by Jamie Notter | Dec 19, 2012 | Social Media
Two stories on the internet caught my attention this week. The first was a blog post from Mark Schaefer on the business case for buying facebook likes. Yes, that’s the business case FOR buying them. His argument seems to be that whether it makes sense or not, we...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 17, 2012 | Announcements, Humanize, Learning
Time is running out to be a part of the inaugural “21st Century Nonprofit” program that Maddie and I are doing with NTEN, the Nonprofit Technology Network. The program begins in early January, and you need to fill out a brief application in order to be...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 14, 2012 | Culture, Humanize
I read in Forbes about a new list out of the best places to work, and this one is from Glassdoor. Unlike some of the other lists, where the companies actually apply to be on the list, this one is a big survey of employees across lots of companies (500,000 people...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 12, 2012 | Consulting, Individual Development, Managing People
Way back in 2005 I said performance reviews were a problem (in We Have Always Done It That Way–still a good book, if I do say so myself). Since then, many others have been coming out against performance reviews–like these articles in the New York Times,...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 11, 2012 | Humanize, Managing People
Valve is a computer software company that’s on my list to research more, because it definitely exhibits “humanize” tendencies. It’s received a lot of attention for its new employee handbook, which is not the traditional, dry list of policies...