I’ve just finished day 3 of my Google Experiment and I’m really getting the hang of this. I realize this is not good news for the One Today fund, but today was another ‘Cloud only’ day even though I did not have a lot of meetings. I’m still struggling with the amount of MS Office…
Today I realized that this cliche is very true: “old habits die hard” and that getting used to a new system also means letting go of a lot of automatic actions, that I repeat so frequently on a daily base that I don’t even think about it anymore. So yes, today the Google One Fund…
So today was the first day of my Google Experiment where I live completely in the cloud and not use any local applications. And so far so good – which I did not expect this morning. I returned from my annual leave, so I spent most of my day in meetings and catching up on…
Every time I’m away from the office for a longer period, I’m amazed at how much I can achieve using only my iPhone and iPad. I spent two weeks in Portugal this June, and while I was there my web site went down. I do use the WordPress App on my iPad to post while…
The first post in this summer series on the state of HR Cloud and HR ERP looks at the basics. When I talk to clients about choosing between Cloud and ERP for HR, there are many questions that need to be answered, but the fundamental choice follows from the answers to these three questions: 1….
I need a new laptop and I had my mind fully set on an ultrabook with Windows 8. I’ve always had a Windows laptop – after all, I used to be an MSCE. But I’ve changed my mind: I’m going to buy a MacBook Air instead. Why? Because I travel more and I want the…
We are extremely bad at predicting the future. We try and we fail. We observe trends, try again and fail again. The future just never quite turns out the way we expect it to. Why are we so bad at predicting what the future holds? Because we look at it from our current perspective and…
Today I received an email from my newspaper, inviting me to start using their iPad edition for my daily dose of news. It’s the last in a long list of invitations to switch to a digital subscription. And I suddenly realized that it’s the end of an era, as this news paper was the last…
I was one of the (10 million) lucky people who got an early invite to experiment with Google+. Now that I have been using it for a couple of weeks, it’s time to make up the balance. First let me say that even though I have a Facebook account I have never gotten into the…
Those who read my blog know that I have been writing about Klout a few times before (Do you have Klout? & Klout revisited) to understand how online influence can be determined. This week I am adding to that because I went away for a few days and was unable to tweet. Look at what happened to…
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post on Klout. In the meantime, Klout updated to Beta-Klout – yes, that’s right, they are back in Beta. I thought that deserved an update. First the good news: since my previous post, my Klout score has risen to 48. I’m not quite sure how, as I did…
It’s not often I disagree with Laurie, also known as the Cynical Girl, but yesterday was one of those days when I read Social Media Saturday. My apologies Laurie, but your post was just, well, way too cynical and left me feeling compelled to write a rebuttal. First off, I am not an Apple geek. iPhone3 was…
