I recently learned about Amplement, an intriguing tool for professionals to communicate and interact, with a clean and minimal design with features drawn from work chat, video chat, and professional networks. I had a chance to ask some questions of the founder, and I’m even more intrigued afterward. About Adrien Sommier Adrien Sommer Adrien founded […]

I’m announcing a few upcoming report projects from Gigaom in the next few days. One is the long-awaited 2016 Workforce Communications Narrative: Workforce communications is a class of message-centric work technology that is principally geared toward the modern mobile workforce, especially geared toward enabling communications between workers in retail, manufacturing, transport, security, and construction. These are […]

Microsoft has stirred up a swirling buzz of discussion around the Linkedin acquisition for $26.2 billion. There are a number of angles that have been considered in the gazillion news stories floating around. Here’s a few of those threads: Linkedin is a Salesforce counter by Satya Nadella — It has been argued by Steve Nellis […]

I had a chance to chat last week with Peter Arvai, the founder and CEO of Prezi, the company behind the ‘infinite canvas’ presentation tool of the same name. He wanted to brief me on the company’s progress and plans, and give me a heads up on the company’s new offering, Prezi Business. Prezi is […]

I’ve written for years about my hopes for a ‘social email’ tool — one in which email threads could be 1. shared between coworkers, 2. discussed in chat threads, 3. responded to at will by one or more of the group members. Some of the tools that I have looked at as possible social email solutions […]

An IT help desk is often the first line of support for many organizations. However, some businesses can’t justify the cost of implementing and managing a dedicated help desk to serve the demands of their end users due to a lack of available IT resources or budgetary constraints. This creates a unique challenge: end users […]

Many of us have seen both the hype around wearables as well as the growing number of critiques of the hype. But one thing is clear: what we see in the market now is just the beginning, a warm up band for the main act to follow. In my previous post I discussed the problem […]

This article is the third in a series of six. It is excerpted from Not Everyone Gets a Trophy: How to Manage the Millennials by Bruce Tulgan 1) Care About Your Millennials When I say, “care about your employees,” I’m not saying you need to love your employees as if they really are your own […]

Yes, I am breaking one of my own unwritten rules: putting two question marks in a post title. But this story warrants it, particularly since what I am writing about won’t get much play. Rick Osterloh, the former head of Motorola, left Lenovo a month ago, the owner of the brand. Google, you may recall, had […]

One of the nice things about the Internet Age being relatively new is that many of its earliest pioneers are not only still around, but still doing interesting new work. Among these titans, few loom as large as Bob Metcalfe. Inventor of Ethernet. Coiner of Metcalfe’s Law. Founder of 3com. Bob was there in the […]