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Re: Back Up Your Entire OpenClaw State to Backblaze B2

dankeldsen — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:37:24 -0000

Nicely done! This is very timely given how unbelievably fast experiments like OpenClaw are getting released.

And being fully looped in to the unique issues of compaction and safety snapshots are incredibly useful little details.

/Dan

Re: LinkedIn Event Inviter

dankeldsen — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 21:30:20 -0000

Hi - is there a way to withdraw event invites? I have a stack of 700 to get rid of.

Re: FedEx Cancels Amazon Contract — Amazon Sets Its Sights on Logistics Vertical

dankeldsen — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 17:19:29 -0000

Hi Shelly - thanks, yes, the company store analogy came to mind for me too. Very interesting to watch the continuing experiments from Amazon - the breadth of what Amazon does changes constantly, eh?

And I was just thinking the same thing about comments on sites directly. Replying on twitter or elsewhere just seems awfully lightweight when talking about serious subjects.

Cheers,
Dan

Re: FedEx Cancels Amazon Contract — Amazon Sets Its Sights on Logistics Vertical

dankeldsen — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 14:08:15 -0000

Shelly - agree - there have been trial balloons floating from Amazon on doing their own last mile shipping in particular, for some time now. Seemed pretty clear they wanted to "own" logistics from the front-end screen to hand-off to a customer.

What do you make of the recent announcement to fund current Amazon employees to quit and start their own shipping companies, a big satellite of partners that augment Amazon's own shipping capabilities? (see https://techcrunch.com/2019... )

Seems like a sideways path into becoming the Uber of Logistics, but looking at the reported annual pay people would end up with... yikes, seems like all the risk goes to the individual operators and the benefits flow primarily to Amazon.

What's your take?

Cheers,
Dan

Re: The BEST Thing About Self-Publishing

dankeldsen — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 15:44:29 -0000

James - how do you pursue international publication rights? Have you compiled a list of international publishers/contacts?

Re: What is TRIZ? (Hint – It’s an Innovation Toolkit You Can’t Afford to Ignore)

dankeldsen — Sun, 12 Jun 2016 13:21:30 -0000

Greggy - the link you're referring to is not a template, it's an analysis (done quite thoroughly) of a specific example of the TRIZ toolkit to demonstrate to breakdown a series of contradictions to find better solutions. Great stuff - but not a template.

Re: What is TRIZ? (Hint – It’s an Innovation Toolkit You Can’t Afford to Ignore)

dankeldsen — Sat, 11 Jun 2016 13:49:47 -0000

Sunni - all of the TRIZ materials mentioned in this article are within the online course, Applied Innovation with TRIZ. Highly recommend the course - it's helped hundreds of people working in highly competitive industries, become explosively innovative. Registration for the course is available 24/7 at https://iaiuniversity.com/r...

Re: Time to ditch generational thinking?

dankeldsen — Fri, 21 Aug 2015 09:19:31 -0000

Mallory - Thank you for the very in-depth review of our book, The Gen Z Effect. You pulled out and explained nearly exactly the same examples I would've used for managers, executives and workers in the Banking Industry.

I especially enjoyed that Lifehacking and Crowdfunding made it's way into your review, and seemingly, without controversy. I get signs of both support and pushback from people working within the Finance industry around the idea of Crowdfunding.

Thanks again for the thorough review, and while it may not be "light" reading for the beach, I've seen a fair number of people working their way through it from the beaches of New England.

Cheers,
Dan

Re: Share Your Insights: The Future of Education

dankeldsen — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 17:54:00 -0000

MOOCs are a part of the ongoing and accelerating revolution in re-thinking how we handle education. The combination of personalized pacing and dynamic/adaptive learning models, that leverage what we've learned about how people do and do not learn, are finally snapping into place.

This is an area we focus on in The Gen Z Effect: The Six Forces Shaping the Future of Business (Bibliomotion, November 2014) - we call this force Adopting the World As My Classroom. Every moment is a potential learning moment. Every marketing/advertising interaction, every sales interaction, every "official" teaching/education moment, etc..

A 6 Minute Overview of the Six Forces can be seen in this fast-paced YouTube video we've put together:
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

The Gen Z Effect will be shipping from Amazon this week, or from other booksellers on 11/11/14.

