From July 15 to August 15 my experiment is to work completely in the cloud, and I’ll be using Google Apps for my daily tasks as much as possible. My colleagues challenged me to put some “skin in the game” so here it is: For every day that I don’t…
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Last year’s white paper “The consumerization of HR” led to a number of invitations from customers and others to share my ideas during keynotes and workshops. It’s been great being able to hear what others think of it. The accompanying presentation is called “The changing face of HR”. I uploaded…
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The Google One Today Fund receives another donation today and the reason for that is the same as earlier this week: I received a password protected Excel file that I could not open with Google Apps. This is getting annoying, so I am going to spend some time this weekend…
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So today was the first day of my Google Experiment where I live completely in the cloud and not use any local applications. And so far so good – which I did not expect this morning. I returned from my annual leave, so I spent most of my day in…
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During a recent #HRTechChat, we were discussing how social media influences HR. One question led to another, until finally we talked about free HR services, which led me to ask: can you run HR on free technology? As this was not the topic, we didn’t discuss it any further, but…
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If you are on Twitter, I am sure you recognize the illustration: the Twitter whale signals that the system is not working as it should. Unless you are in the middle of a tweet-up, Twitter being out of service is unlikely to be more than annoying. But what about other…
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This week’s edition of BusinessWeek contains an interesting cover story titled “The Cloud: Battle of the Tech Titans“. The author gives an overview of the tech companies that have embraced the cloud as the only way forward (Amazon, Google, Microsoft), and contrasts them with companies that view the cloud as…
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