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WorkFlowy for Teaching Music

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Paul Wood is a violin teacher who uses WorkFlowy in his day job. He has now started experimenting with WorkFlowy to keep track of lessons and feedback for his students, and he’s blogged about it.

This post is part of a series focusing on how different types of people use WorkFlowy. Do you have an interesting use for WorkFlowy? Blog about it, let us know, and we’ll share it.

Social enterprise nonsense

The basic truth is perfectly articulated in Euan Semple’s excellent book title: “Organisations don’t tweet, people do.” There’s a lot of guff and business-speak fluffing up sales pitches and justifying product costs. At the end of the day you’re mostly better off using common sense.

Unless you’re a sociopath most of us know how to behave and if you add in our innate knowledge, a dash of intelligence and a smattering of imagination, hey presto.

Most of the social media tips and techniques published by the social enterprise vendors is self-justifying guff to give nervy managers the impression there is method in the social madness. It uses reassuring language and methodical techniques while selling metrics, measurement and accountability tools. The buck can passed and responsibility apportioned with the click of a stats report. Old management training is resold as the shiny, new social.

If there is anything to teach about social enterprise it’s the oldest lesson in the business book. Look after your customers.

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery