Cracking the carpool conundrum with new collaboration software

Summary: Getting employees to rideshare has always been a difficult challenge for businesses. But Paul McGrath, CEO of Ridespring may have an answer. He’s developed web-based software that organizes carpooling into a one-stop destination, so users can share their daily commute information across the organization more easily. The software also has incentives built-in, so the more employees carpool the more likely they are to be rewarded for ridesharing.

Topics: Software, CXO, Collaboration, IT Employment

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  • RE: Cracking the carpool conundrum with new collaboration software

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      The Enterprise 2.0 Conference moved venue this year to the huge Hynes Conference Center in the heart of Boston, as befits the central role the movement?s thinking and technologies is now playing in the enterprise world, particularly in marketing messaging.

      From a technology vendor perspective improving user interface look and feel and incorporating 2.0 web components and mobile are increasingly table stakes (at the dawn of HTML5 browsers are we going straight to 5.0 next?), and the business attributes and values of social graphs and activity streams are key sales components.
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        Enterprise 2.0 has always been a closely knit community but at this event in particular it felt as though it needed a testosterone shot or two. As I discussed in my previous post, the enterprise world is predominantly a sea of cubicles, Windows XP, old browsers and Blackberries which is struggling with arteriosclerosis of the veins due to clogging with email and documents. I feel for the Enterprise 2.0 sales people who have to prove the value of their products (and frequently set up ?pilot program? tire kicking exercises) often against both waves of indifference and confusion about what the business value actually is.
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        In my professional life working on collaboration strategy inside enterprises I often get my feet held
        Linux Love
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        to the fire with accusations this is all ?fru fru dust? or ?fluffy? from senior execs, typically the result of
        Linux Love
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        their having done some due diligence about all this ?stuff?, and after wading through voluminous
        Linux Love
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        verbiage online and skimming various books (which are all to often aggregations of various blog
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        posts and company case histories which have made the most sense to the author) they don?t find
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        anything focused or pragmatic enough to action against. There is now plenty of excellent software
        Linux Love
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        that is fit for purpose - the challenge is finding what that purpose actually is in the pragmatic context
        Linux Love
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        I sometimes have to swim upstream with clients in order to first flush out any bum information they
        Linux Love
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        think all this ?stuff? is about and then get them dialed in to where the value is for them in the context
        Linux Love
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        Overcoming this reality to unlock the power of greater collaboration, cross pollination and information sharing inside companies is fundamentally about instilling trust, sense of purpose and ?what?s in it for me? within individuals - the enabling technologies are the easy part. There are always more than enough tenured folks in business and universities with the time and platform to publish their opinions of what they see happening out there, but there?s a world of difference between observations and actually doing, as the grumblers around the water cooler or on their coffee break will tell you? and it?s those folks you?ve ultimately got to empower with Enterprise 2.0 if anything new is going to<a href="http://ipadbagblog.com/"><font color="light&height"> ipad bag blog</font></a> of best <a href="http://www.sutudeg.org/"><font color="light&height">sutudeg community</font></a> the modern <a href="http://wposfv.com/"><font color="light&amp;height">education news</font></a> and country happen.
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        or more frequently republish someone else?s - online. The blind leading the blind syndrome is exactly
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    of their specific business.
    Linux Love