Mobile and Where We Work - Anytime, Anyplace

 The previous blog post on mobile noted how quickly the latest in organization and technology have reinforced each other to create a whole new playing field of flexibility and productivity.  One of more obvious ways this shows up is where we work from has changed so dramatically.    For most of us, our workspace is no longer limited to, or even defined by our physical office or cubicle. 

No longer is our office our office. 

Mobile and Organization: Everything Has Changed

Everything has changed.  

Maybe a little dramatic, but the transformation in how we work is astonishing.  The world of clear lines between work and personal life, just a few technology choices and highly structured work groups is over.  

In an amazingly fast way, the latest in organization and technology have reinforced each other to create a whole new playing field of flexibility and productivity.

4 specific trends help to illustrate this new world:

3 More Factors Driving the Need to Break the Barrier Between Applications and Content

Our most recent blog post on integrating content with applications with Open Cloud Connector talked about the big impact of being able to find, view, share, edit and approve content such as proposals and presentations right from your CRM system, or resumes and offer letters right from your Human Capital Management application.

Breaking the Barrier Between Applications and Content - Part 1

Recently we announced our new Open Cloud Connector, building on the success of our Cloud Connectors for salesforce and Cloud Connector for SharePoint.

Cloud and iPad: Making Working from Anywhere Easier

We typically write about big-picture technology topics, but technology impacts us at a personal level too, making things easier for business people to get their work done, while making their lives simpler.   The new way we work is about doing what we need anytime, anywhere, with everything and everyone.

Content Marketing: 6 Essentials to Getting it Right and Being More Productive

Introduction

What is content marketing?  Creating and sharing content to promote your product or service.  Yawn, that was boring.

Perhaps a little wordy, but how about this: content marketing is the art and science of engaging your potential buyers in a conversation long before they say hello, so they’re more likely to buy from you.

Wait, isn’t that social marketing?  It is that too, but either way it’s about a conversation.

Salesforce.com Customers Looking for Easier Ways to Manage Content According to Survey

SpringCM recently commissioned a survey of over 100 salesforce.com customers on the role and effectiveness of document management with Salesforce CRM.

Importance of salesforce

If you attended Dreamforce 2011 or Cloudforce NYC in November, you saw and felt all the energy there, and will not be surprised by the response to the first question in our survey, as nearly all those surveyed responded that salesforce was both very important and valuable to their organization. 

Getting the Work of Content Marketing Done - 6 Essential Steps

What is content marketing? Content marketing is the art and science of engaging your potential buyers in a conversation long before they say “hello,” so they’re more likely to buy from you.

Answers to Top 6 Questions on Free SpringCM VIP Edition for salesforce.com

The need to better manage your content with salesforce.com really hit home at Dreamforce, where we talked to over 1,200 attendees about just 15 of the ways salesforce.com customers can rock their content using SpringCM without leaving their platform of choice.   

Sales Contract Management Challenges – 3 Top Signs of Contract Chaos

In the last post we talked about the underlying reasons for sales contract management challenges such as: