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This is the second in a series on notifications and alerts, building on what I started sharing earlier today, as promised. First, a musical interlude. Someone’s knocking at the door, somebody’s ringing the bell/ Do me a favour/Open the door/And let them in. Mum, the kettle’s boiling/Daddy, what’s the time/Sis, look what you’re doing/Can’t you … Continue reading “Thinking lazily about notifications and alerts: Part 2”
The first “job” I ever had was mind-numbingly boring. I had to go every morning to Kidderpore Docks in Calcutta, find my way to a steelyard there, walk over to the only building in the steelyard, and proceed to occupy that space from 8am to 5pm. A desolate job in a desolate … Continue reading “Of sharing and millionaires and learning: A Sunday stroll”
What I said last year The headline of my closing post last year, written on 30 December 2012, was “…and then you win….Gandhi, platforms and 2013″. In the two posts on either side of that one, I’d majored on platforms as well: On habanero dosas, platforms and makers and On platforms and sharing. I’d fairly … Continue reading “Yes, 2013 was the year of the platform. And there’s more to come in 2014”
Introduction I signed off last year with a couple of posts asserting that 2013 was going to be The Year of the Platform. So I thought it behooves me to get this year started with the same message. When I speak of platforms, I tend to speak of open adaptive constructs that allow people to … Continue reading “On platforms and sharing”
Note: This is the seventh in a series of posts about the Social Enterprise and the Big Shift. The first post provided an introduction and overall context; the second looked specifically at collaboration, working together; the third looked at optimising performance, enjoying work, working more effectively. The fourth, Doing By Learning, looked at how work … Continue reading “More on Trust in the Social Enterprise”