Ann Bamesberger and Eric Richert are pioneering thought leaders in area of distributed work. For nearly 20 years they have developed and integrated programs, practices and technologies for collaborating across time and space that optimize effectiveness while minimizing social costs to employees. Rather than purvey canned solutions, Ann and Eric understand the value of tailoring programs to contents and the nature of the work at hand. What sets Ann and Eric apart from so many others who promote distributed work is not just their long experience but their pragmatism built on a body of solid empirical research which they have assembled over the years in collaboration with researchers in a variety of universities.
-Stephen R. Barley
Richard Weiland Professor , Co-Director, Center for Work, Technology and Organization Department of Management Science and Engineering
sábado, 13 de noviembre de 2010
domingo, 7 de noviembre de 2010
Testimony
Eric, Ann, and Mark are thought leaders in developing "alternative" work environments that support the ways that work is done in today's enterprises. Not only do they understand how people work, they appreciate differences between cultures and across geographic boundaries. The OpenWork environment they developed at Sun Microsystems became a key value for Sun, fully supportive of employees in their work and of Sun's vision of networked computing.
-Crawford Beveridge
Former Executive Vice President, Human Resources, Sun Microsystems
-Crawford Beveridge
Former Executive Vice President, Human Resources, Sun Microsystems
sábado, 6 de noviembre de 2010
Our Team is Unique
Co3 Group aims to improve our client’s effectiveness and reduce the cost of workplace infrastructure by leveraging web-based tools and best practices to bring people together. We are able to do this because of our diverse, experienced, and educated team. Years of experience in the field and groundbreaking achievements allow our staff to provide our clients with cutting edge techniques and engineering to improve your businesses productivity.
Mark Wartenberg
Mark brings nearly 25 years of experience in environmental, data center and prototype design to Co3 Group's mission of designing and providing systems that support contemporary work. He has a broad range of experience not only in design but in program, project, construction and operations management in both the public and private sectors. Trained as a musician, architect, and mechanical engineer, over the last 5 years, Mark has focused his attentions on broadening the traditional definition of the workplace, understanding the impacts its' evolution is having and designing ways organizations can take advantage of the countless opportunities the new workplace presents. He has developed a special expertise in understanding technology and collaboration across distance and translating this into new "workplace infrastructure" designs.
Working with long time colleagues, Ann Bamesberger, and Eric Richert, Mark designed the workplace infrastructure at Sun Microsystems for the last 6 years. He created the workplace design standards deployed across the world to help enable Sun's Open Work flexible offices. After becoming the Director of Global Workplace Design Mark took on the responsibility for creating the functionality requirements that became the road map for Sun's IT organization as they evolved to support a majority mobile population. Mark designed and implemented a cost effective, and globally scalable telepresence solution for Sun at less than 25% of the cost of the current market leaders. This enabled a vastly broader implementation and an increased adoption rate.
Sought after as a speaker and expert on how to design and operate an effective contemporary workplace, Mark has presented to numerous forums including the AIA, CoreNet Global, the State of Massachusetts, City of Boston, Harvard, MIT and Tufts University. He has taught seminars on using technology tools and designing technology infrastructure for collaboration.
Mark joined Sun in 1998. Prior to Sun, Mark held a broad range of private and public sector positions designing innovative ways to solve problems including retail store design and implementation (American Stores/Albertson's), Data centers, operations and processing centers, secure money centers and branch banks (Fleet Bank/Bank of America), US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as well as architectural and engineering practice. His design solutions have been purchased for development by the US Government, the City of Boston and MIT.
Mark's education includes a BArch from the Boston Architectural College, BA from the University of Massachusetts, MM New England conservatory of Music and graduate studies in engineering at Northeastern University.
Working with long time colleagues, Ann Bamesberger, and Eric Richert, Mark designed the workplace infrastructure at Sun Microsystems for the last 6 years. He created the workplace design standards deployed across the world to help enable Sun's Open Work flexible offices. After becoming the Director of Global Workplace Design Mark took on the responsibility for creating the functionality requirements that became the road map for Sun's IT organization as they evolved to support a majority mobile population. Mark designed and implemented a cost effective, and globally scalable telepresence solution for Sun at less than 25% of the cost of the current market leaders. This enabled a vastly broader implementation and an increased adoption rate.
Sought after as a speaker and expert on how to design and operate an effective contemporary workplace, Mark has presented to numerous forums including the AIA, CoreNet Global, the State of Massachusetts, City of Boston, Harvard, MIT and Tufts University. He has taught seminars on using technology tools and designing technology infrastructure for collaboration.
