Category Archives: English

Start with why

At my company e-office I was asked to write a little piece of content about our internal community enterprise2.0 for our website. So we came up with a theoretical epos about Enterprise2.0, McAfee, SLATES, Yellow and Blue and organisational change.

Pauline from marketing responded:”I’ve read this article for 3 times now, but after 2 sentences my mind just wondered off…”  My colleague Matthijs at the other end of the desk (we’ve got large desks with space for about 10 people) overheard this conversation and said: “I had to write the same piece for my community, the TED video about golden circle helped me a lot”.

I just wanted to share this video because selling an enterprise2.0 initiative is not selling what you’re going to do and how, but WHY you’re going to do it.

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Review book IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 planning and implementation

larger coverMy review for the book IBM Lotus Connections 2.5. My conclusion: it covers all the aspects of the implementation, but the book has been written for multiple target audiences.

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Our drivers and motivations

Brilliant visual presentation on people’s drivers. Conclusion is that money is just a big driver when it concerns repeatable tasks. If not the case, the 3 drivers are:

  1. Autonomy: the desire to be self directed,
  2. Mastery: the urge to get better,
  3. Purpose: the feeling you’re doing something meaningful.

Enjoy!

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Evernote, tagging evolved

I love tags and I hate folders, there I said it…

I noticed this when my bookmarks got a little out of control and I couldn’t find my bookmarks in all the folders I had created. Tags give you an option to put different tags on a file, bookmarks or anything else. Because of this searching a bookmark got a lot easier.

The thing is, that I’m not an average user. I noticed that 95% of all the business users love their folders: folders in their mailfile, folders on their harddrive, folders on their shared drive, they just love it!

I have been trying to explain tags with the Files section of Lotus Connections, the Files section of LotusLive and the Bookmarks section of Lotus Connections, but users just don’t seem to get used to it. They want some kind of hierarchy. I actually lost a LotusLive opportunity because users couldn’t store documents in a folder like matter.

And then Evernote enters. Evernote’s got hierarchical tags… brilliant! The beauty is that you can tag the way you’re used to (with al the advantages that comes with that) but you can represent the tags in a way similar to folders (if you like). So people at Lotus Connections, LotusLive etc. this is how tagging should be done, period.

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Why schools kill our creativity

Brilliant presentation from Ken Robinson on why schools kill our creativity. Believe me, these 20 minutes are well spent!

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