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  • Strategies for Real & Virtual Collaboration : Connecting the Thoughts

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    Gayle
    26 Jan 2012 | 6:39 pm
    Strategies for Real & Virtual Collaboration. Posted on | January 27, 2012 | No Comments. I've been taking long walks lately while I recuperate from pneumonia. Normally, I'd do something more vigorous, but walking seems to be about it for me

  • When You Want to Crawl in a Hole But Can’t

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    Kare Anderson
    25 Jan 2012 | 2:26 pm
    In “one fatal keystroke” Rose Zory, the Chief People Officer at Carat Media sent an “for top management only” email on the messaging managers should use when firing (oops, rightsizing) some employees. She sent that email to every single person in the company. Carat is Europe’s largest media group, by the way. It provides advertising and public relations services, expertise it badly needed at that point. Now comes the flood of advice (again!) about how to avoid such email embarrassments and what to do when they happen. What would you do?

  • Towards A More Participatory Culture: Enterprise Q&A (Part 1)

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    Mike Gotta
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:06 am
    In October of 2011, AIIM (the Association for Information & Imaging Management, a non-profit research, community and educational association), published a [...]

  • The value of collecting your thoughts in a private online journal

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    Oliver Marks
    24 Jan 2012 | 12:30 am
    In this era of multiple channels of communication, collecting your personal thoughts and ideas in one place is increasingly useful

  • The League of Exraordinary Coworking Spaces

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    davidc
    25 Jan 2012 | 4:04 pm
    I remember seeing the movie “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” with Sean Connery. I wonder who will star in the League of Extraordinary Coworking spaces?  The Invisible Man, to represent virtual space (he also was in the other movie), the Riddler for space of the future?  TwoFace for spaces that can quickly convert to something else? Well you get the idea. read more
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  • When You Want to Crawl in a Hole But Can’t

    Kare Anderson
    25 Jan 2012 | 2:26 pm
    In “one fatal keystroke” Rose Zory, the Chief People Officer at Carat Media sent an “for top management only” email on the messaging managers should use when firing (oops, rightsizing) some employees. She sent that email to every single person in the company. Carat is Europe’s largest media group, by the way. It provides advertising and public relations services, expertise it badly needed at that point. Now comes the flood of advice (again!) about how to avoid such email embarrassments and what to do when they happen. What would you do?

  • Your Authentic Voice Draws Others Closer

    Kare Anderson
    22 Jan 2012 | 2:25 pm
    ”I had a doorbell moment this week,” Patricia told Tracy. Both have sons serving in the same Marine unit in Iraq. Patricia is describing the fear that grabs her the moment her doorbell rings unexpectedly, thinking that the officer on the other side has come to tell her that her son is dead. Tracy understands. Hint One: Through shared experience, expressed aloud, we adopt “shorthand” expressions and feel understood, closer and often even comforted. When Tracy’s son, Derrick was deployed, she knew that those who would most understand her feelings were other mothers in the same…

  • Craft an Attention-Grabbing Message

    Kare Anderson
    14 Jan 2012 | 11:59 am
    I am gratified by the 249 comments to this post I wrote for Harvard Business Review and seek your specific tips on quotability, the first step to connecting in this increasingly complex, information-flooded, and connected world: You can feel the tension in the compressed smiles, quick nods and pointed questions at the annual Morgan Stanley Global Healthcare conference. Schedules are packed as the high-stakes finance crowd gathers to hear 20-minute rapid-fire talks by CEOs of start-ups and public companies who seek funding or favorable stock analysts’ reports. Presenters speak fast,…

  • Since Smart People Sometimes Act Stupid….

    Kare Anderson
    8 Jan 2012 | 11:03 am
    … you may want to recognize ways to avoid such self- sabotage — not that you would need such advice, of course, yet your intelligent friends might.  According to the 15 experts cited by Yale professor, Robert J. Steinberg, Why Smart PeopleCan Be So Stupid, high I.Q. people are more likely to fall into faulty thinking, yet other experts think that some of their conclusions are faulty. ”Stupid,” for example is used in the book to mean “wrong” and “smart” refers to intelligence – of a certain sort. President Clinton, for example, is called stupid because he got caught in…

  • Sensory Cues Can Bring Others Closer

    Kare Anderson
    2 Jan 2012 | 1:24 pm
    Give customers the bragging rights that spur them to tell others about their experience at your place or event.  I wondered. Was it the butterscotch-colored walls, light coconut scent wafting through the door as I opened it or the cushy island of deep blue carpet under my feet as I stepped into the boutique hotel? I don’t know yet I instinctively sighed with relief. And that was before I saw the the smiling doorman walking towards me, saying, “We’re glad that you’re safely out of that storm. Let me help you with your coat, if you like, and your bag.” The lobby was light with…
 
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  • The value of collecting your thoughts in a private online journal

    Oliver Marks
    24 Jan 2012 | 12:30 am
    In this era of multiple channels of communication, collecting your personal thoughts and ideas in one place is increasingly useful

  • Don't put your neck on the line...