Mark joined Sun in 1998. Prior to Sun, Mark held a broad range of private and public sector positions designing innovative ways to solve problems including retail store design and implementation (American Stores/Albertson's), Data centers, operations and processing centers, secure money centers and branch banks (Fleet Bank/Bank of America), US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as well as architectural and engineering practice. His design solutions have been purchased for development by the US Government, the City of Boston and MIT.
Mark's education includes a BArch from the Boston Architectural College, BA from the University of Massachusetts, MM New England conservatory of Music and graduate studies in engineering at Northeastern University.
Eric Richert
Eric Richert brings years of experience to Co3 Group’s mission to design and prove systems that support contemporary work. Prior to starting Co3 Group, Ltd. with long time colleagues Ann Bamesberger and Mark Wartenberg, Eric was principal of 8 Corners Consulting, providing services to organizations such as Stanford University and the New Ways of Working Network. That work was based on nearly 20 years creating and managing pioneering work environments for Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Eric joined Sun in 1988 to manage the design and development of its Research and Development campuses and, as Vice President in Sun’s Workplace Resources organization, managed most aspects of corporate work environments. He co-founded Sun’s Open Work Solutions group in 1997 with Ann Bamesberger and started 8 Corners Consulting in 2007.
From 1997 to 2007 the Open Work program became a key part of Sun, with over half of its 35,000 employees choosing to be full participants. Open Work enabled participants to be as flexible and mobile as needed to operate “anytime, anywhere” in a diverse global company. The program directly contributed to achieving Sun’s vision of “The Network is the Computer,” now referred to as cloud computing. Annual surveys showed that Open Work was viewed as a primary employee benefit while allowing Sun to save or avoid nearly $400 million of costs from 2000 to 2007.
Open Work was widely seen as an innovative program that uniquely integrated technology, management policies and practices and real estate resources to support contemporary work. It was recognized through awards such as Corenet’s Global Innovation Award (2002) and the Alliance for Work Life Progress Innovative Excellence Award (2005).
Eric received his MBA from the University of California at Berkeley and his Master of Architecture degree from Syracuse University. He has been a speaker for the American Institute of Architects, Corenet, and the Environmental Design and Research Association, and has advised European Commission IT planners and the U.S. House Committee on Governmental Reform on how to support contemporary work. Eric has written for textbooks and has been frequently interviewed for articles about alternative work environments. He is an active charter member of the New Ways of Working Network.
Eric joined Sun in 1988 to manage the design and development of its Research and Development campuses and, as Vice President in Sun’s Workplace Resources organization, managed most aspects of corporate work environments. He co-founded Sun’s Open Work Solutions group in 1997 with Ann Bamesberger and started 8 Corners Consulting in 2007.
From 1997 to 2007 the Open Work program became a key part of Sun, with over half of its 35,000 employees choosing to be full participants. Open Work enabled participants to be as flexible and mobile as needed to operate “anytime, anywhere” in a diverse global company. The program directly contributed to achieving Sun’s vision of “The Network is the Computer,” now referred to as cloud computing. Annual surveys showed that Open Work was viewed as a primary employee benefit while allowing Sun to save or avoid nearly $400 million of costs from 2000 to 2007.
Open Work was widely seen as an innovative program that uniquely integrated technology, management policies and practices and real estate resources to support contemporary work. It was recognized through awards such as Corenet’s Global Innovation Award (2002) and the Alliance for Work Life Progress Innovative Excellence Award (2005).
Eric received his MBA from the University of California at Berkeley and his Master of Architecture degree from Syracuse University. He has been a speaker for the American Institute of Architects, Corenet, and the Environmental Design and Research Association, and has advised European Commission IT planners and the U.S. House Committee on Governmental Reform on how to support contemporary work. Eric has written for textbooks and has been frequently interviewed for articles about alternative work environments. He is an active charter member of the New Ways of Working Network.
jueves, 4 de noviembre de 2010
Ann Bamesberger
Ann Bamesberger is a Principal of Co3 Group, Ltd. an organization focused on creating infrastructures that support the increasingly global, dispersed, and mobile workforce by enabling client’s employees to work anywhere, anytime, on any device.
With a solid foundation in civil engineering, marketing, real estate, corporate services, and consulting, Ann’s entire career has prepared her for this role.
She was instrumental in the concept, design, and implementation of Sun’s innovative flexible office over 15 years ago, an early component of what has evolved to the Open Work program. She became Sun’s VP Open Work Services, and not only managed Sun’s internal program, but also developed a Consulting Practice for Sun’s customers. The Open Work Practice provided services to financial accounts, energy companies and other Silicon Valley companies.
Ann’s role with Open Work coupled her natural ability to conceptualize innovative solutions with her results?driven attitude and collaborative work style. She thrives on the opportunity to design creative solutions to complex problems and is intrigued by the challenge of figuring out a better way to work.
