We're always on the lookout for talented contributors, new partnerships, fresh ideas, creative collaborations and innovative sponsorship programs. Contact us at hylton-at-corante-dot-com to discuss.
Today we launch a new blog - Future Tense - that will examine and explore how the modern work “place” is evolving and adapting to new trends, technologies, and economic factors.
Future Tense, authored by a handful of closely read thinkers and practitioners in the broad, industry-spanning “space,” will discuss the trends and pressures that are forcing employers to rejigger the way they think about the workplace, manage projects and staffs, encourage collaboration and innovation, support a decentralized workforce, motivate and reward employees, build morale and foster teamwork, design physical spaces to accommodate a mobile and transient workforce, etc.
Future Tense's co-authors: Elizabeth Albrycht, a 15-year veteran of high technology public relations practice and a co-founder and co-producer of the New Communications Forum; Jim Ware, cofounder of the Work Design Collaborative and the Future of Work program; Regina Miller, formerly of Vodafone and founder of the consultancy The Seventh Suite; Jim McGee, a director at Huron Consulting Group, founding partner of DiamondCluster International, and co-author of Managing Information Strategically; and Dave Desforges of Sun Microsystems' "Work From Home" initiative.
It's a critical topic to be exploring and we're thrilled to welcome aboard some of those best qualified to tell and track the evolving story. Among the themes they'll be touching on: gradual retirement, the rise of the free agent, ad hoc team formation, the decline of hierarchical management structure, geographic distribution, the need for a flexible workforce, the need for long term “employability”, the creative class, urban trends, collaboration technology, project processes, physical design, contract work trends, management challenges, outsourcing, and much more.
Arieanna Foley provides a rundown of her favorite moments from this year's just-wrapped Gnomedex while Matt May runs a 15-minute interview with organizer Chris Pirillo.
Tune in to Strange Attractor for Suw Charman's coverage of various talks and panel discussions taking place at Kevin Werbach's annual Supernova conference, currently underway.
Among those whose remarks she's passing along: Kevin Marks of Technorati, Greg Lloyd of Traction Software, Janice Fraser of Adaptive Path, Jonathan Schwartz of Sun Microsystems, Caterina Fake of Flickr, Mena Trott of Six Apart, Evan Williams of Odeo, and Chris Anderson of Wired. More here...
Ernest Miller points to numerous commentaries of the LA Times' wikitorial experiment, now shuttered, and says: "Reporting that the wiki has been shut down is the easy part. Letting people know whether the experiment was otherwise successful is the hard part, and no one in the traditional press seems eager to confront it..."
Suw Charman's made available the PDF of the first of her case studies from her Dark Blogs project. As Suw explains, the case study examines the implementation of an enterprise weblog software solution for a large European pharmaceutical group and discusses the reasons why blogs were chosen, their integration with other business systems, and the editorial process, launch and promotion, and training and adoption of the tool for a competitive intelligence project.
Clay Shirky concedes he got it wrong the other day in his posting "Wikipedia, Authority, and Astroturf", revisits some of the issues first floated in the original post, and notes follow-up reactions and commentary.
Says JD, in introducing the book in his first post: "[It was] obvious to me that we needed to bring this discussion out of its current orbit -- among IP experts, academia, Capitol Hill, geeks and tech conference attendees -- and try to connect with the wider public... And so I set about not to argue a new intellectual thesis, but to tell stories -- accessible, meaningful narrative accounts of the people affected by the battle over digital rights."
Hylton Jolliffe
Francois Gossieaux