    Oliver Marks
    18 Jan 2012 | 10:02 pm
    Investing in long lasting, good quality ergonomic work furniture costs about the same as a new computer, but isn’t as seductive as a new Apple laptop despite many great design attributes. (…I bought an expensive new office chair and am justifying it to myself!)

  • Consistent standards for defining 'social business'

    Oliver Marks
    13 Jan 2012 | 1:40 pm
    The W3C are getting more involved with defining standards around ’social business’ - this is a very good thing IMO

  • Blackberry's irresponsible social advertising

    Oliver Marks
    5 Jan 2012 | 11:34 pm
    A startlingly unhelpful TV commercial manages to both undermine Blackberry’s enterprise credibility while apparently encouraging personal activities on company time

  • The information diet

    Oliver Marks
    3 Jan 2012 | 9:09 am
    Clay Johnson makes a case for conscious information consumption in his new book, drawing analogies with our food habits and options. We are in danger of being drowned in information; strategies for finding the value amongst all the crud have never been more important
 
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    Collaborative Strategies

  • The League of Exraordinary Coworking Spaces

    davidc
    25 Jan 2012 | 4:04 pm
    I remember seeing the movie “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” with Sean Connery. I wonder who will star in the League of Extraordinary Coworking spaces?  The Invisible Man, to represent virtual space (he also was in the other movie), the Riddler for space of the future?  TwoFace for spaces that can quickly convert to something else? Well you get the idea. read more

  • Prediction 7 for Collaboration in 2012

    davidc
    4 Jan 2012 | 2:03 pm
    7-  The Consumerization of Project/task Management: Consumerization of IT has been happening over the last few years, and even though this has had a big effect on CIO’s in the enterprise it also has had just as much effect on small businesses (SMB).  I look at a large enterprise as a collection of relationships, some of those relationships are to achieve a goal that is beneficial to the overall organization.  Like working on a new product project, it is a small team working on the project, but once done, the sale of the new product will benefit the whol read more

  • Prediction 6 for Collaboration in 2012

    davidc
    3 Jan 2012 | 3:52 pm
    6- BYOD: The Changing Nature or Video Conferencing: It was not so long ago that we were looking at high-end video conferencing (called Teleconferencing) technologies that cost $250K per room ( and you need at least two rooms). But over the last 3 years videoconferencing has started to change. VideoConferenicng has always had three main barriers: read more

  • Prediction 5 for Collaboration in 2012

    davidc
    29 Dec 2011 | 10:22 am
    5-  Reinventing the collaborative supply chain: Supply chain is one of the most siloed processes in the enterprise. It is one of the 6 critical processes I have talked about in the past that has “collaborative leverage.” In a process where collaboration meant leaving a spreadsheet for someone else to read, we are starting to see the migration of collaboration tools into this process. read more

  • Prediction 4 for Collaboration in 2012

    davidc
    27 Dec 2011 | 5:57 pm
    4-  The nature of work is changing:  I know I am not the first to talk about this or even predict it. But with the level of complexity in the workplace and the continually rising torrent of information, it is inevitable that something must give way, and the most likely thing is the way we work. read more
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  • Why Haven’t You Bought Your Domain Name Yet?

    Alexandra Levit
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:13 am
    Somewhere, there is a major disconnect. On Mashable, Erica Swallow recently wrote a post on creating a personal website that received over 3500 tweets.  It was incredible that so many people were interested in this content and shared it with their networks. On the other side of the spectrum, there’s the seminar of highly-driven professionals I facilitated last week.  When I asked how many people had a personal website, two out of 100 raised their hands. Everyone Needs a Website I suppose there is a perception that if you don’t have your own business, you don’t need a website.  This…

  • Harvey Mackay on What it Takes to Win (Pt 1)

