On May 31st I'll be presenting at Enterprise.Next - "The Future of ITSM" Social Media & Cloud Computing. The event is in Ottawa Ontario and is hosted by itSMF Canada. itSMF is a forum for Information Technology professionals to explore methods of continually improving the delivery of IT services. I'm looking forward to speaking to an audience that is responsible for the delivery of technology to clients, as these are the people who are really in the trenches.
Session Title: How a New Generation of Software Is Helping Colleagues Work Together
Abstract: If you are you still using email and file attachments to try and get work done, it's time to evolve your business toolkit. Learn how social networking and collaboration tools such as microblogging, wikis, and profiles are helping transform the way employees share information and help their organizations succeed.
Comparing the Various Flickr Account Types
Tue, May 21st 2013 9:10a Alan Lepofsky On May 20th Flickr announced their new design as well as new account plans and storage options. As a long time Flickr Pro user, there are a few things I wanted to understand before making a decision about how I'll use Flickr in the future. Since I was finding it difficult to understand the changes, I created the following spreadsheet and asked the world to help me fill it in. (go crowd-sourcing!) I had always used a Pro account because of the need for more than 300MB of storage, but now wit [read] Keywords: facebook
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It’s Important To have Intelligent @Mentioning
Tue, Apr 30th 2013 11:50a Alan Lepofsky As the size of our social networks grow (meaning we connect with more people) it's important that the tools we use make it simple to interact with the right people at the right time. (context matters!) I've found that some collaboration platforms do this well, while others do not. Here is a good example from Yammer. Notice when I type "@k" it first suggests Kevin Young, he is not the only person in my network who's name starts with K, but he is person I interact with most frequently. Th [read] Keywords: collaboration
facebook
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Socialcast Adds Integrated Social Task Management
Thu, Apr 18th 2013 11:00a Alan Lepofsky Today SocialCast by VMware announced the new version of their enterprise social networking platform. The main new feature of this release is the integration of Social Task Management, which they are calling Socialcast Projects. As you know, I've been preaching about the benefits of Social Task Management for quite some time, so clearly I am happy to see Socialcast provide this new element to their product. With this new enhancement people using Socialcast will be able to more easily to organise [read] Keywords: enterprise
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WorkinBox By Tylr Mobile Brings Email and CRM Together
Wed, Apr 17th 2013 10:30a Alan Lepofsky Today Tylr Mobile unveiled WorkinBox, an iPhone application designed to help sales professionals by bringing together email (via IMAP) and CRM (currently Salesforce.com) information. Unlike so many of today's startups who pontificate about the evils of email, WorkinBox embraces the fact that email is a critical tool for Sales professionals. They recognise that the problem with email is that it does not contain all the information Sales people need about an account or opportunity, as that inf [read] Keywords: application
citrix
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Video Interview On Purposeful Collaboration
Sat, Apr 6th 2013 8:00a Alan Lepofsky The following five minute video was recorded following my keynote on Purposeful Collaboration at Oracle CloudWorld Mumbai on April 2nd, 2013. Note: the caption for the first question is incorrect, they asked "How has collaboration changed..." not "How has Constellation (where I work) changed..." [read] Keywords: collaboration
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The Rise of Purposeful Collaboration: From Simply Sharing to Getting Work Done
Tue, Apr 2nd 2013 8:33a Alan Lepofsky The Rise of Purposeful Collaboration From Simply Sharing to Getting Work Done Collaboration tools enable people to discover and interact with, the content, colleagues and communities, that can help them get their jobs done. Purposeful collaboration from Alan Lepofsky Culture, Technology and Business Practices are evolving to adapt to todayâs more social working environment. The first era of enterprise social was about collaborating more effectively by working more trans [read] Keywords: collaboration
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In Google We (Don’t) Trust
Fri, Mar 22nd 2013 2:20p Alan Lepofsky This week Google made two product announcements that generated a lot of press. The first is that it would be shutting down Google Reader on July 1, 2013. The second was the introduction of Google Keep, which people are referring to as the evolution of Google Notebook and a competitor for Evernote. (more on that below) The closing of Google Reader has infuriated many people the tech community who have in turn stated they won't look at future Google offerings (like Keep) because they no lo [read] Keywords: notes
rich text
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Saba Summit 2013: Getting Back To Their Strengths In Learning and Development
Sat, Mar 9th 2013 8:40a Alan Lepofsky This past week in San Francisco Saba held their annual customer conference, Saba People Summit. After several hours of meetings with their executive team, my primary take away is that Saba is returning their focus (in both product development and in marketing) to their core strengths in Learning (formal and informal) and Development (ex: career planning, improving skills, etc.) This is a shift from the 2012 summit, where they launched Saba People Cloud (SPC), which they referred to as: "The fir [read] Keywords: collaboration
development
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