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Re: Oracle Gets Social

Meg Bear — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:34:22 -0000

Congratulations! We are all very excited to see your project succeed. Please be sure to post information about how you are collecting enhancement suggestions when you get that worked out.

Re: Cage Match: Google vs. Facebook

Meg Bear — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:25:42 -0000

I think we are all anxious to see how this plays out. Clearly technology winners are not always about being the best, in tech it is often about who is the biggest.

Both Google and Facebook have a lot to offer in that, as an individual, I get something from them. I agree the key concerns is
1) how do you make it easy for me (don't make me keep inviting people, don't make me keep entering my bio, etc.)
2) what do you give me for my effort? In FB I get the benefit of social interaction, in Google I get really useful tools.
3) What's the "time to value" or "return on investment" for my participation.

Whatever happens with aggregation, I want to see it not just benefit the millions of "new" social networks that want to attempt their "me too" strategies but to also benefit the end user.

As an end user I want control of my own information, I want to say where I send it and how much of my data moves to each new context. If aggregation does not give me that it will cause me to go to the least common denominator with my information and that will make each of the contexts less rich and rewarding.

Re: Why Social Networks Don’t Work for Business

Meg Bear — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:09:10 -0000

Personally, I think that the Wiki/Blog provide content but not context. Its the social network that gives the context for those inside the firewall. Having a wiki with no social context makes it up to me to find that wiki and that is an efficiency issue.

I agree 100% on the "trust" pretext and that inside the firewall increases the trust. Inside the firewall can also help with the social network context. By knowing where you are within the organization (who you work for, what your job is) I can use that information to help give me some context to your thoughts and opinions.

I think its the mix of all these elements that can [will] give exponential value to an organization. I do not think this is an if but a when.

Sure, it will take some time, but it will happen because the crowd will find a way. The expectations already exist for me. Once I know that there is a way to do it better I will not be satisfied going back to the more manual approach. Just as memo's are no longer a common tool in a corporation so too will distribution lists and emails be replaced by the tools of web 2.0.

Re: Why Bans Don’t Work

Meg Bear — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:04:50 -0000

I was recently surprised, listening to a someone in IT [for a very large corporation], who mentioned that their big employee initiative was to add support for IM.

This was not a long time ago, this was less then a year ago, and I found myself horrified that they consider this new.

I am hopeful that IT is learning its lesson and, as you say, realizing that controlling progress by creating bans will not work and will ultimately make them look dumb.

Re: New SaaS Features? Easter Egg or Spam Blast?

Meg Bear — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:34:46 -0000

I'm guessing that the rapid adoption of Connect has done a disservice to your expectations. The initial connect viral adoption was high results for low investment. You got an email, you accepted the email, you sent a few invitations and the saga continued.

The other features require a bit more thinking/work on the part of users and therefore are not as top of mind. Have you forgotten that people are lazy?

Re: Trust No/Every One

Meg Bear — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:28:26 -0000

wow -- great observation. Does begin to feel a bit like a lab experiment where we are the rats...

Re: I Have Firehose A.D.D.

Meg Bear — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:23:50 -0000

what??? I can't hear you .. I'm reading too many blog entries from you guys to know what you are saying.

Re: Power to the People 2.0

Meg Bear — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:23:23 -0000

From one "all about me" person to another -- I agree 100%. Although I do wonder what it might be like to not have to do everything for myself sometimes... Maybe I could have time to read all the interesting stuff you linked to...

Re: More on Workspace Design

Meg Bear — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:22:59 -0000

Jake, don't forget you would also need to shower to come into an office. Just shaving and combing your hair would not be sufficient.

Re: On Ties

Meg Bear — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:28:16 -0000

Jake, its not just your title that has us confused as to what you actually do...

Re: Does Web 2.0 Lead to Laziness?

Meg Bear — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:41:17 -0000

Jake - you forgot the audience participation one -- I'm too lazy to do real work myself so I'll spend my time reading your blog instead.

Re: Decision 07: (more…) vs. More

Meg Bear — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:50:04 -0000

no need to apologize for being busy Jake, I took it as a gift to allow me to catch up on past articles that I was falling behind on reading.

Re: Eight Cell Phones in Ten Years Part 1

Meg Bear — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:55:40 -0000

you forgot that the starTac got very hot when you talked for any length of time and would burn your ear. At least that was what mine did.

