Why Twitter Favorites Aren’t Really Your Favorite Tweets
Twitter is an ephemeral service. It’s what I love about Twitter. When I’m in the mood to consume what my world is telling me right now I can “tune in” to Twitter and digest the rapid stream. I don’t really worry about missing stuff. If somebody wanted me to see something they’d @ message [...]
Three Ways to Use Linkedin for Social Sales
I’m a big fan of Linkedin, I use it several times a week and when I announce what I’m working on (which I will do within a few days) it will become even more clear why it’s been so useful to me. I have three favorite uses for Linkedin: Finding relevant people to connect with, [...]
Why BranchOut is a Better Recruiting Solution than LinkedIn (Hint: It’s Social)
“68 percent of people who understand HTML prefer nonfiction, compared with 48 percent of people in general.” Based on a survey of 44 people who know HTML and 116 people in general. – from Correlated.org Correlated.org is a new site that helps discover unexpected correlations between seemingly unrelated things. It’s fascinating how they develop the [...]
The Enterprise Social Goodness
Ever since the word “social” became a famous consumer token that is overused and overhyped every minute of every day, the business world started wondering about how to build an enterprise social network that had all the right and relevant component…
Social Recruiting – 3 Questions Answered
One of the pressing questions surrounding social media these days is it’s applicability to recruiting and other people management processes within an organization. Specifically, there is an ethics debate around how much of the Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter data are employers allowed to discover, request and use in the hiring process. Today I see organizations [...]
Performance Reviews – Infographic
A simple Linkedin poll asked few questions about performance reviews and here’s the result – top management still thinks of performance reviews as “time consuming” and employees consider it to be one of the most stressful times of the year. Nobody fin…
The Guy Who Took on Google (and now LinkedIn): Mike Yavonditte
This is an interview you’re not going to want to miss, I promise. Mike is a no BS guy, has all the attributes I look for in a founder and says things like, openly shares knowledge and opines without a filter including this one, “whoever invented uncapped convertible debt should be spanked!” Love it. [...]
More than just another microblogging tool – tibbr
Earlier this week I attended the UK launch event for just another Twitter style microblogging tool for the enterprise like Chatter or Yammer or Signals inside SocialText. This one’s called tibbr. Some people would have been underwhelmed and said “so what?”, but I got excited – I can see some huge potential here, and I’d [...]
InMaps – a priceless gem
LinkedIn released InMaps this week, a very nice visualisation method that divides your linkedIn network in companies, networks, groups, etcetera. I think it’s fantastic. I try to keep a moderate network on LinkedIn as well, and it’s depicted above. My Capgemini network is up there, ex-Capgemini people, my University friends, my Highschool alumni, my LinkedIn [...]
Advertising – paying for our free(mium) world for how long?
Ads – no wiki definition needed this time I think. I recommended TweetCaster to Thijs Muis the other day, for Android, and the first thing he said after installing it was: @MartijnLinssen has ads! Not my app so far, but @tweetdeck isn’t the best either. I don’t see ads anymore. Well maybe I see them, [...]
The Dreaded Predictions List
Ahhhh, December – how I love thee. I have this annual tradition in December where I completely suspend work for the last two weeks of the month, and I spend time assessing the past year (how I performed on personal goals; I’m big on writing down goals, etc), and plan out the coming 12 months [...]
Innovation Mullet: Simple in the Front, Complex in the Back
On a LinkedIn discussion, someone asked: “Structured or un-structured innovation. Which works better?” There are a number of ways that could be answered. I look at it this way: What’s the simplest structure you can live with? I’m focusing on the application of simplicity as much possible in the innovation process. But I’m also a [...]
Sales 2.0: The Swiss Army Knife Needs to be Expanded
Normally I leave the sales punditry to those trying to sell telemarketing services or the next greatest sales methodology. At times these sales to Sales pitches feel like the latest management fads I so often witnessed while working at A.T. Kearney. But occasionally a “sales” strategy” article motivates me to act. As he often does, [...]
API, API, API, API, API, API
If you imagined a tech CEO or an evangelist or a pundit jumping up and down like Steve Ballmer and shouting “API, API, API, API, API…….”, it may come true faster than you ever expected. In this cloud based world where every service wants to be a platform (see my PaaS Is The Future of [...]
The Toxic Nature of Email
I haven’t written a blog post in a week. I travelled for a couple of days for work and decided to get some sleep on those days rather than staying up into the wee hours as I often do when I travel. I closed one deal (I’ll talk about that soon) and issued one term [...]
