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Multiply the spread of your ideas with free syndication tools
Started by Daniel J. Pritchett · 7 months ago
Your organization generates a ton of ideas every day. Many of them disappear into a void, never to be heard from again. It doesn’t have to be this way! With the right planning and judicious use of free web-based content syndication tools you can give every idea t
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7 months ago
7 months ago
I can and should be getting that RSS item streamed to me so that I can see your work as it happens rather than when (if) you remember to show it to me.
As for the culture change required to make this stuff happen, I don't mean to discount that at all. I know we aren't going to dump our Lotus Notes mailboxes and wake up in the clouds tomorrow. I'm still doing my best to find the best way forward. By writing all of this out I'm distilling my ideas into a form that will serve me (us) well the next time this comes up in conversation with my supervisor... or yours... or a company vice president.
EDIT: A book I enjoyed very much insists that the only real way to drive this kind of culture change is with the full support and energy of the CEO.
7 months ago
1) What do RSS feeds give you that mailing groups do not?
2) Why do I have to collaborate on the web and then put it all in Powerpoint? Why can't I just use what I've been using?
3) I don't want anybody changing anything I'm working on.
Reason 3 is probably the most frustrating of them all. People need to get over the idea that "I'm" working on something and shift gears and understand that "we" are working on something.
7 months ago
2) You are free to continue doing what you have been doing, but the continued drumbeat of economic downturn and globalization means that each month you continue operate under an obsolete workflow is a month where your organization draws closer to bankruptcy.
3) The only systems that don't change are dead systems. No one is employed to maintain those. If you want to participate in a living business, you must accept the fact that you have to run at a certain pace just to *maintain* your current position. Any hope of advancement will require even more hard work and optimization.
7 months ago
2) I fail to see the correlation of economics and workplace collaboration, apart from a potential gain in efficiency.
3) The AS400 gurus want to have a word with you. :)
7 months ago
2) I'm obviously not an economist nor a CEO, but I was trying to suggest that yearly gains in efficiency will be necessary to stay competitive in business. RSS feeds aren't the silver bullet to solve all workplace woes, but they'll definitely streamline operations and open up new horizons when it comes to knowledge work.
3) Got me there! I imagine that an AS400 doesn't need a huge staff to keep it running. I'm more thinking about the headcount required to build and extend new projects. I like to think that a good IT person/department automates things so well that they are no longer needed full time and can move on to someone who needs them more. I doubt many people are comfortable with that perspective though - it's hard to contemplate the end of a job.
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