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Full story: FIR Interview: Jeanne C. Meister, co-author, "The 2020 Workplace"
By 2020, five distinct generations will be employed by organizations, presenting a broad set of challenges and opportunities for organizations. The 2020 Workplace is based on two comprehensive studies conducted by the authors, Jeanne Meister and Karie Willyerd, exploring the expectations of these generations and how organizations will need to adapt their workplaces to this unique employee population. Get this podcast: Download the MP3 file (15.6Mb, 39:02) Get the show on iTunes Subscribe to the FIR Interviews RSS feed Get…
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Full story: The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #565: September 20, 2010
Content summary: Shel’s on his own; Dell meetup in London Monday night and Dell interviews and a panel discussion are on their way; interview with The 2020 Workplace co-author Jeanne Meister coming; FIR Live could feature Josh Bernoff and Ted Schadler; listener comments and Friendfeed room roundup; news summary covering a social media shutdown that failed, a McDonalds FourSquare campaign, Twitter backgrounds, the growing importance of live online video, and a study on the likelihood of Twitter followers to buy…
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Full story: Adding smarts to your bank cards
Here’s a product where the ‘2.0’ moniker could be very apt indeed – bank cards, those rectangular pieces of plastic you get from your bank or credit card company that are essential requirements today for completing purchases online and offline. A US company, Dynamics Inc, is developing a new generation of bank cards – ‘bank cards 2.0’ – that gives real meaning to the word ‘smart’ in smartcards (you can get an instant clue to this from Dynamics’ web address:…
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Full story: The Dell Streak: more than a smartphone
"Is it a phone? Is it a tablet? An iPad killer? Or what?" These are the questions that stood out to me in much of the online commentary about the Dell Streak, the new mobile device launched by Dell a few months ago. And many people answer such questions by describing it as a smartphone. Thanks to my friends at Dell, I have a Dell Streak which I’ve been discovering a little this weekend. You could technically describe the Streak…