I would LOVE to hear from people who are within companies that are using any of the techniques we talk about - peer-to-peer or employee-to-employee learning, adaptive/dynamic learning, MOOCs, and more. Please feel free to get in touch with me via your favorite communications tool. I'm quite easy to find.

Re: {title}

dankeldsen — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 21:22:23 -0000

Nice, wide-ranging perspective on sales. At the core, using analytics (ideally) or at the least, refining your approach over time is key.

I found Dan Pink's "To Sell is Human" to be remarkably well lined up with my own approach - so much so, that I interviewed him to talk about the book and his approach across his career, to understanding human behavior.

See/hear the interview at https://www.youtube.com/wat... - and comment using #TSIHgiveaway to be eligible to win 1 of 5 signed copies of his book. Well worth it, for those who have thought that "traditional" sales tactics have gone the way of the Blackberry... ;)

Re: How working out loud circles could transform your organization

dankeldsen — Sun, 17 Aug 2014 16:58:35 -0000

I like how you're surrounding the book with Circle Kits and materials to make it all real. Seems to be a slow-growing, and wickedly smart approach.

Re: Technology combines array of monitoring into single information stream

dankeldsen — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 14:06:53 -0000

Health IT is really just the extension (jumping the chasm) of smarter information and data management techniques that came from the more general enterprise and consumer space.

All of the techniques and tools of portals, taxonomies, search solutions, text and data analytics, have been attacking the kinds of problems that are exactly the issue that Tim Bird (quoted in the article) mentions.

More than a decade ago, when I was at Delphi Group, we called this the Single Point of Access, more recently, I've been calling it Distributed Convergence - leveraging all of the point systems and silos into a "single business stream." It's all been possible for nearly 20 years now, the trick is in showing that it can be done within any given industry and organization, and what the benefits are.

Re: Report: Exchanges will breed insurer competition

dankeldsen — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 11:28:51 -0000

Competition in smaller, rural markets, is the real challenge. We shall see - still early days.

Re: What it takes to create exchange competition, lower prices

dankeldsen — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 11:24:26 -0000

The rise of CO-OP plans seems to be the most disruptive (as in disruptive innovation) to existing markets, and the positive side of increased competition to traditional carriers. If nothing else, ACA is highlighting that there is a lot that is just plain broken with the existing healthcare system. Still far from perfect, but shaking up carriers who effectively have a monopolistic hold on their market, is a very good thing for consumers, and ultimately, the kind of "creative destruction" that the carriers should want as well, to keep them on top of their game.

Re: How Are You Being Persuaded?

dankeldsen — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 09:31:44 -0000

@Steve Harnden - I'm seeing the video. And glad I did, as it's a video featuring the one and only Dr. Cialdini's Principles of Influence. Great video - and I use his 6 principles as often as I can. Thanks @jderagon for posting the video, not sure how I missed it.

Re: SharePoint and eDiscovery Challenges

dankeldsen — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 07:14:33 -0000

You are correct, although I'm not following your point. My take on Barry's perspective is that while, at a glance, eDiscovery readiness appears to be very easy, if you're using SharePoint or any other ECM/EIM system, that isn't necessarily the case.

You may not have easy access to metadata that would narrow what you're retrieving, you may have "SharePoint" when in reality you have hundreds or thousands of SharePoint sites, and no simple way to discover/retrieve content across all of them at once.

And as a former sysadmin, I've long been aware that admins, just because they OFTEN hold the keys to the kingdom, ("super admin" rights") and may technically be able to delete content from systems without leaving a trace, that is a MASSIVE business problem, that should be addressed up front through Governance. Only official records keepers (whatever that role may actually be), who's actions are tracked through audit trails, should be able to delete or for that matter, export content for eDiscovery purposes.

If any person or process can subvert that, you're doomed.

But this is all me guessing at what you were trying to point out. Where any of these what you were speaking about?

Re: IAM Talking: Scaling SharePoint Deployments… and Surviving

dankeldsen — Thu, 30 May 2013 06:14:13 -0000

Zeph - very true, what rewards/outcomes are you seeing lately?

Re: IAM Talking: Employee engagement, BIG E vs little e – With Robb Webb, Chief Human Resources Officer for Hyatt Corporation and Dan Keldsen

dankeldsen — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 22:32:17 -0000

Thank you for your comment - absolutely agree. Delayed feedback is a cycle we need to break.

