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Why all the reluctance? Niche is better than all-in-one for collaborative tools

January 20, 2015 at 4:24 pm

Almost 70 percent of a manager’s ideas are doomed from the very start. Employees cover their ears and wait for the sonic bang to fade away. As a species, human beings suffer from chronic laziness: if something kinda-sorta-maybe works, why […]

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The New Workplace Weekly Digest 16/01

January 16, 2015 at 12:53 pm

Every Friday, we prepare for you a short digest with news covering subjects related to employee engagement, collaboration, organizational culture, knowledge sharing, leadership and the future of work. Follow us on Twitter for the latest news. Here’s this week’s brief: Facebook rolled out its new… …social network – Facebook […]

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Knowledge hoarding is a bad idea. Keeping information to yourself can stop you climb the ladder

January 13, 2015 at 2:21 pm

At 6:30 in the morning, Nate hears the phone ringing. It’s the same Piano Alarm he starts his every damn day. He grabs his phone squinting to find out what’s new on Twitter and on his Facebook Feed. “What should […]

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Wikipedia’s Blunders. Why External Information Sources Mislead You

December 23, 2014 at 11:50 am

Did you know that Robbie Williams eats domestic pets in pubs for money? Or that Miley Cyrus died in September 2008? These hoaxes appeared on the respectable Wikipedia, the information guru we all like to open when in doubt. While […]

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The New Workplace Weekly Digest 19/12

December 19, 2014 at 12:28 pm

Every Friday, we prepare for you a short digest with news covering subjects related to employee engagement, collaboration, organizational culture, knowledge sharing, leadership and the future of work. Follow us on Twitter for the latest news. Here’s this week’s brief: Better understanding the DIKW model… …(Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom) […]

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Effective Tools for Technical Teams

December 16, 2014 at 3:37 am

Among the tools of Stone Age’s Fred Flintstone, collaboration was the most effective. It didn’t always catch him the largest mammoth, but it improved his and Barney Rubble’s chances of bringing home some food for their wives. Several thousands of […]

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The New Workplace Weekly Digest 12/12

December 12, 2014 at 11:28 am

Every Friday, we prepare for you a short digest with news covering subjects related to employee engagement, collaboration, organizational culture, knowledge sharing, leadership and the future of work. Follow us on Twitter for the latest news. Here’s this week’s brief: Knowledge-hiding in the workplace… …prevents colleagues from generating creative […]

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The Half-Century Old Digital Technology Everyone Is (Over)using

December 9, 2014 at 11:41 am

It’s been 43 years since Ray Tomlinson from ARPANET used the „@” character for the first time and sent the first email in history. Since then, walkmans became vintage gear, the 4 kb memory of the first Apple computer is […]

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The New Workplace Weekly Digest 12/05

December 5, 2014 at 12:03 pm

Every Friday, we prepare for you a short digest with news covering subjects related to employee engagement, collaboration, organizational culture, knowledge sharing, leadership and the future of work. Follow us on Twitter for the latest news. Here’s this week’s brief: Workplace communities give employees… …the opportunity to contribute outside […]

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Knowledge Bases Are The Most Effective Self-Service Channels, New Study Finds

December 2, 2014 at 11:17 am

Software Advice, a Gartner company and web-based research and reviews firm that helps businesses find the right knowledge management software for their needs, ran a recent survey that found out that knowledge bases are among the technologies that change customer […]

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