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One of the things I have come to understand in my work in social network analysis is that being able to make sense of the connections -- the lines among us -- gives us access to questions and insights we might not otherwise have.
One of the items Byron shared was a list of ten items shared between gamers and the workplace. These items are critical to success in a game but equally so for success in the workplace. The virtual world and game ingredients applicable to work include:
- Self representation – virtual teams are fundamental to business and enabling virtual team members to reflect their own brand is critical to empowering and motivating employees
- Compelling narrative – great stories equal great program/project plans
- Real time feedback – important to get feedback immediately in order to course correct to achieve the end goal
- Ranks and levels – understanding the chain of command and how one can climb the ladder can be very motivating and drive innovation via competition
- Transparency – this is critical as a transparent environment enables a higher sense of ‘buy in’ from those engaged
- Economics (aka budgeting) – no game or business plan is able to be successfully navigated without having a clear understanding of the economics related
- Teams – no one can be successful individually in a game or in a business program, it takes a village to really meet success criteria’s
- Communication – open communication via real time feedback and transparency using tools that nimbly enable the participants to engage is critical to success
- Rules – knowing the rules and how they create the structure for achieving the goal/s is fundamental for any gaming or business teams
- Time pressure – both games and business programs have time pressures which drive competition, motivate the team, and provide structure/rules for meeting the goals
Salesforce Chatter will be included for free in all paid editions of Salesforce CRM and the Force.com platform. If businesses don’t use either of these products, they can pay $50 per user per month which will include Salesforce Chatter, Salesforce Content and Force.com. Salesforce will also be rolling out a lightweight free version of Chatter. At the moment, Salesforce is being cagey about when Salesforce will be available to the general public, but we expect that it should be rolled out at some point this year.
Get a Permalink to Specific Buzz
Every Buzz post and its ensuing comment thread is a web page in and of itself. To get a link to that page to IM, email, or link from another web page, click on the down-arrow to the right of a Buzz post and select "Link to this buzz." Here's a Buzz post I published this morning.
Send Buzz via @ Replies
If email is just too old-fashioned for you, send someone a Buzz update by using Twitter-style @ replies. Start a new Buzz post with the @ sign, and an auto-complete drop-down of your Contacts will appear. Choose the recipient, and that Buzz update will appear in your contact's inbox (assuming he or she has Buzz enabled).
From a platform perspective, there's some place in the SMB market to compete against hosted SharePoint, bit as you move up the food chain, odds are stacked high against Box -- too much entrenchment.
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"Box.net 2.0 adds in file preview (similar to the enhancements rolled out last month for the full site), the ability to comment and view comments on files or folders, the ability to share files or folders straight from the app, and the ability to view updates to an account or project." [Christina Warren]
Founder of the Dearing Group LLC., a consultancy focused on communications and sustainability.
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