File this under this-is-the-coolest-thing-I’ve-read-today.
The Library of Congress and photosharing site Flickr today announced a partnership that will put photos from the LoC’s collection online in a social environment and users to interact with them. The Library is home to more than 14 million photographs and other visual materials, and to start they’ve selected about 1500 [...]
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James Robertson has some thoughts about collaboration - bringing up the point that it is first and foremost about people … or person-to-person interactions and dynamics.
Some of my favorite lil’ gems …
It make no sense to roll out collaboration tools to the whole organisation. Collaboration takes place between people, and can’t be [...]
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Posted in Miscellany, Net Generation, business models, collaboration, enterprise 2.0, facebook, informal learning, learning, presentation tools, presentations, social networks, stupid stupid companies, technology, web 2.0, web culture on November 17, 2007 | No Comments »
Slashdot: US Control of Internet Remains an Issue … my question: what is a truly good or compelling reason for this? I’ve not yet heard one - other than they just don’t like the U.S. having it. Gotta be a better reason than that.
(see also: Webpronews.com: U.S. Control of Internet Still A Concern)
Facebook’s Brilliant [...]
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Interesting information from a KPMG survey: Web 2.0 Tools Fostering Collaboration - and Risk.
Trying to bring participative web apps/platforms/tools into work (focusing on getting tasks done or managing a small project) is generally not difficult on an individual level. Most of the time that can be and is done ‘under the radar screen.’ The [...]
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Just read Michael Arrington’s post about Ning getting to 100,000 networks this weekend. This is cool, since Ning’s demise was spoken about back in January 2006 …
And … Marc Andreessen, founder of Ning, gives his own assessment of this milestone.
Foraging through comments can be fun and often helpful … Some of the comments got me [...]
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Hot diggity! another simple and straightforward explanation of Google Docs. These guys at CommonCraft simply rock!
Oh to send this to everyone I work with who still insist on emailing the design documents, storyboards, and such … ARRRRRRRRGH (by the way: Talk Like a Pirate Day is today!)
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Posted in collaboration, collaborative writing, enterprise 2.0, informal learning, knowledge transfer, presentations, productivity, social networks, technology, web 2.0, web culture, wiki on August 12, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Meet Charlie … an interesting Slideshare presentation that (IMHO) explains the concepts of this thing called enterprise 2.0 … extolling the use of RSS, wikis, blogs, social networking, web-based collaboration and project management, and podcasting, to name a few.
Sounds promising, huh? This is the office or work stream of the future, you think? Maybe so … [...]
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Marc Andreessen quotes from the book The Medici Effect in his post Why brainstorming is a bad idea. And apparently, this has been demonstrated to be so waaaaaaay back in 1958!
To their surprise, the researchers found that virtual groups, where people brainstormed individually, generated nearly twice as many ideas as the real groups.
And as [...]
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Irwin Lazar at Collaboration Loop has an article: Collaboration Is Hard, Let’s Go Shopping … where he opines about his experiences with organizations who try to deploy collaboration tools and platforms.
In my conversations with enterprises I’ve seen hodge-podge of tools, often brought into the enterprise by a member of a workgroup who then vainly [...]
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Change is uncomfortable, at least … and downright threatening to some (I know … big revelation here, huh?). I’ve encountered folks whose “fight or flight” response kicked in when confronted with some pretty major changes. The common characteristic of them all is their beginning sentences with the word “no.”
No, that’s not what I meant … [...]
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Here at the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies, Jay Cross offers his top ten favorite tools for learning.
I have to admit that I’d not heard of QuickTopic before.
My list would include Coventi, which I use much more than Google Docs & Spreadsheets. I dig Coventi’s collaboration capabilities much more.
My biggest challenge when working [...]
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Just saw this on InformationWeek’s site: Motorola’s IT Department Takes on Enterprise 2.0
At first the numbers are impressive in and of themselves - 70,000 users every day; 4,400 blogs; 4,200 wiki pages … then … (emphasis mine)
“It’s beyond the wisdom of the hive, it actually lets people see new relationships, to see maps of what [...]
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I discovered Coventi on or near mid-March this year and thought to give it a go.
The other day I found a blog entry at Solution Watch - “Writeboards on Steroids” … and I have to say that I’m siding with using Coventi more and more as my collaborative writing app of choice … more so [...]
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ARRRRRRRRRRGH! okay … got it out of my system … deep, healing breaths …
Here’s a conversation with someone about collaboration and the tools we love (or hate). The issue at hand for me is that I now have several documents that need to be shared among a group. It is very likely - nearly [...]
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Lots of links/sites and tools to explore from this article …
to research and bring together the very best in terms of online real-time collaboration tools which can be used to enhance, extend and amplify your communication reach when working at-a-distance.
Here is a first partial collection of such research presented in the form of a few [...]
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Cut to the chase … you must check it out: Collanos Software (first saw this featured on Collaboration Loop)
Did I say that you must check it out? …
I have been looking for some kind of collaboration tool or suite of tools for my client … especially to use in my current project with them. And [...]
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From Rick Nigol on his blog (Breakthrough eLearning) … Wikinomics and Learning
Smart organizations realize that knowledge and ideas within the organization are often compartmentalized and inaccessible to most. They are finding ways to expedite knowledge sharing within via collaborative online tools. And really smart organizations also realize that internal knowledge is finite, and are [...]
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I’ve not tried Zoho … altough I very well might need to in the new SUPER AWESOME project I’ve been assigned at work. (Just take a look at their blog sidebar to see the different types of products they have to offer!
But they’ve announced Zoho Meeting as their latest edition to their suite.
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In Part 1, I bemoaned the fact that my firm (and I suspect many organizations are quite similar) relies too much on huge platforms as a one-size-fits-all approach to collaboration and coordination. This is unwieldy and unworkable.
Such a big wonkin’ monolithic platform isn’t flexible or responsive to any project team’s particular needs … needs which [...]
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I will be checking this one out … it sounds really promising.
And check out their blog as well.
links:
https://www.coventi.com/main.aspx
Collaborative Document Writing
Conventi Blog
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