A Musical Swingset Forms A 21-Piece Orchestra
A FIBER-OPTIC-LINKED INSTALLATION IN MONTREAL REWARDS SWINGERS FOR KEEPING IN SYNC BY ADDING NEW INSTRUMENTS TO THE MIX.
A Huge, Fantastical Lullaby Machine, Made For Hospital Patients
STUDIO WEAVE TOOK 10 STORIES OF NEAR-UNUSABLE SPACE AND TRANSFORMED IT INTO A MAGICAL MUSIC MAKER.
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Boyd defines collaborative as top-down compared to more networked and social co-operative work environment.
(via Stowe Boyd, Social is the new production line, not the new water cooler — GigaOM Pro)
This is an important distinction.
One of the most powerful things about enterprise collaboration platforms is their ability to make your company more agile and adaptable. This means that things are going to change and you need to be ok with that. What kind of change are we talking about? Everything has the potential to change ranging from the type of clothing your employees wear to work every day (moving from suits to a more casual style) to your corporate policies to your reporting structure to new roles and titles to how employees are compensated. I’m not saying all of things will change but they can. They key here isn’t to fight back against change but to become more nimble and agile. Don’t be scared to change and know that you are going to have to in order to become successful.
Major 2012 developments in social media:
- The re-unification of social business. While 2011 was dominated by the realization that social media must be connected to daily work to have real impact, 2012 revealed that organizations had created numerous social silos that fragmented their efforts and people, especially when it came to the walls they erected between internal and external social media.
- More major vendors moved into social business. IBM has long been a leader in social business, but up until recently the other software giants either had minor side bets or had platforms that could be social, but was not their primary function. This all changed in 2012 as Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft each doubled-down on social business by making substantial new public commitments to it, major related acquisitions, or introducing new software products.
- Social business became data-driven. You couldn’t sit through a presentation last year without hearing about the confluence of big data and social media, and more specifically how it will allow companies to zero in on ROI. The goal? To turn the mass of global conversations in social media into relevant insights that can improve results in marketing, sales, customer care, product development, and more.
- Mobile hampered social business projects more than it helped them. Strong user pull of mobile devices, which are (potentially) perfect for delivery of social business user experiences, made it awkward for older efforts still rolling out their pre-mobile social marketing and workforce engagement efforts.
- Social business merged with main customer experience. While a few brave souls in years past have thrown away their traditional digital experiences and made them all social, a new view has arisen to merge and combine the traditional and social customer experiences into something more holistic, natural, and expected by today’s consumer.
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