J. LeRoy's Evolving Web (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Laura Fisher posted this on Jing today. This is a great example of how to utterly destroy yourself with social media. What we see here is a guy who, apparently, wants to be your (the plural your) personal brand strategist....
J. LeRoy's Evolving Web (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
When I work with clients to create sustainable change in their corporate cultures, I am often faced with challenges dealing with the use of positional power. Change often needs to happen quickly in order to meet the goals of management....
J. LeRoy's Evolving Web (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
Sometimes gifts fall out of thin air. This week, Noop.nl came out with a list of the Top 100 Blogs for Development Managers (Q3 2008). The Modus Cooperandi partners (David, Corey and I) all made it into the list. This...
J. LeRoy's Evolving Web (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Charlie owns a few things, a wholesale bakery, a few burger joints, some other odds and ends. And he checks regularly for mentions of his businesses on the web. Yelp, blogs, google reviews, where ever. Charlie replies to every review,...
J. LeRoy's Evolving Web (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
One thing that people do really well is over solve problems. We design bloatware, bureaucracy and blockages to progress. By limiting the number of characters in any communication, microsharing tools seek to hold the communicator to the essence of the...
J. LeRoy's Evolving Web (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
I have been soundly disappointed in the Enterprise 2.0 movement. It's unrelenting focus on a few mundane tools - rather than actual management applications - has been uninspiring. Social Media in the workplace should not be "Wikis are good" or...
J. LeRoy's Evolving Web (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
Bringing Agile into a larger organization is not a scalability issue, it is an integration issue.
J. LeRoy's Evolving Web (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
I went to drop my car off for some maintenance at Carter Saab in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood and found myself locked out of both Facebook and Flickr by the Carter Wifi. What this says to me is that Carter, as...
J. LeRoy's Evolving Web (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
Modus Cooperandi has finally launched our training program. We intended to start out with training courses, but our client work was so voluminous it took us a while to get the courses to a state where we felt comfortable. The...
J. LeRoy's Evolving Web (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Two cold calling stories in two days means blog post. Cold Call One - PBS Global A few weeks ago I received a call from a company that helped people either sell their companies or liquidate assets. Gray Hill has...
J. LeRoy's Evolving Web (Free subscription) | 02/08/2008
"It's not you I hate , it's what you made me become." - Miles O'Brien (more or less) So, I don't hate Powerpoint, but recently I wrote a piece about how concept maps make excellent presentation engines. That caused a...
J. LeRoy's Evolving Web (Free subscription) | 02/08/2008
While I won't personally be at Agile 2008, just about everyone else from Modus will, look for our logo bopping around. I also wanted to call specific attention to the topics on Kanban and Pull Systems at Agile 2008. Note...
J. LeRoy's Evolving Web (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008
The Obama campaign has made very skilled and rather honest use of social media and the Internet in general. That's been exciting to watch. It's been fun to watch. They .. almost ... get it. In today's skeptical and information-rich...
J. LeRoy's Evolving Web (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
I recently wrote about Killing Your Board - inviting groups to get over board of directors worship and get on with the actual mission of their organizations. Last week, APLN Seattle and Modus Cooperandi hosted the APLN Leadership Summit in...
J. LeRoy's Evolving Web (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
A few weeks back, ZAAZ hosted a little get together where Nancy White gave a great chat about Social Networking Fatigue and Slow Community. It's about 15 minutes long, give it a quick watch. It's definitely worth the 15 minutes....
