Last week, I wrote a post with tips on staying productive in the office. This week, a colleague sent me a 2009 Harvard Business Review article on another blight on office productivity… “mean girls” (meeoow!). That’s right, folks, the Harvard Business Review published a very serious article on the negative impact of “mean girls” in the workplace.  According to the article: (more…)

Today, Open Mobile Solutions (OMS) announced which mobile apps will be demoed at the four Developer Pitch Sessions at CTIA Wireless next week.  The line-up of developers and mobile applications/ products looks great: (more…)

Okay, it’s not exactly a party, but if you’re a mobile developer, it’s close…Nokia is hosting their annual Nokia Developer Summit in – wait for it – San Francisco on June 9-10 at the Concourse Exhibition Center.  Amen, and thank you, Nokia, for answering my prayers and hosting something big for developers in the Bay Area.

It’s good to see the Finns reaching out to mobile developers outside of Europe.  This is going to be a good opportunity for US mobile developers to look under the hood at how to develop for new technologies like Maemo, QT and Web Runtime as well as existing technologies like Symbian.  It’ll also be a good way to learn about distributing apps on the Ovi store.

I wish the event were free, but it’s $450. The good news is that there’s an early bird registration discount of $150 off the regular price for developers that register here before March 31, 2010.

Here are the highlights from my business-related tweets last week.  If you’d like to read all of my tweets, please visit me on Twitter. (more…)

Following up on my earlier post about the Developer Pitch Sessions at CTIA in Las Vegas, CTIA just added a second panel on”Gaining Distribution” to the official agenda.  I’m looking forward to moderating this new panel, “Gaining Distribution- Panel B” on Wednesday, March 24, 3-4pm.

So far, there is a great panel of experts confirmed for this session including: (more…)

I just updated the SocializeMobilize calendar with some new events – including those that I’ll be attending at CTIA in Las Vegas March 22-25th.  You can check it out here.

Here are the highlights from my last week on Twitter. To see all of my tweets, please visit me on Twitter. (more…)

When I’m not in client meetings or on the road, I am usually working from my home office.  Friends and colleagues regularly ask whether I get lonely or distracted working from home, and my answer is always  “no.“   They often say things like, “I don’t think I could work from home…” “I’d get lonely…” “There are too many distractions at home…” etc.  Feeling lonely is a rarity since I’m in meetings and/or phone calls every day.  As for distractions go, in my experience there are way more distractions in an traditional workplace environment then a home office… (more…)

Today the World Economic Forum announced its 2010 list of the top 200-300 Young Global Leaders (YGL) Honourees.  You can download the full list here.  Among those on the list that mobile and web enthusiasts might know are:

• Ev Williams, Co-founder and CEO of Twitter
• Marissa Mayer, Vice-President, Search Product and User Experience at Google
• Anand Chandrasekaran, Director, Products at Openwave Systems Inc.
• George Hu, Executive Vice-President, Marketing and Alliances, Salesforce.com (more…)

Here are my Twitter highlights over the last week. To see all of my tweets, please visit me on Twitter.

• Heading back to SF from London on Tuesday afternoon. It’s been a great trip! #
• @tomiahonen That’s interesting… Especially since they created MOTOMAGIX (sp?) & it didn’t last. Differentiating is tough on both HW & SW. in reply to tomiahonen #
• Check out these 3 great panels at #CTIA for #mobile #developers: 1) VC funding 2) Gaining Distribution 3) Monetizing http://ow.ly/1aOYF #
• Want a free pass to #CTIA Use the code “OMS4CTIA” & sign up for the Developer Pitch Sessions by Open Mobile Solutions: http://ow.ly/1aPEP #
• Daily traffic on SocializeMobilize.com nearly 1/2ed after #MWC10 My MWC party list was a hit! Trying to come up w/ a good replacement post. #
• Any developers out there looking for speaking opps at #CTIA If so, ping me. I’m looking developers with stories of mobile monetization. # (more…)