Archive for the “Collaboration” Category

Crowdcast Press Round-Up

Posted on July 9th, 2010 by leslie

My apologies for the radio silence on this blog of late.  We’ve been heads down busy with a big round of funding, some major product enhancements, and releasing a new look and way of talking about what we do.  I promise you’ll be hearing a lot more from us on this blog, so stay tuned. [...]

Drinking the Kool-Aid, part 2

Posted on February 22nd, 2010 by matt

A couple weeks back I wrote about our “new mech” project, a wholesale redesign and reimplementation of our knowledge aggregation mechanism. In this post I will talk about why traditional project management techniques failed us and how Crowdcast helped us to recover. As I mentioned last time, our initial attempt at running the project revolved [...]

Implications of Opening the Communication Floodgates

Posted on January 22nd, 2010 by leslie

In the New York Times’ weekly Corner Office column, the January 16th interviewee was Cristobal Conde of Fortune 500 company, SunGard. He spoke to the collaborative management methodologies that had been instilled at his company and how they altered their day-to-day workflow. Among other tactics, Conde mentions cutting back on micromanaging and using Yammer, a [...]