Re: Welcome Two (Now Four) More Bloggers

Meg Bear — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:21:42 -0000

gasp! No mention of TalentedApps (http://talentedapps.wordpress.com/) -- say it isn't so Jake!

Re: Remember the “Information Superhighway”?

Meg Bear — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:53:03 -0000

Interesting, I read the CIO article and had that cringe reaction that "man that girl is going to get bloodied". You can't have that kind of writing style and not expect to elicit a strong reaction.

I had the thought that how much of the "GenY" thing is really just about being young and [over]confident. I certainly remember knowing everything when I was just starting in the workforce (and yes I know many stay I still suffer from that disease). Anyway, it was fun entertainment for sure.

As far as the Techra I also had one of those and felt superior about my computing power. I also had a Sun Tadpole in which I enjoyed having my very own root password. Talk about chiropractic, I had to have someone help me get the darn thing onto the rental car shuttle bus as I could not lift the suitcase I had it in for travel.

All this talk about perspective is starting to make me feel old! I think I'm going to post something on "The MyFace" to prove my youth now.

Re: Admit it, we’re all free agents!

Meg Bear — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:57:03 -0000

Thanks Paul for coving a lot of topics near and dear to my heart. I'm sure I'll be tracking back to this post a bit, as I you really are covering a lot of ground here that I'd like to explore.

I also have wished for more success in KM over the years. I personally don't believe it fails due to individuals wanting to horde knowledge. I think that often it fails because it is pushed top down and has never found a way to not put a huge burden on your most strapped resources. I think a more 2.0 approach is exactly what is needed to breathe new fire into the point of KM -- more alignment between self promotion, corporate goals and knowledge capture and sharing is all good in my book.

Re: The iPhone Still Rules

Meg Bear — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:03:50 -0000

Jake, any info on when iphone will have a GPS? That would be a huge help for my "sense of direction disability".

Re: Orablog Tag or 8 Things

Meg Bear — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:07:32 -0000

Rock on Jake!

Re: So Very Tired

Meg Bear — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:49:59 -0000

Jake, my comment on 8 things post still holds. You rock.
- M

Re: David’s Excellent Adventure

Meg Bear — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:32:07 -0000

David, better not put sleep too low on the list or you will not be any good at the list items above. Or maybe that is just a personal problem for me.

Re: Marketing 2.0 Leader Summit Recap

Meg Bear — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:19:09 -0000

Jake, can't believe the KC part of the story. Sounds like a very blonde moment for you!

Re: I Heart TripIt

Meg Bear — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:33:23 -0000

have a great trip Jake, you might want to check the boards to make sure you get the right gate this time.

Re: The Long Tail of Meetings

Meg Bear — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:50:37 -0000

http://despair.com/meetings.html

Re: Why Product Development Should Blog

Meg Bear — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:24:36 -0000

Obviously we are sold on the value of development blogging in Talent. As for finding time, I think I might have personally crossed a line when I was organizing my thoughts for my next blog entry at 3am on Friday morning. Not only was the time just silly, I was only awake because I was burning up with a fever and knew I had to take some tylenol to be up at 5:30am for my youngest to have surgery the next day.

Thanks again Jake for bringing us all on this journey.

Re: DIY Development

Meg Bear — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:50:06 -0000

Jake, Interesting thoughts on this one for me as 1) I don't have a CS degree and somehow manage to be in development and 2) I was just talking with my dad last week mentioning that I don't see this as a career path that my children will have available to them, at least not the way it was for me.

I think your point about US being DIY oriented is valid but not the whole point. I think that software as an industry is changing. I think this is a reflection of that. In the US we like careers that have a large monetary upside. At least when we are young and idealistic/greedy. Thus the boom of MBAs in the 80's when we were told Greed is good and the boom in CS when the dot-com era was upon us. I think that is the real force at play here.

Re: Going around, Coming around

Meg Bear — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:31:32 -0000

That Pedrazzi guy is up to no good these days, or at least that's what I've heard ;-)

-Meg

Re: The Future is iPhone-tastic

Meg Bear — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:33:51 -0000

I am soo looking forward to this, finally something to help with my sense of direction disability...fingers crossed for mothers day.

