So often we keep or demand score cards on the performance of our subordinates or delegates. Have we thought of doing the same for ourselves? If we don’t have a board or investors to report to – who measures us? If we have these, do they measure more than tracking bottom line profitability numbers? What are our other measurements of success?
MailChimp for Salesforce – Generate Leads from subscriptions to your newsletters
MailChimp for Salesforce is an App created by MailChimp and available for free in the Salesforce.com AppExchange. I recently installed the App in my Salesforce account in order to sync subscribers of our weekly into Salesforce Leads and contacts. I’ve been so impressed with this integration that I decided to focus this week’s blog post […]
Those lazy hazy days of summer – how do you handle slow times at work?
With the summer now drawing to close, I thought it might be a bit of fun to reflect on some of the things I like to do myself and within my teams with these loose cycles to regenerate, keep motivated and get things done.
Bring Your Own Cloud – The challenge for IT to publically manage private data
With Bring your Own Device (BYOD) now common place in most Enterprise IT environments, the use of the Personal Cloud is being used as a solution to how users manage and share data across multiple personal devices. This new trend is aptly referred to as Bring your Own Cloud (BYOC). The management of which is a concern to security conscious corporate CIOs.
How to Address Handling Risks on Projects
Three of the fundamental project governance knowledge areas in the PMI PMBOK are risk management, issue management, and change management. To me they are very much related. A Risk is something that might happen that will have an impact on the planned project. An issue is something that has happened and is negatively impacting the project, essentially a Risk with probability 100%. A Change is an adjustment to the planned project to address the Risk or Issue.
Authorize subscriber Social networks in your online site or app
An important though optional feature for your website or mobile app is providing your users a method to authenticate using social networks and/or to authorize you to have access to their information or social features. Facebook, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn and others offer methods, often using an open protocol such as OAuth , for developers to implement user authorized access to their platform. There are a number of advantages for providing this, as well as a few things to consider.
