As I mentioned in an earlier post, 2011 saw the sales of smartphones cross that of PC’s. In the US, smartphone ownership now exceeds that of feature-phones, less affectionately called dumb-phones. But world-wide, the conversion is in its early stage, with 835-million smartphones vs. 5.6-billion dumb-phones, but growth is exploding. It took AOL 9-years to […]
Every time I encounter an article like this one, I wind up checking my own behavior when it comes to the way I deal with email. And I learn that it has changed, in many ways reflecting the changes taking place in the world outside. From being a committed Blackberry user of many years standing, I […]
Breton’s call to kill email has found resonance with some India Inc CEOs. “I’ve contemplated shutting down email for 3-4 hours everyday in office so employees can get work done,” says Pramod Bhasin, vice-chairman, Genpact, India’s largest BPO outfit. “There is no question there are a lot of useless emails and loss of productivity. When there’s […]
You’ve got mail–not. Employees of tech company Atos will be banned from sending emails under the company’s new “zero email” policy. CEO Thierry Breton of the French information technology company said only 10 percent of the 200 messages employees receive per day are useful and 18 percent is spam. That’s why he hopes the company […]
“Throughout my life, I have gained more from my critic friends than from my admirers – M.K. Gandhi”. While many have said a lot of good things about Gosocio, what I would like to broadcast is criticism. I had once asked my colleague in QLC, “If Gosocio was in your dictionary, what would it mean?” […]
Padma Swaminathan, Yahoo! India Finance, On Tuesday 12 July 2011, 3:34 PM Mysore: Infosys Limited may not be your friendliest neighbour or the most employee-friendly IT company around. But they sure are making amends. ‘Infy Bubble’, their recently launched internal social networking site is supposedly a platform for disgruntled Infoscions to vent on. The site […]
The inkling of a great idea can come from one mind, but it often takes a team to flush it out. And improve it! And work on it! And put it into practice! And improve it again! Great ideas are usually a result of ideas from many people with different ways of looking at the […]
Corporates opt for in-house social networks What would Facebook look like without photos of drunken nights out and tales of misbehaving cats? It might look a lot like the internal social network at the offices of Nikon Instruments. The tone is decidedly businesslike, as employees exchange messages about customer orders, new products and closing deals. […]
Email is out, cos use social net to communicate Javed Anwer TNN New Delhi:“Email is passé. Tagging is in.” This is how Gautam Ghosh, a social media evangelist, describes the way communication is changing at workplace. For a generation of workforce brought up on the likes of Facebook and Twitter, the old collaborative tools, presentations […]