? If you are over 62, odds are you're putting off retirement at least two to three years, and you
    HarvardBusiness.org - Friday, October 16, 2009
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  • Are You Fun to Follow on Twitter?
    This one described an experiment organized by the Washington Post in 2007. Tags: Communication Generational issues Social medi There's an art to tweeting. And, I'm sorry to say, most people just haven't mastered it. Twitter, for the few uninitiated out there, is a social networking site that limits your posts to 140 characters.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, February 2, 2010
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  • Continuous Brand Management for Generation 10:45
    What will the "10:45 generation" expect? Second, Generation 10:45 will desire transparent service. Why can't you and your organization show that same level of transparency? Tags: Branding Generational issues Technolog The Kaiser Foundation recently released a study documenting the astounding fact that 8-18 year olds in the United States have increased their media use from 8 hours and 33 minutes' worth of usage per day in 2004 to 10 hours and 45 minutes' worth in 2009. Regardless of whether you think this is bad news signaling the demise of our society, or good
    HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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  • Social Media Usage Policies: Less Lawyering, More Encouraging
    social media policy is a must-have in virtually any organization, given the sheer newness of the idea. You can find inspiration for your social media policy in this terrific example from Mashable's recent post on 3 Great Social Media Policies to steal from, in the policy highlighted in their earlier post on social media policy musts , or in the very long and organized directory from Social Media Governance. Tags: Generational issues Human resources Social medi "Do you spend much time on Facebook?" It was a standard question in our hiring process, but the job candidate
    HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, October 8, 2009
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  • What Does Your Facebook Profile Say About You?
    This effect extends beyond senior managers to peer relationships deeper in the organization. Tags: Generational issues Social media Work life balanc We were talking to the VP for online strategy at a big Silicon Valley company last week. Among other tasks she helps the company's senior executives create a presence on Facebook and Twitter. "Some
    HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, May 13, 2009
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  • Let Gen Y Teach You Tech
    Once derided as sandboxes for Gen Y slackers, messaging and social networking sites are the new soapboxes, organizing centers, town halls and, as the recent events in Iran have shown , an increasingly powerful news source. Just look at a single photo of a rally on www.youtube.com/citzentube to see hundreds of hands raised in the air and holding a cell-phone camera to get a sense of how tech-savvy this generation is," says Steve Grove, head of news and politics for YouTube (now owned by Google). "Now This post was co-authored by Laura Sherbin and Karen Sumberg. You You say
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, June 29, 2009
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  • Why Generation X Has the Leaders We Need Now
    William Strauss and Neil Howe, coauthors of Generations , posit that each generation makes a unique bequest to those that follow and generally seeks to correct the excesses of the previous generation. They argue that the Boomer excess is ideology and that the Generation X reaction to that excess involves an emphasis on pragmatism and effectiveness. As many The book I've written based on those conversations, safely in the hands of the publisher and due out in December, includes many of your voices - including quotes from your responses to posts on this site. Through this
    HarvardBusiness.org - Sunday, July 19, 2009
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  • Why We Need Big Organizations
    "Bye, bye, organization guy." That compels big institutions to re-conceive their operations, organization, and strategy through the talent lens , especially as competitive pressures continue to intensify and performance deteriorates--long-term trends documented in our recently released Shift Index. Not only could such a large institution get bigger but--because of the collaboration curve --it would generate increasing returns to scale, accelerating growth for both individuals and the firm. Those words start the first chapter in the estimable Daniel Pink's Free Agent Nation , published in 2007.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, August 11, 2009
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