    Anita Bruzzese
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:02 am
    Harvey Mackay is the author of five bestselling business books, including “Swim With the Sharks Without Being Eaten” and “Beware the Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt,” both named to the top 15 most inspirational business books of all time by The New York Times. Besides selling more than 10 million books worldwide, Mackay is a nationally syndicated columnist for United Features Syndicate and is a top Toastmaster’s International Speaker. He is chairman of the MackayMitchell Envelope Co., a $100 million company he founded at age 26. Recently he spoke with me about making a business…

  • Change Leadership 101: Design Solutions for the End User

    Eric Hansen
    26 Jan 2012 | 8:33 am
    Imagine you have recently purchased a new solution that is going to revolutionize the way your company does business. After nearly three months of evaluating solutions, the solution you have decided on is the most high tech, has all the best features, and is guaranteed to meet the needs of your business. Upon implementation, you are surprised at the push-back you receive from the team and some of the negative feedback you receive about the solution. What seemed like a perfect fit and something so easy to use, may now take two or three months of training and managing change for the team…

  • 3 Universal Traits of Successful Change Agents

    Richard Crum
    25 Jan 2012 | 10:21 am
    “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough, we must do.” – Leonardo da da Vinci (1452-1519); At TwinSuns, a QuickBase Solution Provider, we’ve been fortunate over the years to work with some remarkable clients – companies that are dynamic and forward-thinking. And within those companies, we’ve been privileged to team up with the folks who are looking to make a positive impact within their organizations – we sometimes call them change agents.  Insofar as our business is developing QuickBase solutions…

  • Mergers, Acquisitions, and Your Career

    Eva Rykr
    24 Jan 2012 | 8:24 am
    A corporate restructuring is often a stressful time. Many uncertainties exist for an undetermined period of time. Will you be demoted or laid off? Who is going to be your boss? Will the projects you are working on be cut? This can be nerve-wracking. How things work out is usually beyond your control but you do have a choice in how you respond to the situation.  A few tips for success: Prepare Thoroughly Ambiguity and uncertainty is a big contributor to much of stress related to change. Increase your understanding of the situation and gather as much information as you can to ease your mind.
 
 
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  • SpeedGeeking: Avoiding the seven deadly sins of IBM Connections and how to plot the route to Social salvation!

    Stuart McIntyre
    25 Jan 2012 | 4:27 am
    For those that missed it, here's my 5 minute presentation from the amazing SpeedGeeking event at Lotusphere 2012: Avoiding the seven deadly sins of IBM Connections and how to plot the route to Social salvation! Enjoy!

  • Liveblogging the Lotusphere 2012 OGS

    Stuart McIntyre
    16 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am
    Along with Paul Mooney, Matt White and co, I am live-blogging the OGS below: Lotusphere OGS 2012 Live feed: Watch live streaming video from ibmsoftware at livestream.com

  • Don’t ever call Lotusphere a ’jolly’!

    Stuart McIntyre
    14 Jan 2012 | 2:49 am
    Here's a snapshot of my schedule for this week. Admittedly some of the clashing appointments in Orange are where there are more than one session that I'd like to go to in that slot.  However, there is no doubt that this is going to be one seriously intensive week!

  • In 60 seconds...

    Stuart McIntyre
    3 Jan 2012 | 2:45 am
    Happy New Year all! Liking these infographics shared by Business Insider during the holiday: and: Some staggering numbers in there - the one that leaps at me is over 50 Wordpress downloads per minute. Makes you realise just how large the consumer and small business content creation community is compared with the enterprise space.

  • Smarter Knowledge Sharing: Quantitative research into the perceived usefulness of Lotus Live as knowledge sharing system by Dutch healthcare professionals

    Stuart McIntyre
    22 Dec 2011 | 3:52 am
    Well this is a find!Smarter Knowledge Sharing - Quantitative research into the perceived usefulness of Lotus Live as knowledge sharing system by Dutch healthcare professionals Master Thesis Strategic Management Tilburg University December 12, 2011 Student Sjoerd Bouma (962256) S.Bouma@uvt.nl An organization’s ability to learn and share knowledge has emerged as a key factor influencing organizational performance (Argote, McEvily, & Reagans, 2003; Kane & Alavi, 2007). IBM can provide an integrated cloud solution,  Lotus Live, to support online knowledge sharing and learning.
 
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    Collaborative Journeys

  • Are you ready for the unexpected?

    Ben Ziegler
    23 Jan 2012 | 3:32 pm
    How do you respond when someone throws a wrench into your day? Here’s how one classical musician responded, after a Nokia ring tone went off in the middle of his performance… (thanks to my local fiddler/composer friend, Paul Gitlitz, for bringing this to my attention). (If the video not displaying, click here) I found this [...]

