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Nortel on HyperConnectivity

Posted in Blogging by wayne.porter on May 31st, 2008

Nortel Networks comments on our impending hyperconnected and virtual future after commissioning IDC to track close to 2,400 working adults in 17 countries.

  • Based on the number of respondents in certain clusters and then factoring in the rate of workers entering the workforce and retiring and likely adoption rates — they estimate that the sixteen percent of the total information workforce currently “hyperconnected” may soon increase to a startling forty percent.
  • The hyperconnected depend on the devices and applications that make them hyperconnected — forty seven percent said a network outage at work would have an extreme impact on them. Technology supporting the hyperconnected has become mission critical!

  • The boundary between work and personal connectivity for the hyperconnected is almost nonexistent. Two-thirds use text or instant messaging for both work and personal use. More than a third use social networking for both. The freedom to conduct work during personal time will force changes to personal use policies, business practices, training curricula, and IT support policies.

  • The migration to Hyperconnectivity will create a profusion of devices, applications, and new business processes. Already, the average hyperconnected individual uses at least nine devices to access the network and seven connectivity applications. This profusion will create the need for a strategy and architecture for unified communications across the enterprise if an orderly migration is to occur.

  • As baby boomers retire, businesses will find themselves competing within today’s hyperconnected base of talent. Is your company ready to compete in the emerging war for talent? Tomorrow’s workforce will increasingly expect to work in a hyperconnected communications environment and many will consider this a condition of employment.

  • Connectivity tools in the hands of employees may increase productivity, but they also increase the risk of the release of sensitive information to the outside world. Already a fourth of hyperconnected respondent companies use blogs and wikis to communicate with customers and other outsiders.

    • It is unavoidable…hyperconnectivity is coming and coming fast.

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    Systematics, Marketing, Government…

    Posted in Future Shock by wayne.porter on May 10th, 2008

    Thinking about online marketing, the state of our planet and the U.S. government I am reminded of some of the general rules of systematics…

    - If anything can go wrong, it will. (see Murphy’s law)

    - Systems in general work poorly or not at all.

    - Complicated systems seldom exceed five percent efficiency.

    - In complex systems, malfunction and even total non-function may not be
    detectable for long periods if at all.

    - A system can fail in an infinite number of ways.

    - Systems tend to grow, and as they grow, they encroach.

    - As systems grow in complexity, they tend to oppose their stated function.

    - As systems grow in size, they tend to lose basic functions.

    - The larger the system, the less the variety in the product.

    - The larger the system, the narrower and more specialized the interfaces
    between individual elements.

    - Control of a system is exercised by the element with the greatest variety
    of behavioral responses.

    - Loose systems last longer and work better.

    - Complex systems exhibit complex and unexpected behaviors.

    - Colossal systems foster colossal errors.

    - Choose your systems with care…

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    Why I Stick With Twitter

    Posted in Social Networks, Twitter, Web 2.0 by wayne.porter on May 10th, 2008

    ON CONNECTIVITY

    I recently took a nice, long and overdue break from online living and it was great - everything I hoped it would be and more.

    Too much connectivity is neither healthy nor recommended. I come back with the intention to put technology in its place. It is to serve me. I do not have to serve technology. So I had my first real vacation in years and I can report that it was great- I am going to take more.

    On that note I spent some time catching up on the latest news and happenings. Although I have given up on the e-mail backlog. During my time off I had a few frantic friends e-mail, twitter and they finally resorted to the phone. I admit it was lame not to tell anyone I was taking a break, but good to know after a time friends would send out a search party.

    FOUR REASONS I STAY

    I observed, during my catch-up reading a lot of people grumbling about Twitter down time and wanting to leave. Many complained the service was flaky and patchy. I will admit Twitter has its problems. I stick with Twitter through the good times and the growing pains, (not to mention writing and reading about the reactions) for four reasons.

    • Free: It is free. Even though I would gladly pay for the service it continues to remain free.  

    • Works: It serves my needs in experimental media. At this moment it does what I need.

    • Community: My friends and colleagues use the service. Community is everything and I have developed some great friendships and business using Twitter.

    • Fandom: Most importantly, and the most important reason- I am a fan and I am loyal. True fandom cannot be bought.

    IT IS O.K. TO BE LOYAL

    It troubles me how fickle people seem to be these days. They are happy to dump something because it isn’t perfect or a service is experiencing growing pains. Twitter started a really neat way of self reflection and more and more people showed up.

    Of course we turned it into a new medium for conversation and communication because that is what people do. I think the laws of systematics are in effect. The more people that are present the more complex the system tends to become.

    I admit at times it is a virtual “Tower of Babel”. However, new technology comes along to augment the service so communications can continue. It also continues to change how we interact and use the medium. I think it is exciting to be a part of this change. (Hat Tip to Sam Harrelson for introducing me to the service.)

    FOOD FOR THOUGHT- BACK TO BASIC TWITTER

    Since I am on the topic of going off-grid and the values of self-reflection let me give readers a useful exercise as a parting shot.

    Twitter asks:   “What are you doing?”

    Four very simple words. I thought about them quite a bit on my vacation. What am I doing with my life, my family, my job, my friends, my career or just what am I doing right now? Am I living in the moment? I know at the end I will wish I had those moments back… Life is so fleeting and so fast that I, and perhaps others, often forget to really live in the moment and enjoy just living.

    SIMPLE QUESTION- EASY ANSWERS?

    I also played with the inflection of the different words sounding out each word and adding stress as a sort of meditation or personal exercise.
    Try it yourself and see how the question is changed.

    WHAT are you doing?

    What ARE you doing?

    What are YOU doing?

    What are you DOING?

    It is intersting how a question’s intent can be changed by a minor alteration in emphasis. So I stick with Twitter. It asks a question, a very simple and very important question.

    ADDENDUM: Update made for spacing and clarity.

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