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How Much of a Distraction is Social Media?

In Friday’s post, I admitted the social media can be a waste of time.  I talked about doing some unproductive things online and how, despite that (or even because of that), marketers should be paying a LOT of attention to social media marketing.  But as many of you have commented in the first post, social media is really not a waste o

Microsoft's Creepy Brain Scan Patent App

I think before the robots take over everything and use us for batteries, it will appear that humans have hyper-evolved into mechanically enhanced super-sapiens. But that's really just to build false confidence in us. A recent Microsoft patent application is perhaps the next step toward that digitally created human battery soup dream.

US Spends $130 Million Daily On Spam

If the CEO wants to know how to save some money from being wasted each day, tell her the best people she can pressure aren't the employees, but the company's federal Congressmen. Forget about gathering all the staff in one room and telling them how they are money-sucking time wasters. The problem may not be their fault. Spam could be to blame.

Using Content to Drive Productivity and Make Sales

Most organizations do not properly understand or manage content. They fail to realize that quality content is now key to productivity, cost effectiveness, sales, and customer satisfaction.

Intranets Not Realizing Productivity Gains

The intranet is still in its infancy. It has not yet exploited its potential for creating value for the organization, according to the 2006 Global Intranet Strategies Survey.

SCM Savings: People, Process, and Productivity

Okay, yes, I know...this is going to sound like a broken record...

Nielsen Calls Shenanigans On Apple Study

Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen held his tongue when an Apple-sponsored study correlating high productivity with larger computer screens was released. But when Computer World published an article about it (seven months after we did), Nielsen felt he needed to put a stop to it.

Automated Scripts to Improve Site Productivity

There are two types of web sites on the Internet. The die hard SEO managers still favor static pages, because they are easier to crawl and more visible to search engines, and it is fairly easy to add a few hundred pages to a website by copying and pasting or creating a template.

ApplTop 11i Productivity and Compliance Solutions

In a recent announcement, productivity and compliance software developer ApplTop Solutions Limited stated they are making their entire product suite, as well as a majority of the source code, available under their new ApplTop Free & Open Software License:

Another Test of 'is Microsoft listening?'

Rod Boothby, a manager with Ernst & Young, has an awesome post about what he wants from a Web Office, among other things.