Glad to hear you found the interview useful.

Let's catch up in the New Year, I would like to hear more about the state of the universe at Enkata.

Cheers,
Dan

Re: Analyst SoundOff: What the cloud means for content management

dankeldsen — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 13:57:54 -0000

I'm enjoying the diversity of our points of view on the #cloud and #content. Great to be a part of the discussion.

Re: Two Thumbnails Up: Optimizing Video Play Rates

dankeldsen — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 15:51:12 -0000

Yes, yes, and yes.

Re: Aaron Levie answers the critics

dankeldsen — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:41:35 -0000

It's interesting that given the size and funding of Box at this point, that there isn't more action both on the mobile access side (which I agree, is massive and quite disruptive to traditional ECM practitioners and solutions), AND in providing accessible workflow/process capabilities.

It's not this OR that, new OR old, but hybrids that combine the best of both the new world of non-document centric content, and the old world of forms, templates and hard-edged documents, that companies need, even if they haven't quite wrapped their head around the old or new worlds.

The good news from my perspective, is that for companies that still have not journeyed into ECM of some sort, 20+ years into the market's creation, can now leap frog past a lot of the mistakes that have been made over the years. The challenge is how to make sure they can both take advantage of modern ECM, while still increasing process efficiencies and reducing the risks of unsecured and unmanaged content.

There is still a massive market that hasn't yet been tapped. Whether that's Box's oyster to pluck, or not, remains to be seen.

Re: BoxWorks: Musicians continue to struggle with the Internet

dankeldsen — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:33:41 -0000

The entertainment industry leads in some ways, lags in others. Absolutely agree that traditional music channels hoard data that they aren't necessarily even using, when the hungry (i.e., active and engaged) artist, would (rightly) kill to get insights into their fans.

Incidentally, Jared's struggles, caught between big labels and being independent, is exactly why I've been working as an advisor to youbloom - a global community focused on independent musicians and their fans. There are alternatives to going it alone or swinging for the majors.

See the crowdfunding effort going on now at: http://www.indiegogo.com/we...

Re: 4 Strategies For Winning Over Innovation Naysayers

dankeldsen — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 09:50:43 -0000

Interesting piece, and it's great to see more and more people bringing these conversations to light.

Excuses are excuses - but it doesn't mean you can afford to blow off people's excuses. There are better, smarter and faster ways to engage even the must "stuck" employees in any organization.And in the timing is everything, I wrote a similar article over at InformationWeek, last week:http://www.informationweek.... need far more conversations like these, and empowered people (both self-motivated/empowered and coached) to make a difference.

Re: "3 Ways To Turn Enterprise 2.0 Laggards Into Fans"

dankeldsen — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 23:15:00 -0000

Daanish - hmm, well to clarify my position - my point is that you (we, all of us) need to pre-engage people to find out what they're trying to do, what their current (but changeable) stance is with regards to the work their doing, the tools available to them, etc., and then work to seamlessly connect their dots to the solutions being offered.

Your suggestion of finding teams that are current using tools to make their daily work easier is exactly what I'm talking about in experiment #1... IF you've already deployed the tools.

My suggestion is that before deploying (or buying, for that matter) any tools, that you hunt down those people who are already clearly ready to jump into the fray, and leverage those folks to get early momentum, but do not expect that they represent the motivations, needs, behaviors, etc., that the 2nd and 3rd groups I'd described, will surface for you.

"Compensation" does not have to be monetary, incidentally, and I believe it is far healthier to look at what is being delivered to people that is their own perceived value, rather than the typical scenario, of only looking into what's in it for the company/business.

As Stowe Boyd has put it, if you think of social technologies as "me first" (from the standpoint of the user), that improves the odds of finding a hook (compensation in the form of the person being satisfied, even thrilled with the technology in place, rather than forced on them, or dropped and ignored on them) by factors that really can't be overestimated in effectiveness.

I believe we're saying much the same thing - but perhaps it wasn't as obvious until we've had this chance to discuss.

Yes? No?

Cheers,
Dan

Re: Crowds, Individuals and Conformity

dankeldsen — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:47:50 -0000

Fred - agree - that's why my goal is to "lower the barrier" to [fill in the blank], to be so low that the only danger is tripping over the barrier. ;) #innovation #habits #start #small