Re: The Emotional Nature of Software

Meg Bear — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:05:32 -0000

Great day for this post as I've had to re-install and re-work a ton of applications as I "upgrade" my computer. The price of progress is really often too high for me to cope and right now I am totally frustrated as nothing is working correctly [yet].

Re: Collaborate Days 0 and 1

Meg Bear — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:28:34 -0000

In Talent we now have a new product code "HRT" and those of us [ahem] wiser females find this a funny play on Hormone Replacement Therapy. We didn't do this on purpose but did add the joke after the fact.

Re: We Miss You Carl

Meg Bear — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:03:02 -0000

My heart is so sad right now. My world just somehow got smaller for the loss of Carl.

Re: A Posse, I Has One

Meg Bear — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:57:04 -0000

very nice post Jake. Carl's death really hit me hard. Thanks for writing these!

Re: Defrag08 Presentation

Meg Bear — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:14:19 -0000

love the presentation Paul. You make some excellent points, a bit sad you didn't use my digital hermit phrase.

Re: How to Do a Set-Top Box

Meg Bear — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:09:39 -0000

Love Love Love my Tivo. Had a series2, upgraded to HD with the lifetime warranty. I do nothing cool with my Tivo, I don't care about games, I still use a phone line to download data and yet it works like a dream.

I was happy to increase my storage from 40 hours and get HD (and HBO) with my last upgrade. I have said often that Tivo is the best invention of the last 20 years, in my life it is equal to the remote control and far surpasses things like wireless networking and digital cameras (which I love).

My only hope is that Tivo does whatever it takes to not go out of business. I want them to survive. I don't care about the Pizza but the Netflix integration sounds awesome to me. If Tivo doesn't make it I will have regrets similar to my loss of WebVan.

Re: More iPhone Apps

Meg Bear — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:36:02 -0000

too funny, I had no idea. Exitstrategy gets my vote for best name.

Re: “Looks Good, Works Well”

Meg Bear — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:44:43 -0000

well I'm certainly not going to defend ERP applications and their (our) usability track record. I will say, however, that we don't just do usability testing on prototypes, we also do it on the final product and attempt to adjust to what we find. Of course, not always, but at least we do try.

The problem, as I see it, was best described to me that "UE is fashion". It changes regularly, most development of complex systems just can't keep up. Before we get it built it's out of date. The real answer is to have better architectural support for regularly changing (and updating) the UI without the cost of re-doing the application. This makes it easier to adjust to changes both from user feedback and from technology innovations. One of the whole points of a SOA is to isolate the business logic to allow for more rapid and frequent iterations of the presentation layer. Not somewhere we can get overnight but I think we really are trying to set ourselves up for better success in the future.

Re: Google Does and Knows a Lot

Meg Bear — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:48:56 -0000

you didn't mention how you could find google flu trends?

Re: On Browsers

Meg Bear — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:37:11 -0000

have you considered posting a big link on the top when someone is on IE 6 saying "hey does this look like crap, upgrade your browser here (with link of course) and it will be lots better". Most of us don't upgrade b/c a) we don't realize we need to and b) if we figure out we need to we are not sure what/where to go and c) we are lazy

Seems to me you could solve a and b and even some of c with this approach.

Re: Pitch Your Policy Manuals

Meg Bear — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:46:01 -0000

Frank. Thanks for this line, I plan to use this myself at some point "...free to achieve mediocrity elsewhere." Wonderfuly said!

Re: Homegrown Tomatoes

Meg Bear — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:22:15 -0000

Excellent post. I believe that a lot of HR departments would do well to pick one (and only one) thing to focus on and give it time to actually yield results. Seems often companies like the starting of things but not the on going nurturing.

Re: Why I’d Want Usain Bolt on My Team

Meg Bear — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:11:28 -0000

Thanks Frank for showing the courage to change your mind. I find that the most impressive thing in this whole discussion.

Re: 10 Tenets for The New HR

Meg Bear — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:21:52 -0000

you knocked this one out of the park Frank. Awesome post.

Re: You’ll Have to Call Corporate

Meg Bear — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:59:52 -0000

can't help but think of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FIpLWUT3yw

Re: Making better Facebook video 606 pixels at a time

Meg Bear — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:57:50 -0000

and is there a specific camera (or series of cameras) that provides said pixel size?