Interview: Video is a powerful tool for global finance
And I'm not talking about Mad Money. Although Jim Cramer's show does hint at the need and the value of enterprise video as a tool for bankers, traders and analysts. The financial services market is all about time to knowledge. Whoever acts first on a...
Video – the new document for business messaging
Workers are people too. Meaning that every employee brings their quirks, habits and favorite ways to navigate their personal lives with them to work every day. Consumer behavior has been the driver for many technology advances in business. Device adoption...
Get closer to reality with enterprise video
Last week I was hiking with my family at Yosemite. It was gorgeous, and we were stopping every few steps to take pictures. Around every corner was an even more breathtaking view requiring another photo. But as you can imagine, those pictures don't do...
Life imitates Art – and Art is now being streamed live on video
My colleague in the UK told me about the hottest exhibition ticket in London at the moment: the British Museum’s Pompeii show. She was disappointed to find out that it was completely sold out. She went to the show anyway - via a live video feed of a...
Employees won’t wait to watch slow-loading videos
2 seconds. That's how long some consumers will wait before abandoning a streamed video that hasn't started playing, according to a University of Massachusetts study. After 5 seconds of waiting, 25% of viewers are gone. After 10 seconds, half have left....
Four reasons “YouTube for the Enterprise” isn’t good enough
tibbr is a social network for business. But don't call them Facebook for the Enterprise! Businesses have different needs than consumers, which requires their social collaboration tools to be more than what Facebook can be. Social video is exactly the...
The Emperor has no clothes – but it’s OK, he’s working from home
Working In-person is more productive than working remotely. Can anyone deny this? Marissa Mayer's decree against working from home for Yahoo employees was a courageous step. But admitting that the best work gets done face-to-face begs the question for...
Expanding use cases for enterprise video
Who is this guy? He is a luminary in the field of computer science. Does anybody know him? To anecdotally attest to his popularity: back in the late 90s, I attended a sold-out presentation that he gave in NYC that was followed by a standing ovation. After...
Spare your employees from “corporate spam”
The Consumerization of IT is often blamed for Bring Your Own Device and other disruptive changes to IT infrastructure happening in most companies today. But the impact of this trend goes beyond IT. The same concept applies to the content and...