Notable + Quotable: Elevator Pitches, Multitasking, and Cyberharassment
by Celine Roque
Don’t Treat Web 2.0 Like Web 1.0
This Mashable article discusses how most Web 2.0 enthusiasts haven’t fully understood or evaluated how to make Web 2.0 actually work for their business. “Too often we’re focused on the fun, new, and shiny in our various web apps, and it’s important to occasionally pause and evaluate the business and utility of all this time-sink we’ve accrued in social media to determine if it is in fact worth it.”
Elevator Pitches, Now Ready for Your Uploads
Techcrunch adds an easier upload feature to Elevator Pitches, the startup they launched recently. Erick Schonfeld writes “But we soon realized that we had launched too early because the process for getting new videos on the site was just too cumbersome. It was all e-mail cut-and-paste, essentially, and we were overwhelmed. New videos didn’t immediately go up, and traffic trickled down.” Perhaps this new feature will encourage more CEOs and businesses to upload their pitches.
The Boss Made Me Do It: Multitasking Still Inefficient
From Ars Technica comes this article discussing how multitasking leads to inefficiency. “The complaints against multitasking are the usual; you’re not as focused as you could be if you were just doing one thing at once, switching focus repeatedly actually makes you less productive as each time your brain takes a few moments to reprioritize tasks.”
Stop Banning Facebook at Work: Multitasking is Here to Stay
A response by YWorking. com to the previous article. Matt Ellion brings up an interesting point: “The real issue I have with this is one of trust. By constantly monitoring your employees’ screens, by installing filters and blocks, by blanket policies forbidding access at work, you’re essentially saying to your employees that you can’t trust them.”
NewlyCorporate gives an introduction to cyberharassment and cyberstalking, sharing information that the modern employee should be aware of. “Cyberstalkers use the internet or electronic methods to intimidate or harass. Not every conflict on the internet is cyberstalking. An offensive email, blog, chat, or argument is not necessarily harassment.”
Mike Gunderloy from WebWorkerDaily reviews the second version of Slife, a time-tracker made for OS X. His review states that there’s much improvement, “It fixes the problems I saw last time, adds some new functionality, and drops the price - to “free.”
How do you measure workplace happiness?
Steve Roesler talks about happiness and fulfillment in the workplace, as well as its importance: “There’s a relationship between how much you love your job and how well you perform. That’s not a mystery. But there is a dynamic you need to know about in order to manage yourself and others…”
In the same vein, GreatWorkplace posted “Creating a Work/Life Balance“, which includes measures that some employers have taken to improve work/life balance for their employees. One of these measures - flexibility: “More and more employers are offering employees a flexible work week in terms of hours and days…”
With Fuel Prices Rising, U.S. Companies Work Quickly to Reduce Employee Travel
Rising fuel costs could well prove to be one of the primary reasons why teleworking will become more commonplace: “66% of organizations reported that soaring fuel costs are having a moderate to very high negative effect on their business operations. And they don’t see an end in sight.”