  • U Connect: The Art of Making Connections to Resolve Disputes

    Ben Ziegler
    17 Jan 2012 | 4:51 pm
    I published my 2nd e-book this week, on Amazon.  It’s titled: U Connect: The Art of Making Connections to Resolve Disputes.  It’s a consolidation of some my observations, along with insights I’ve culled from others, around “making connections”. Here’s the Table of Contents and here’s the Introduction section: “Disputes happen. How do we respond? One [...]

  • The Mediation ‘Sweet Spot’

    Ben Ziegler
    6 Jan 2012 | 10:53 pm
    A mediation is like a good holiday.   Here’s why… —————————————————————- A weekend vacation trip does not give enough time to find the holiday ‘sweet spot’. Bruce Kirkby wrote a great article in last weekend’s Globe & Mail about the holiday ‘sweet spot’.  As a veteran outdoors trip guide, he knows all about the magic and [...]

  • 2011 Favourites and Best Wishes for 2012

    Ben Ziegler
    30 Dec 2011 | 11:40 pm
    Happy New Year! Thank you for giving me, and this blog, your attention over the last year.  I’ve enjoyed connecting with you, many of you personally, and look forward to what new beginnings, and continuing adventures, 2012 offers us. Here are  the most visited blog posts on Collaborative Journeys in 2011: Strategies to reduce the [...]

  • Who Are You?

    Ben Ziegler
    23 Dec 2011 | 11:28 am
    Last night, I was out caroling in my neighbourhood.  It was great fun. First we broke bread, i.e. sweets, and hot, spiced apple cider, at the organizer’s house.   Someone brought Christmas carol song sheets. We headed out, about 20 of us, young and old. We worked the neighbourhood, looking for houses with lights on, the [...]
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  • Yahoo! and using HTML5 and Javascript to Create Native Mobile Apps

    Michael Porter
    26 Jan 2012 | 5:28 pm
    We’ve written a number of times about the conundrum between having to write a native mobile app in iOS, Android, Blackberry, or Windows and just create a mobile ready web app.  No one wants to create 5 codes streams. It’s too much work.  Anyway, via slashdot comes a very interesting article about Yahoo! placing their bets on web native technologies like HTML5 and JavaScript to create apps that run anywhere. For those of you surprised that it’s Yahoo! and not other more “in” vendors, remember that this same company created Hadoop, the Big Data tool taking the…

  • Lotusphere Jump Start – The Social Busines Toolkit

    Glenn Kline
    22 Jan 2012 | 1:57 pm
    Empowering the Exceptional Web Experience with the IBM Social Business Toolkit Lotusphere was last week and I had an opportunity to attend one of the jumpstart sessions on 1/15/2012 titled “Empowering the Exceptional Web Experience with the IBM Social Business Toolkit” with Mike Taylor and Paul Bastide, software engineers from IBM.Social Business Toolkit is available on Lotus Greenhouse.  Here are some of the highlights. What is the Social Business Toolkit? Set of tools and techniques to make applications social A set of APIs and services used to: Add social capabilities to…

  • What’s new in IBM Connections

    Mark Polly
    18 Jan 2012 | 4:12 pm
      What’s coming in IBM Connections?  At Lotusphere 2012 IBM laid its plans for Connections in a general session. Of course, they had a disclaimer that the product is still under development, so these features may change by the time the final product is released. The theme for the new version include: Social platform evolution Need to streamline work Anytime, anywhere access Prioritize what’s important Consistent integrated experience Enhanced communities for teams Share across group of people Support different groups Share and manage across teams Business to consumer New…

  • Mobile Development Best Practices

    Glenn Kline
    18 Jan 2012 | 4:02 pm
    From Desktops to Mobile and Smart Phones – Lessons Learned This session at Lotusphere 2012 was presented by Usman Memonand focused on lessons learned and best practices many organizations face today when moving to mobile platforms.  Some of the key lessons learned are highlighted here. Development Approaches and Considerations Users are attempting to access your sites with mobile devices whether you have a mobile site or not There are trade-offs: Richness of your mobile presence increases total cost of ownership Native applications will be richest but highest cost Hybrid mobile…

  • WebSphere Portal 7 Theme Update

    Mark Polly
    18 Jan 2012 | 12:16 pm
      I’m at Lotusphere 2012 and attending a session on Portal themes.  It occurs to me that we’ve had a new and ‘better’ theme in almost every version or fix pack. Portal 7.0.2 continues that pattern. IBM continues to try to tweak the theme to make them faster and better. Now we have a Theme Optimization Framework to work with.  This new framework has been extremely modularized using Modules, Profiles, Capabilities, and Contributions.  These concepts allow you deliver a rich, responsive theme.  to the page such as JavaScript or CSS. A module can be reused across…
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  • Community Managers, Unite!

