On Corporate IT–All That Is Bad
I’m a volunteer firefighter here in New Zealand. As well as doing all the operational firefighting stuff, I have some responsibility for administration within the brigade and externally. As part of this role I have to utilize Fire Service systems and email. Which is where the trouble begins. Being an independent entity in my work-life, [...]
Wirearchy – preferred by entrepreneurs
A good while ago Jon Husband introduced me to the concept of Wirearchy. With the benefit of hindsight, Wirearchy is an (emerging) organizing principle for this new environment in which interconnected networks of people carry out the full range of human activities, …. commerce, work, research, education, gossip, news. was a well-chosen description of [...]
The Great Open Dilemma
Image via CrunchBase Now Cloud Computing vendors are increasingly embracing “openness” in their products and platforms. The adoption is a result of demand for openness among the users and any vendor who try to lock-in users’ data inside a proprietary enclosure faces the real danger of losing out in the competitive marketplace. Openness has moved from [...]
Email is Still Not Dead, Thank You.
Yet-another-email-is-dead article, this time on SocialMediaToday, originally on OnlineMarketerBlog. The author adds Microblogging's increasing popularity to the standard "reusable" arguments: people using IM, or increasingly SMS, and most recently Facebook instead of email which they find cumbersome, slow and unreliable – hence email usage will decline. I beg to disagree as I did before and [...]
