Join Me at a Free Webinar on Keeping a Team Connected in a Distributed Workplace

June 16, 2009 at 10:45 am · Filed under Communities, Culture, Distributed Work, Management, Tips for Tough Times, Webinar, Work Design, social networks

Please join me and my partner in crime Charlie Grantham, along with Eric Bensley of Citrix Online, and James Hilliard of BNet next Wednesday, June 24, for a free one-hour webinar called “Keeping Your Team Connected in a Distributed Workplace.”

The webinar is sponsored by  Citrix Online We’re very grateful for their continuing support of our research and ideas.

Again, the webinar will be on June 24, at 11 AM Pacific/2 PM Eastern. Register here.

We hope you’ll join us. We’re going to be talking mostly about the leadership and interpersonal principles for keeping members of a distributed team connected with each other, their tasks, and the company.

“5 Big Ideas for Getting All That Work Done” - recording of The AppGap webinar now available

March 19, 2009 at 10:44 am · Filed under AppGap Tips, Product Management, Talent Management, Technology Management, Webinar

As you know if you’re a regular reader of this blog, The AppGap last week hosted a discussion called “5 Big Ideas for Getting All That Work Done.” Moderated by AppGap contributor Anita Campbell, who was joined by leading commentators Jonathan Fields and John Jantsch, the webinar explored and shared insights on handling workloads that, in many cases, have only increased and gotten more stressful in these challenging economic times.

The major takeaways the discussion sought to explore:

• How to automate what you hate
• How going virtual can help
• How being “social” at work is good for business
• How to reframe what you do
• And how to get your head in the cloud, i.e., move more work to the web

See the end of this post to access the recording of the great conversation - hit play to hear it in place or download it as a podcast for later listening.

We hope you find it of interest and want to take the opportunity to point you to several other webinars The AppGap has hosted: Should your Business be friends with Facebook? from last June and a broad discussion on The Future of Work from early last year.

 

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Two Webinars for the Coghead Community

March 2, 2009 at 1:57 pm · Filed under QuickBase, Sponsored Post, Web Apps, Webinar

As Bill Ives mentioned in his previous post, the QuickBase team has put together a special offer for Coghead ‘refugees’ left in the lurch after Coghead and SAP decided to shut the existing service down. We think, of course, that QuickBase is the best online database out there, and can solve the needs of both Coghead customers and Coghead partners.

I know moving to a new solution is a tough process. To help with the transition, we are going to host two webinars focused on giving partners and customers the information they need to make the best decision for their business.

For Partners - we are doing a webinar on Tuesday March 3d, 2009 at 10am (PST)

For Customers - we are doing a webinar on Thursday March 5th, 2009 at 10am (PST)

For more information, and to sign up for the webinars, please check out our blog post  - http://quickbase.intuit.com/blog/2009/02/26/quickbase-to-present-to-coghead-community/

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5 Big Ideas for Getting All That Work Done

February 28, 2009 at 12:20 am · Filed under Webinar

No time, no budget, fewer people?  We’ve got 5 big ideas for how to get all the work done.

Join us for a free webinar on March 11, 2009, from 2:00 to 3:00 pm Eastern time.  I will be moderating the discussion and will be joined by John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing, and Jonathan Fields, author of Career Renegade. (In case you didn’t guess, that’s me in the middle of those two fine gentlemen.)

In this webinar we will cover:

1. How to automate what you hate — tasks and processes that are time sucks you never noticed or didn’t know you could offload to new tools 

2. How going virtual can help – prudent outsourcing can make more sense than ever
  
3. Why getting “social” at work is good for business – seek technology applications with social media features and that connect you with communities that can provide speedy answers, serve as “free” extensions of your team, connect you to customers faster

4. Why and how to reframe how you think about your job – advice for doing more of what matters and less of what doesn’t

5. How to get your head in the cloud – move more work to the web and save more time and money

We be giving away some copies of our books. Please join us — and be sure to bring your questions too.

The webinar is free, but you do have to reserve a spot — space is limited.

Find out more and register now.

A Webinar on IT’s Role in Supporting Mobile Work

November 11, 2008 at 6:39 pm · Filed under Collaboration, Distributed Work, Reviews, Technology Management, Web Commuting, Webinar

Charlie Grantham and I completed presenting a webinar on “The Future of Work:  IT’s Role in Enabling Mobile Work” just a few hours ago.
The webinar was sponsored by Citrix Online, and included our reporting out the results of an extensive survey we recently completed of IT professionals and their views about the challenges and opportunities surrounding mobile work. The survey was also sponsored by Citrix.

