I love the idea of peer groups, networking associations, co-working spaces, team work-shops and unconferences. I really do. I go to all these events, try and help out, speak, give time, free consulting and even the occasional drunken rant. These…
Startup Bus, Tampa Team on Miami Bus
Brainstorm an idea, and launch a fully-functioning company based on it… in 72 hours. On a bus. If it’s good, it will become a real company, backed by serious venture capitalists. P.S. Don’t expect to sleep. Linked with Austin, SXSW…
Social Content Creation Inside an Organization
Blogging, Tweeting and “the” Facebooks are now deeply part of the modern business culture. We all have some sort of feeling that our communities built around our business are powerful marketing tools, or at the very least, a way of…
Potential Solutions to the Great IT Cultural Divide
Last post I talked about how the strong cultural bond in IT departments (and nerd/geek culture in general), can damage organizational trust, cohesion, general pleasantness and ultimately profit. Now let’s look at drilling down into the rest of the organization…
How IT and Geek Culture Can Cause Problems
Last time I explored some of the reasons why we as IT folk tend to stick together. I also talked a bit about how culture can both allow you to thrive with your own kind, but also fail to see…
IT Cultural Fluency
As a factor in (sales, service, software and technology adoption, costs, collaboration, innovation etc) The issue: What you don’t know CAN hurt you. We all wear blinkers (“blinders” in US English). These are hard-wired, in the sense that we can’t…