Monthly Archives: October 2007

A World of Information Possibility: There’s No Right Way Through It

October 15, 2007 – 9:06 am

Received wisdom online says: it’s so obvious that we’re overwhelmed by information. There’s just too much of it and most of it is garbage, especially now that anyone can post her thoughts on the Internet. Fortunately, we have ways of telling what’s important and who’s an authority… like by looking at who has the […]

By Anne Z | Posted in Connect, Innovation | Comments (8)

Mold the Virtual Space Not the Office Space

October 11, 2007 – 7:50 am

I was fascinated to read on the Oracle AppsLab blog that they’re experimenting with a bullpen-style layout in Building 300, where I used to work. My greatest day at Oracle was when I achieved my own office. Cubicles were bad enough, but bullpens? Personally, I want more separation and privacy than that.
I wrote it up […]

By Anne Z | Posted in Career, Connect | Comments (4)

Connecting the Left Brain and the Right Brain

October 7, 2007 – 11:51 am

A piece I wrote for GigaOM a while ago on the Connected Age was published this weekend, with a table taken straight out of my book manuscript for Connect!: Web Worker Daily’s Guide to a New Way of Working. I do mean straight out — as Judi pointed out to me, there’s even a red […]

By Anne Z | Posted in Books, Connect | Comments (8)

Beware the Halo Effect: On Missions and Mountains

October 3, 2007 – 7:04 am

Phil Rosenzweig’s The Halo Effect suggests that much reporting and analysis and expounding on what businesses are doing right or wrong is subject to the halo effect: when a company’s doing well, everything they do looks smart and visionary. When they’re not doing well, they look awkward, uncertain, and fumbling.
You might say, “that’s because good […]

By Anne Z | Posted in Books, Psychology, Social Science | Comments (4)

Weak Ties for Social Problem Solving in Enterprise 2.0

October 2, 2007 – 7:52 am

Andrew McAfee suggests that Facebook and similar social tools bring value to business by allowing employees to create and maintain more weak ties with people. Weak ties often bridge across groups and thus offer access to information and other resources that might not otherwise be available. Andrew likens these to options (e.g., financial ones that […]

By Anne Z | Posted in Enterprise Software, Social Science, Web 2.0 | Comments (5)