Among the topics we covered:

• Why mobile work is real – and here to stay

• What challenges the mobile workforce creates for IT

• Why remote access is just as important as having a laptop and a cell phone

The session is now available for viewing online whenever you wish. Just click here and you should have your Windows Media Player or other media player open right up and start playing.

The whole session takes about 50 minutes; we’re on for about 30 minutes, followed by an online demo of Citrix Online’s GotoMyPC software that does just that - it lets you access a remote PC from anywhere and work on it just as if you were sitting in front of it.

Hope you’ll find some time to listen to the webinar - it’s mostly about the issues and challenges facing IT organizations as they gear up to support mobile workers, but we also spent the first ten minutes or so talking about why mobile work is growing so rapidly (hint, it’s not just because technology makes it relatively easy - there’s much more to it than that).

We think you’ll find the session interesting and informative.

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Facebook webinar slide deck and questions (and hopefully answers)

June 26, 2008 at 1:03 pm · Filed under Communities, Webinar

Below you’ll find the slide deck that accompanied yesterday’s webinar. In addition, you’ll find the great questions and comments that were flowing in over the course of the discussion, only some of which were we able to address. We’ll be pointing the panelists back to your questions and hope they’ll be able to respond in the comments. Feel free, of course, to pose new questions as well.

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Questions and Comments

• A few of the speakers today have mentioned that some companies take a dim view of Facebook because they see it as a “kid’s thing.” Are there strategies you can recommend to turn that fun/social element of Facebook into a virtue for building engagement?
• How can Facebook group coordinators build deep social capital to drive engagement?
• Which of the engagement issues discussed in these cases are present in any electronically-mediated social network and which are specific to Facebook given its affordances and limitations?
• How would you characterize the level and quality of engagement in Facebook groups with a substantive purpose vs. a marketing purpose?
• Kimberly touched on how social network behaviors seem different from professional behaviors; can we say more about this?
• Can you please briefly explain to me what the “Influentials Theory” is?
• Are the loosely associated groups of individuals in Facebook actually communities? Do they behave as communities?
• Has anyone done a functional comparison among Facebook, LinkedIn, and SharePoint, etc? That is, these hosted Web 2.0 apps and enterprise tools?
• I think this work is very interesting, and can’t help but wondering “What’s Next?” From a research (study) perspective, some things were uncovered and learned in this experience. What will we do with these and where do we go from here?
• Would most of you agree from this experience that it takes a calculated combination of virtual and on-the ground connection to build these kinds of communities?
• Kimberly: how did you work with the 5 people who were “recruiters” of the 1300 or did this just evolve?
• I think the Alexa graph shown [in the slide deck] narrows the field of relevant data. If you zoom out from Alexa’s results to encompass all of the last year, you see a similar shallow dip in June-July of last year (likely due to summer vacation for college students). As the ‘Facebook Generation’ grows up, we may see that cycle fade out. But it does show that the Facebook crowd may still be relatively young. Does that significantly limit the ability of brands or companies to cultivate a relevant audience?
• Is it viable to use Facebook groups as a stepping stone to a full blown ‘for fee’ membership site?
• Was there any data gained from the study that provided a link between the group and improvement in sales? Any evidence that community members went the next step and actually clicked a link to initiate on-line commerce?
• Great research - very interesting - thank you very much. But is it is still a pity that the event platform is not more open and social itself - allowing people to see who is here and what questions people asked. Wondering why that is so?

Recording of “Facebook for Business” Webinar now available

June 26, 2008 at 8:13 am · Filed under Communities, Webinar

The recording of yesterday’s great conversation about how companies are using Facebook for business can now be heard here (see end of the post) or downloaded to be listened to at your convenience.

We again wanted to thank the panelists, our sponsor QuickBase, and all those who listened in for the wide-ranging discussion about what several Facebook group owners have learned from their experiences trying to leverage the site to market themselves and more. More about the webinar’s focus and participants can be found here.

In a subsequent post we’ll be posting the many good questions that came in during the call and asking the panelists to follow up in the comments. Feel free, whether you attended yesterday or not, to post additional questions to that post.

 

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