Dave Coplin, Microsoft’s Director of Search in the UK, offers insights into the behaviour of bees, implications for effective social media strategy and the oblique workings of his mind. Technorati Tags: Dave Coplin,The Envisioners,Microsoft,Social Media,Honey Bees,Winnie the Pooh

Nick Carr posts a warning – extracted from the paperback release of The Shallows – on drawing overly simplistic lines between the generation of Digital Natives and older “Internet Immigrants” (I haven’t come across the latter term before.  I’m neither sure that I like it nor that it accurately describes the issue.  The things we […]

Nick Carr posts a warning – extracted from the paperback release of The Shallows – on drawing overly simplistic lines between the generation of Digital Natives and older “Internet Immigrants” (I haven’t come across the latter term before.  I’m neither sure that I like it nor that it accurately describes the issue.  The things we […]

As discussed before, when moving towards any sort of flexible working / virtual / Unfettered or Hybrid organisational model, the challenges which need addressing centre on Premises (both work and home) and People. As regards People, the issues are, unsurprisingly, all about different aspects of connection: how to ensure continuing communication (both formal and informal) […]

As discussed before, when moving towards any sort of flexible working / virtual / Unfettered or Hybrid organisational model, the challenges which need addressing centre on Premises (both work and home) and People. As regards People, the issues are, unsurprisingly, all about different aspects of connection: how to ensure continuing communication (both formal and informal) […]

Enabling collaboration, especially the serendipitous, ad hoc collaborations of the coffee-break, is one of the great benefits of the Hybrid Organisation concept. On the HBR blog today, Robert J Thomas posts the Three Essential Ingredients of Great Collaborations.  As Thomas observes, effective collaboration takes time and not all collaboration leads to positive outcomes.  It works […]

Yesterday’s reports about the pronouncement by the WHO (that’s the World Health Organisation and not the “Hope I die before I get old” version) on possible links between mobile phone use and cancer were less than helpful. The WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has concluded that mobile phones should be categorised as […]

Yesterday’s reports about the pronouncement by the WHO (that’s the World Health Organisation and not the “Hope I die before I get old” version) on possible links between mobile phone use and cancer were less than helpful. The WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has concluded that mobile phones should be categorised as […]

“both effort and hard work offer the most promising route to happiness”  Sheldon and Lyubomirsky (2006) The Psychology at Work blog over on Management Today has an interesting piece from Stuart Duff (Head of Development at Pearn Kandola Business Psychologists).  Referring back to 2006 research, Duff observes that being happy actually requires hard work. Turning […]

“both effort and hard work offer the most promising route to happiness”  Sheldon and Lyubomirsky (2006) The Psychology at Work blog over on Management Today has an interesting piece from Stuart Duff (Head of Development at Pearn Kandola Business Psychologists).  Referring back to 2006 research, Duff observes that being happy actually requires hard work. Turning […]