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I had a number of interesting conversations with readers, colleagues, and vendors last week, some inspired by posts published here, particularly Shadow IT is growing because everything is IT, BYOD, and various discussions around the idea of placeforms (markeplace + platforms = placeforms). I think these are all working together to indicate a shifting of [...] Read more »

My old friend Dion Hinchcliffe threw out a tantalizing statistic in a piece that started like this: When they write the history of the early days of the networked era, it will be noted that the centralization of technology services in most enterprises largely ended within a few decades of the arrival of the Internet. Networked [...] Read more »

Even as connections are loosening in business, new placeforms come forward to reconnect us. Read more »

How much is the growth of freelancing driven by the desire for autonomy and personal achievement, and how much is escaping the prison of job dissatisfaction? Read more »

Talent is scarce, and file sharing and task management are here to stay. Read more »

A recent research study has shown that people using social networks are more productive when they are allowed to choose what sort of communication to use with others. The idea is that we're increasingly moving to a more fast-and-loose style of work, where people are dreaming up exactly how to get work done. Read more »

I was heads down working last week, catching up with the world in the way that always follows international travel (I was in Lisbon the week before: see The Future Of Work In A Social World – Part 1). So I was somewhat distracted, and merely logged a long list of announcements from product companies [...] Read more »

Most of the time, writing about social business revolves around foreground activities, like how people might use new tools, or actions that leaders can take to coax a company’s culture along, step by step. But a few things from last week cause me to reflect on the possibilities for social tools and practices that take [...] Read more »

I reported on a Silk Road survey on employee engagement this past week, which showed a stark reality: employees are disengaged at work, and companies aren’t doing much about it (see New survey on employee engagement finds Millennials least engaged). [from the Silk Road web site] A full 86 percent of employers are feeling the negative effects of [...] Read more »