When I read the post What if the Apple Store billed by the hour, I thought to myself, not only is this a good example of the problem with billable hour requirements, but to a lesser extent it’s also a good example of how tracking employees every second and using that to measure productivity can…
Gabe Acevedo pointed me to a brand new blog on Twitter earlier today, e-Discovery 101, and even though there’s only one post up, it really hit home with me. Their 5 easy steps to becoming an in-house electronic discovery guru matches up pretty well with some of what I’ve been thinking as I transition in…
Now that Friendfeed has decided to report the number of people who follow you on their service as “subscribers” when it polls an RSS feed, how over-inflated are your subscriber numbers? A couple of folks in the comments there have already pointed out the obvious, being subscribed to someone on Friendfeed, and maybe seeing just…
Tweetdeck pushed out an update today, in concert with the release of Tweetdeck for the iPhone. The reason for the desktop update is to add the sync feature that the iPhone version offered. So, now that Tweetdeck is offering cloud based sync, that post about moving Tweetdeck settings is about pointless. They solved that problem!…
There are some good recommendations in this article about privacy settings you can use to keep your less than professional friends from messing up your more professional appearance in this article. For myself, a few of them go a little too far, and might raise the suspicion that you have something to hide to those…
In the first post in this series, we talked about how the line between our professional lives, and our personal lives, have really been forever blurred. Today, I want to expound on that to talk to employers about why it might be less efficient to hold employees to the 40 hour demand. Now, when I…