Monthly Archives: June 2012

If you find a good blog…share it!

Do your friends and colleagues a favor and share your favorite blogs.  It’s amazing what’s out there that can educate, entertain or inspire.  Three that I’ve especially enjoyed recently are:

1.  http://www.convinceandconvert.com/ – Jay Baer, a former colleague and virtual friend, is one of the foremost experts on Social Media.  His blog offers a depth of Social Media understanding and tips.  Sign up for the daily emails, “Get 1 Social Thing.”  You’ll have a better understanding of the Social Media world and what it can do for you and your business.

2.  http://www.besointeriorstyle.blogspot.com/ – Patti Borrelli, another former colleague and friend, is a stylist who seems bottomless when it comes to ideas.  Look to her for your home design inspiration.

3.  http://www.chicagonow.com/successful-in-chicago/2012/06/bloggers-madison-managedip-oh-my/ – I cannot lie.  Catherine Morgan, a blogger I just met a couple weeks ago, is a favorite, simply because  of her coverage of a recent blogger event I worked on for TDS.  We couldn’t have asked her to write such a great summary of the event and its intentions.  Thank you, Catherine!  This is a great example of the power of an endorsement by a blogger!

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What’s The Future of the Digital Workplace?

Yesterday I had the pleasure of being a part of the first blogger event of TDS, one of my clients.  TDS crew — including CEO Dave Wittwer — and six bloggers discussed the question:  What’s the Future of the Digital Workplace?

ImageBloggers Thomas Clifford, Tommytrc.com; Don Stanley, 3rhinomedia.com; Catherine Morgan, A to B Transitions; Paul Gibler, ibmadison.com; Tom Snyder, Triveraguy.com; and Kris Cain, Little Tech Girl offered ideas, commentary and plenty of tweets about the topics.

Prompted by the new book, The Digital Workplace, How Technology is Liberating Work by Paul Miller, the group heard presentations and had discussions about:

  • How you stay and feel connected in the digital workplace
  • TDS’ managedIP demo as an example of how your workplace tools can help employees manage and keep customers happy
  • What will be the most productive way to work in the future
  • And how to get your corporate culture to shift to accept digital workplace changes

Wittwer, John Roach, CEO of Roach Video Productions and Gary Testa, VP Global Service of Polycom, shared viewpoints and factoids with the bloggers.  Five morsels that were tweet-worthy:

  1. By 2016, it’s estimated that 63 million people will work from home — or 43% of the workforce
  2. The belief that CEO’s are scared of the unknown (i.e., digital workplace, social media) and they are losing out on brand advocates
  3. Mobile device proliferation will increase from 64 million to 320 million by 2015
  4. Only 6% of the 3 billion emails daily are “real” v. spam

The key to it all?  An attitude of embracing the possibilities of a digital workplace will get beyond issues of trust, security and more.

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