Someone I work with sent me this article. I’m not sure what that says about them or what they think of me, but it raises some interesting points, especially in regards to finding that line between keeping your employees from being too unproductive with their use of the internet connection and being so strict that you make them all miserable. It’s a hard line to find sometimes…
Companies Must Deal with ‘Cyber-slacking’
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In preparation for being in DC next week, I’ve been reading some history. Namely, I’ve been reading Mr. Lincoln’s T-Mails: How Abraham Lincoln used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War. I found the premise interesting, in that the telegraph really changed the dynamics between the commander in chief, and his generals. Rather than having…
In connection with the conversation we had yesterday, I sent this article that was linked in today’s Lockergnome to the head of our Communications Department. What do you think, is the upcoming version of Office turning off images and HTML by default combined with the “spam wars” going to kill email as a marketing tool?…
I just now learned this one and laughed at myself for it: When you copy an Excel spreadsheet so that you can keep a copy of it on your PDA, (It’s an employee contact information sheet) make sure that the frozen panes are unfrozen. In this case the name fields were frozen so that you…
So I took a look at Robert Scoble’s entries from last night and he says some interesting things. Of course he sounds exactly like you would expect a guy in NEC Sales to sound, which makes you wonder if he’s being honest or just a corporate shill, I’ve met Robert and I think he’s probably…
I was just over reading Mike Sanders’ blog, and the comments therein when I realized that both of the commenters, when I hovered over their names, instead of being the URL for their site, it was a link to their Blogger profile. Then, when I clicked the “leave a comment” link the page that was…
From Dennis “Think about it with me now: Summer—even with cargo shorts on, you look like a blooming idiot with a Pocket PC, your cell phone, accessories, and a wallet bulging out of various places. In winter, though, that’s not an issue. Everyone gets bulged up with a great lump of fleece and wool (called…