    23 Jan 2012 | 9:22 am
     Happy Community Manager Appreciation Day (#CMAD)!  As I sat down to write a blog post dedicated to celebrating community managers - this fantastic, rewarding and often misunderstood profession, I realized that there are few professions (and professionals) as impassioned as a Community Manager.  Left-brain, right-brain, artist, scientist, pioneer, organizational change agent - the job is all that, and more.  So, in lieu of trying to write about my appreciative thoughts today, I have gathered a few of my favorite blog posts about being a Community Manager from my blog…

  • The Social Mind: A New Research Project

    13 Jan 2012 | 7:32 am
    Interrelationships between individuals, organizations, thought leaders and influencers are evolving in new and previously unforeseen ways thanks to the advent of social media networks. This paradigm shift represents a major communications innovation in all markets, and is radically changing the way people and organizations engage and behave online. In order to explore this topic, and give back to the industry,  Don Bulmer and Peter Auditore and I are conducting a new study as Fellows of the Society of NewCommunications Research (SNCR) .    The Social Mind research project is…

  • Online Community Decision: Public, Private or Hybrid?

    11 Jan 2012 | 8:21 am
    Your organization has decided to develop an online community to serve your customers. Congratulations! This is an important step towards building a social business. As the team gathers in the conference room with whiteboards, markers and lots of coffee, you start by talking about other online community examples the organization might want to emulate, or those that have caught your fancy. Features, content, look and feel are usually a major part of this discussion. But chances are you haven’t considered a fundamental but critical question: will the online community be public, gated or a…

  • The 20 Minute Social Media Professional

    6 Dec 2011 | 8:20 am
    “I don’t have time to participate in social media” is a common cry heard within enterprise. The concern is that social media has a steep learning curve and is a time vacuum preventing more essential work from getting done. In other circles where social media is more widely used, those who haven't started are sometimes in a pickle.  They don't know where to start and won't ask for help, worried about exposing that they haven't developed this professional skill yet.  Fear not...while we are led to believe that everyone and their uncle is using social media with great skill and…

  • Social Snacking Feeds Online Community

    30 Nov 2011 | 7:02 am
    Social snacks are digital tidbits of information, ideas and personal presence which offer a quick taste of an online community's content and personality. An effective way to build awareness of a community, these virtual treats get distributed via the burgeoning ecosystem of online tools that support millions of short, sharing interactions daily. Sometimes an online community can get overly focused on internal processes such as moderation, content development, member acquisition and engagement, and lose sight of the vast virtual world outside their domain name boundaries. Looking outward and…
 
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  • A Five Step Roadmap to Internal Social Media

    Elizabeth
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:41 am
    Without a doubt, the adoption of using social technologies inside the organization is rampant. So many companies are hearing the loud beat of the “employee engagement” drum, but the task of effectively assessing your needs, implementing technologies correctly, and measuring for success and sustainability is a daunting project. So, it’s okay to slow down, take a deep breath and work from a well-crafted roadmap. Few things make employees more cynical than a social media platform that no one uses. And if your company quickly deployed a ["insert social tool here"] only to find…

  • Employees Say The Power of Internal Social Media is Real — Will You Listen?

    Elizabeth
    25 Jan 2012 | 9:41 am
    With 61% of employees saying that internal social media helps them to better collaborate and another 60% saying internal social media demonstrates innovation… it’s becoming much more evident that Internal Social Media (ISM) can — and does — impact the bottom line. To better understand the value of social media in the workplace, APCO Worldwide and Gagen MacDonald recently surveyed 1,000 U.S. employees, and built a model that quantifies the factors that characterize effective programs and the impact on core business drivers. Some significant findings include: 58% of…

  • #Infographic: 100 Best Companies Aren’t Just Good Places to Work, They’re Engines of Employment

    Elizabeth
    25 Jan 2012 | 9:21 am
    The best companies employ about 1.6 million people, or 1.1% of the U.S. workforce. They’re not just good places to work — they’re engines of employment. Here’s a look at the list by size of employer and by jobs added (or lost) last year. This is an excellent companion to CNN Money’s 100 Best Companies to Work For. Of note: Microsoft lost the most employees (over 2K) and Google added the most (7K).