Recognized expert in her field, Ann testified in 2007 before the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Committee, and the District of Columbia as a panelist for the
hearing, ”Telework: Breaking New Ground?”
Prior to Sun, Ann held positions as corporate services manager (Silicon Graphics, HP); business manager, Network Products (HP); marketing program manager (HP); construction projects manager (HP); management consultant (Boston Consulting Group, Munich FRG) and independent engineering consultant.
Ann’s education includes an MBA from Stanford University School of Business, and an MS and BS in Civil Engineering with distinction from Stanford University School of Engineering. She received CoreNet’s 2002 Global Innovator’s Award, and Sun’s 2004 HR Leadership Award for innovation in workplace effectiveness strategies.
Ann is a regular guest lecturer at Stanford’s School of Engineering (Center for Work, Technology and Organization) and is frequently interviewed and quoted in books, journals, and articles on alternative workplace environments. She is fluent in German and conversant in French.
With a solid foundation in civil engineering, marketing, real estate, corporate services, and consulting, Ann’s entire career has prepared her for this role.
She was instrumental in the concept, design, and implementation of Sun’s innovative flexible office over 15 years ago, an early component of what has evolved to the Open Work program. She became Sun’s VP Open Work Services, and not only managed Sun’s internal program, but also developed a Consulting Practice for Sun’s customers. The Open Work Practice provided services to financial accounts, energy companies and other Silicon Valley companies.
Ann’s role with Open Work coupled her natural ability to conceptualize innovative solutions with her results?driven attitude and collaborative work style. She thrives on the opportunity to design creative solutions to complex problems and is intrigued by the challenge of figuring out a better way to work.
Recognized expert in her field, Ann testified in 2007 before the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Committee, and the District of Columbia as a panelist for the
hearing, ”Telework: Breaking New Ground?”
Prior to Sun, Ann held positions as corporate services manager (Silicon Graphics, HP); business manager, Network Products (HP); marketing program manager (HP); construction projects manager (HP); management consultant (Boston Consulting Group, Munich FRG) and independent engineering consultant.
Ann’s education includes an MBA from Stanford University School of Business, and an MS and BS in Civil Engineering with distinction from Stanford University School of Engineering. She received CoreNet’s 2002 Global Innovator’s Award, and Sun’s 2004 HR Leadership Award for innovation in workplace effectiveness strategies.
Ann is a regular guest lecturer at Stanford’s School of Engineering (Center for Work, Technology and Organization) and is frequently interviewed and quoted in books, journals, and articles on alternative workplace environments. She is fluent in German and conversant in French.
lunes, 1 de noviembre de 2010
PageRank for Mommybloggers 101
PageRank is an algorithm created by Larry Page of Google. It is a trademarked, highly guarded system that Page named after himself.
PageRank reflects our view of the importance of web pages by considering more than 500 million variables and 2 billion terms. Pages that we believe are important pages receive a higher PageRank and are more likely to appear at the top of the search results.
PageRank also considers the importance of each page that casts a vote, as votes from some pages are considered to have greater value, thus giving the linked page greater value. We have always taken a pragmatic approach to help improve search quality and create useful products, and our technology uses the collective intelligence of the web to determine a page's importance. Source
Google and other search engines use "crawlers" to travel through the internet. Crawlers are a software agent that systematically copies (index) all the content in every page of every website. They also have an operation called spidering that follows the outbound hyperlinks of each page, evaluates it and adds them to the destination's PageRank. The entire process is complicated. Google updates it regularly to keep it relevant to the changing internet landscape. If you have
Now let's apply this to your website. PageRank applies to blogs in several ways. Having a search engine optimized (SEO) site give your site a higher chance to be shown on the first page of a potential readers keyword search. For instance, do a search on Google for "the percentage of politicians that i think are honest is:" and a post I wrote in November 2007 is the third on the list. I'm first for "swing shift sucks" most days. Rankings like this keep my little blog with only a few dozen subscribers at PageRank 4.
This PageRank brings more unique visitors to my site. This benefits my site in two ways:
It makes my Google AdSense clicks pay higher. Ads clicked from visitors who come from direct links pay a small fraction of the fee paid when you have new visits from search engines.
It makes PR reps take notice of my site. PageRacnk and traffic stats are the two most commonly requested metrics from companies looking for blogs to advertise on.
While no method is foolproof, I have found several things to be much more important than others pertaining to blogs and PageRank. Blogs are a different animal than a business website.This list will help you cover all your bases. I refer mainly to self-hosted WordPress blogs for tools and plugins as it is the most common platform.
Own your domain. The plain truth is that search crawlers don't pay close attention to blogs in that end in blogspot.com or wordpress.com. If owning a self-hosted site is not in your budget right now, at least buy a domain through your current platform.
Sitemap: Giving the search engine bot a schematic of your site so it can index all of your posts.
