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"In his provocative book The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz's warns that giving consumers more product choices actually lowers their purchase satisfaction. Schwartz reasons that having too many options makes us fear missing out, which causes anxiety, analysis paralysis and regret."

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"It has become accepted wisdom that weak ties — your acquaintances, distant colleagues — can provide more novel information than close ties. But new research by Marshall Van Alstyne, associate professor at Boston University and a visiting professor at MIT, suggests that in some cases strong ties are better."

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"I actually believe there are qualities or behaviors that are distinctly different from business-as-usual and that can help businesses extract value from social media behaviors and technology. To me, they are what define a social business (and, yes, I do mean a business aligned with social media-based behaviors not necessarily a more socially responsible company. This latter definition is important just not my particular focus for now.)

We are a social business. That means we practice what we preach to our clients. There are 5 key behaviors of a social business that we focus on. I would love to hear what others think: "

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" some companies are taking drastic steps to help workers manage the number of messages they receive. The CEO of Atos, a British IT services company, has vowed to ban internal email by 2015. Volkswagen in Germany has agreed to stop sending emails to certain employees after work hours. If these companies are taking radical action, is it time for you to do the same to counter your own overload? "

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"In my last post Don't Cross the Streams, I challenged the idea that integrating multiple sources of information into activity streams is a good thing. This struck a nerve with some people (mainly vendors) while others completely agreed with me. A friend of mine an fellow industry analyst suggested that I follow up by posting possible solutions, so below are the few of the areas I think can help: "

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"So why is collaboration as rare as it is?

The short answer is that collaboration is dangerous. Inherently, collaboration says something is happening outside of one's immediate control. This by itself seems threatening to some, but there are several specific reasons why it appears dangerous:"

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"You have to admire CEO Thierry Breton of Atos for taking a very public stance on the issue, telling ABC, “We are producing data on a massive scale that is fast polluting our working environments and also encroaching into our personal lives,” he goes on to say, “At [Atos] we are taking action now to reverse this trend, just as organizations took measures to reduce environmental pollution after the industrial revolution.”"

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The problem with email today is not an ever-decreasing signal-to-noise ratio. Spam filters are doing a pretty good job. And while I concede that I certainly get a lot of unimportant emails every day, I find it takes me no more than 30 minutes to clear the rubbish out. I’d rather spend my 30 minutes doing that than waste it sitting in a meeting room getting nothing done at all. And, prior to the world of email that’s what we spent our time doing. The most common phrase uttered in the 90’s across work cubicles the world over was – “skip the meeting, send an email.” Email emerged as the centerpiece of collaboration and workflow for good reason."

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"You’ve got mail–not. Employees of tech company Atos will be banned from sending emails under the company’s new “zero email” policy."

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"Il n’y a plus un jour, une conférence, une note, qui ne se réfère à l’entreprise 2.0 et aux formidables changements que vont apporter les applications de partage et de collaboration, la maîtrise de la réalité augmentée, le cloud, etc..

Au delà de l’enthousiasme, il faut « savoir raison garder » et nous méfier de notre capacité à nous émerveiller facilement et de notre candeur."

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"Companies are increasingly adopting social media technologies, using Facebook to reach out to customers or YouTube to demonstrate new products. These are good first steps, but there is so much more that “social” has to offer. Social media is just one dimension of today’s social business."

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""L'IT, un facteur de stress dans l'Entreprise?" est le thème d'une conférence organisée le 8 Juin par le club de DSI, CIONet France. Ce fut l'occasion l'espace d'une soirée d'écouter Yves Lasfargue, directeur de l'OBERGO, spécialiste du management des TIC et du travail, co-auteur du livre "Qualité de vie et santé au travail" et de prendre conscience de l'ampleur de ce phénomène de société."

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"Activity streams have been around a while as a concept, but are getting a bump in interest. IBM talked them up at Lotusphere 2011. Microsoft added an ActivityManager class in SharePoint 2010 for MySite and profile changes, although they didn’t talk about it much or connect it to the rest of SharePoint. In fact, most categorizations place activity streams under “social software” for historical purposes, not that their value is limited to social status updates."

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"I think they are probably one of the most fundamental, critical and relevant 2.0 capabilities that any company can turn into, if they would want to dive into the fascinating world of Enterprise Social Computing, and start seeing the business value right away. It probably cannot get any easier than that. In my own experience, next to my blog(s), they are the most significant component from the 2.0 world that have managed to help me live, rather successfully, “A World Without Email” for the last 4 years and counting… Now, do I feel overloaded because of them? Do I feel they are heading the same way our Inbox has been heading for the last few years? Absolutely not! Quite the opposite. It’s been, all along, if I can say so, quite a liberating experience so far altogether! And here is why."

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"Le courrier électronique s'est glissé sur nos écrans sans crier gare. Certes, face aux lettres, aux fax, au téléphone, les « courriels » permettent de gagner du temps : « Si vous avez dix minutes, vous pouvez passer deux coups de téléphone ou envoyer dix mails », résume Amaury Houdart, DRH de la société de services informatiques Logica, qui compte 39.000 salariés. « C'est une révolution magnifique, mais, dans ce monde de l'immédiateté, il devient urgent de réfléchir pour ne pas se laisser envahir. »"

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"Almost all executives want more and faster information, and almost all companies are racing to provide it. What many of them overlook, though, is that the real aim should be not faster information but faster decision making — and those aren’t the same things."

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"Le salon Solutions Intranet & collaboratif cette semaine, a certainement été un évènement important pour la prise de conscience de cette convergence entre l'intranet et les réseaux sociaux à la sauce collaboratif:" [...] Il est intéressant de comparer avec l'édition 2009 et de voir le chemin parcouru ces deux dernières années. Et pour ceux qui ont lancé en interne leurs premières initiatives à cette époque d'envisager l'avenir.

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"Despite the possibilities for collaboration, a Design News survey reveals engineers are avoiding social networks due to concerns around security and irrelevant information overload."

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"Trend: Activity streams will continue to be a much hyped capability within social platforms. However resulting “stream glut”, interoperability, and security-related issues will threaten benefits unless better user experience design, filtering, standardization, permission models, and back-end analytics are applied. "

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