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A long time fan of the blog, the drawerist, reacted strongly to the name change of my daily summary where I ‘connect the dots’ for you, so I have re-changed the name of the feature back to ‘While you were sleeping’. She is, after all, the one that makes e1evation.com so good looking so I have to consider her opinion once in awhile. Moving on…
“As the social enterprise builds momentum, the big question is: How will companies effectively tap the employee crowd to become more productive?Enterprise social networks arm companies with social media functionality, allowing them to collaborate with their employees around up-to-the-minute information. Late last year, Salesforce stirred up some buzz around enterprise social networking with the announcement of its Chatter Collaboration Platform. Currently in beta, Chatter aims to bring together elements of Facebook, Twitter and other real-time services. By integrating profiles, feeds and groups across its platform, Salesforce offers its end users the same functionality they already use to share ideas and information on public social networks.
While social networking functionality excels at connecting teams around projects, information, and qualitative data, it falls short in its ability to drive quantitative, actionable insights — the holy grail for project managers and enterprise forecasting groups.” Source: How Companies are Using Social Media to Make Better Decisions
Did you know you could get an award for effective tweeting?
“The second annual Shorty Awards ceremony went down this week in New York City, honoring the community-nominated and voted on best of the best from Twitter.Awards were given in 26 official categories as well as a huge selection of crowdsourced community categories. The Twitter community was invited to contribute nominations beginning this January, with the intent of recognizing a user’s overall Twitter stream as opposed to particular tweets. Popularity determined a set of finalists in each category, which were then also reviewed by a panel of judges from the Real-Time Academy of Short Form Arts & Sciences.” Source: Shorty Awards Honor Twitter’s Finest Micro-Bloggers
Finally? Something to bake your noodle…
“What do you learn just in case you’ll need it in the future, and what do you learn just in time when you do need it?In general, you learn things in school just in case you’ll need them later. Then once you get a job, you learn more things just in time when you need them.
When you learn just in time, you’re highly motivated. There’s no need to imagine whether you might apply what you’re learning since the application came first. But you can’t learn everything just in time. You have to learn some things before you can imagine using them. You need to have certain patterns in your head before you can recognize them in the wild.” Source: Learning “Just in Case” versus “Just in Time” – Preparation – Lifehacker
Have a great weekend! I’m off to Atlanta next week and I’m bringing in some guest posters to spice things up a little…
