Two weeks ago, I attended HRTechEurope. Marc Coleman and his team have done a wonderful job getting this event off the ground and I enjoyed myself tremendously. Interesting seminars, lots of new technology and eminent speakers. But just like last year, some of the sessions left me feeling a bit,…
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From July 15 to August 15 2013 I carried out my Google Experiment: I wanted to see if I could move completely to the cloud. At the end of my trial period, I have come to the conclusion that it worked out better than I thought. Some days I was…
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From July 15 to August 15 my experiment is to work completely in the cloud, and I’ll be using Google Apps for my daily tasks as much as possible. My colleagues challenged me to put some “skin in the game” so here it is: For every day that I don’t…
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Last year’s white paper “The consumerization of HR” led to a number of invitations from customers and others to share my ideas during keynotes and workshops. It’s been great being able to hear what others think of it. The accompanying presentation is called “The changing face of HR”. I uploaded…
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I was all set to write a daily blog post about my switch to Google Apps also knows as #theGoogleExperience. Turns out, there’s nothing more to say. And since I don’t like reading blogs about ‘nothing’ I won’t continue with the daily updates as I don’t intend to bore my…
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The Google One Today Fund receives another donation today and the reason for that is the same as earlier this week: I received a password protected Excel file that I could not open with Google Apps. This is getting annoying, so I am going to spend some time this weekend…
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I’m almost embarrassed to mention that the Google One Today Fund won’t be receiving a donation today and it’s not because I spent most of my day in meetings. On the contrary, today was a quiet day which gave me a lot of time to catch up on outstanding emails,…
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I’ve just finished day 3 of my Google Experiment and I’m really getting the hang of this. I realize this is not good news for the One Today fund, but today was another ‘Cloud only’ day even though I did not have a lot of meetings. I’m still struggling with…
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Today I realized that this cliche is very true: “old habits die hard” and that getting used to a new system also means letting go of a lot of automatic actions, that I repeat so frequently on a daily base that I don’t even think about it anymore. So yes,…
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So today was the first day of my Google Experiment where I live completely in the cloud and not use any local applications. And so far so good – which I did not expect this morning. I returned from my annual leave, so I spent most of my day in…
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