Phil Simon is probably the world's leading independent expert on workplace collaboration and tech. He is a frequent keynote speaker and the award-winning author of 14 books, most recently The Nine.
Platforms
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On Platforms and Libraries
The biggest danger for libraries across the country: to maintain the status quo.
Miscellany
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How Do You React?
When it comes to tech, do you label yourself as Curious or the Dismissive?
Technology
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On Macs and Facial Expressions
Understanding the genius of Apple.
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Understanding Apple's Success
Why the company is no fluke.
Management
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57 Percent: Facebook's Magic Number
Is too much power in the hands of a company's founder a bad thing?
Platforms
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The Wrong Questions
On today's fixation with traditional queries.
Platforms
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Oh Really, Microsoft?
On the company's convenient position on user privacy.
Platforms
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It's not the Age of Conscription
Google isnβt Wikipedia. It exists to make moneyβamong other reasons
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Twitter 2.0: Becoming More "Platformy"
Twitter is growing up before our eyesβand smartly copying others.
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Platform Myth #1
Thoughts on development tools, communities, APIs, and SDKs.
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Ecosystems Extend Platforms
Rinse. Cycle. Repeat.
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Google's New Privacy Policy
Be transparentβor else.
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On Websites and Montetization
The platform is a means to an endβnot the end itself.
Platforms
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On Websites, Planks, and Platforms
Your site is a plank, not a platform.
Communication
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What to Do When the Interviewer Isn't Prepared
When your counterpart is unprepared.
Platforms
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Yahoo! and the Age of the Platform
The costs of inaction and inertia exceed those of action.
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Why Yahoo! Isn't Google: A Theory
My HuffPo piece comparing the two companies.
Social Media
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New Rule of Social Media: Don't Miss a Last-Second Field Goal