If you are in WordPress, use the Google XML Sitemaps Plugin.
Link to sitemap.xml in the footer of your site.
Register your site on Google Webmaster Tools and Quancast.
Google Webmaster Tools puts your site on the crawler's automatic queue. It will scan for new posts, comments and links to index without the need for pings.
Quantcast is a public analytics site. Whenever you have a PR inquiry, they can look there for real time stats. You can also embed the charts into your media kit.
Use "pretty permalinks" for your posts. For WordPress, select Custom and input
%postname%/ this turns your title "Oh Happy Day" into /oh-happy-day
%post_id%/%postname%/ this adds the post's numerical identifier before, making it /9435/oh-happy-day/. I suggest this for people who are prone to using the same titles unwittingly or have more than 3 years of posts to rename.
While you're at it, name your photos with keywords. girl-with-a-daisy.jpg is going to get more attention than IMG_9094.jpg
Google updates PageRank scores every quarter. You can monitor your score at Google PageRank Checker. Don't despair at a low score. PageRank is difficult. Most Website Administrators consider a 4 as great, 5 is outstanding. Only about a dozen sites achieve a 10. I recommend using Website Grader by Hubspot. It will give you an in-depth analysis of your site. Don't sweat the score. Look at the suggestions. We all have room for improvement. This is the internet, we're all learning as we go.
PageRank reflects our view of the importance of web pages by considering more than 500 million variables and 2 billion terms. Pages that we believe are important pages receive a higher PageRank and are more likely to appear at the top of the search results.
PageRank also considers the importance of each page that casts a vote, as votes from some pages are considered to have greater value, thus giving the linked page greater value. We have always taken a pragmatic approach to help improve search quality and create useful products, and our technology uses the collective intelligence of the web to determine a page's importance. Source
Google and other search engines use "crawlers" to travel through the internet. Crawlers are a software agent that systematically copies (index) all the content in every page of every website. They also have an operation called spidering that follows the outbound hyperlinks of each page, evaluates it and adds them to the destination's PageRank. The entire process is complicated. Google updates it regularly to keep it relevant to the changing internet landscape. If you have
Now let's apply this to your website. PageRank applies to blogs in several ways. Having a search engine optimized (SEO) site give your site a higher chance to be shown on the first page of a potential readers keyword search. For instance, do a search on Google for "the percentage of politicians that i think are honest is:" and a post I wrote in November 2007 is the third on the list. I'm first for "swing shift sucks" most days. Rankings like this keep my little blog with only a few dozen subscribers at PageRank 4.
This PageRank brings more unique visitors to my site. This benefits my site in two ways:
It makes my Google AdSense clicks pay higher. Ads clicked from visitors who come from direct links pay a small fraction of the fee paid when you have new visits from search engines.
It makes PR reps take notice of my site. PageRacnk and traffic stats are the two most commonly requested metrics from companies looking for blogs to advertise on.
While no method is foolproof, I have found several things to be much more important than others pertaining to blogs and PageRank. Blogs are a different animal than a business website.This list will help you cover all your bases. I refer mainly to self-hosted WordPress blogs for tools and plugins as it is the most common platform.
Own your domain. The plain truth is that search crawlers don't pay close attention to blogs in that end in blogspot.com or wordpress.com. If owning a self-hosted site is not in your budget right now, at least buy a domain through your current platform.
Sitemap: Giving the search engine bot a schematic of your site so it can index all of your posts.
If you are in WordPress, use the Google XML Sitemaps Plugin.
Link to sitemap.xml in the footer of your site.
Register your site on Google Webmaster Tools and Quancast.
Google Webmaster Tools puts your site on the crawler's automatic queue. It will scan for new posts, comments and links to index without the need for pings.
Quantcast is a public analytics site. Whenever you have a PR inquiry, they can look there for real time stats. You can also embed the charts into your media kit.
Use "pretty permalinks" for your posts. For WordPress, select Custom and input
%postname%/ this turns your title "Oh Happy Day" into /oh-happy-day
%post_id%/%postname%/ this adds the post's numerical identifier before, making it /9435/oh-happy-day/. I suggest this for people who are prone to using the same titles unwittingly or have more than 3 years of posts to rename.
While you're at it, name your photos with keywords. girl-with-a-daisy.jpg is going to get more attention than IMG_9094.jpg
Google updates PageRank scores every quarter. You can monitor your score at Google PageRank Checker. Don't despair at a low score. PageRank is difficult. Most Website Administrators consider a 4 as great, 5 is outstanding. Only about a dozen sites achieve a 10. I recommend using Website Grader by Hubspot. It will give you an in-depth analysis of your site. Don't sweat the score. Look at the suggestions. We all have room for improvement. This is the internet, we're all learning as we go.
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