  • Who’s Who in Social HR Technology

    Elizabeth
    24 Jan 2012 | 6:43 pm
    Welcome to our Who’s Who list of companies who specialize in Social HR technology. Are you in HR technology and wondering what options you have in software vendors? Or are you wondering what technology companies are transforming HR into more social functions? Then look no further. The list below has been collected from a couple of online sources as well as from our own research. The companies are listed in alphabetical order, but sortable by product solution. If you feel a company has been listed incorrectly or if you are a representative of the company and wish to modify your…

  • #Infographic: Is Your Company Ready for BYOD?

    Elizabeth
    24 Jan 2012 | 12:20 pm
    If you’re not… don’t feel bad. You’re in good company. This infographic, by ClickSoftware, examines mobile workforce management, including the expectations of employees (and BYOD – Bring Your Own Device), how to integrate mobile devices into your organization, and the benefits that you will likely see from increased mobility. 66% of employees want IT to let them use any device they choose 45% of IT workers aren’t prepared to support a borderless mobile workforce 61% of companies that let employees use personal mobile devices have higher employee…
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  • The privacy/security paradox

    Lorie Vela
    4 Jan 2012 | 3:15 am
    The statistics prove that most internet users are concerned about security and privacy, but what are they doing to protect their data and information? Almost 90% do nothing. Do they simply assume the risks as a side-effect? Are they really aware? Do they think that it always happens to someone else? Why do statistics say the opposite to users actually do? I believe there is a current paradox in the way we communicate, exchange and collaborate on the internet. Let’s see the facts: There is a need to stay connected, stay in touch, share, show, work, study, etc, we can’t simply avoid…

  • Kloosion: A simple, intuitive and private collaboration tool

    Lorie Vela
    28 Nov 2011 | 8:17 am
    If you have been following this blog for some time, you might have realized that lately I haven’t been able to write as often as I had previously been doing. I’m so happy to share with you the reason why I haven’t had as much time: You already know that I work at a startup and couldn’t tell you much more since we were at the beginning of the project and we had many things to decide and work on, but today I can tell you more. UPDATE: CLICK HERE IF YOU WANT TO REGISTER So first things first: allow me to introduce Kloosion, an amazing group of people with great ideas and…

  • Email issues: can we use it as a collaborative tool?

    Lorie Vela
    7 Nov 2011 | 4:19 am
    Not everyone uses collaborative tools or Social Networks to communicate and collaborate, but who doesn’t have an email? First thing all of us do in the morning when we sit at our tables and turn our computers on is to check email, the number one tool for communication; but is it a valid tool for collaboration?  We certainly can’t work without email anymore no matter how many problems we have with it or how much time we have to spend checking, responding, organizing, etc.  Most experts agree on the fact that GMAIL is the best email client especially if you intend to collaborate…

  • Why It Is So Gosh Damn Hard to Tell the Truth about Collaboration: guest post by Roan Yong

    Lorie Vela
    3 Oct 2011 | 3:38 am
    I’m very pleased today to publish  a guest post by Roan Yong (@roanyong), author of Social Collaboration e-book, an expert on intranet, and a thought leader on exploiting self-interest to enable bottom-up collaboration, innovation, and community-building. He gives free talk on collaboration to the non-profits and public agencies. It’s a very polemic issue that invite us to reflect and rethink. You might, or might not, agree with this argument, (just like me), but you will surely find a different prespective that we all need to consider. Thank you for your contribution Roan. Why…

  • Freelancers: how to start a Social Media Marketing Strategy

    Lorie Vela
    26 Sep 2011 | 6:32 am
    No need to say anything about how Web 2.0 is reinventing the way we connect, work and collaborate, but how are small business, freelancers and independent workers supposed to reinvent their business? We are in the middle of  a worldwide-global crisis and the consequential financial issues for families and enterprises, a context that doesn’t invite too much to invest, to test and to risks, but Social Media Marketing seems to be a competitive advantage that freelancers and SMB should take into account. How to start Social Media is not just about Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, it’s…
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  • Will Tely Labs Kill Telepresence

    ramrod
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:37 pm
    Will Tely Labs Kill Telepresense Vendors Walter Mossberg’s Wall Street Journal review of Tely Labs’, Skype based video conferencing device (http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,personal_technology,00.html) may very well signal the demise of high priced video conferencing offerings from vendors such as Polycom, Vidyo, and Cisco. The reality is that a Skype connection, Tely’s device ($249) and a 60″ high def TV ($1,200) is all you need to connect two locations and create your own high quality telepresense experience. Once Tely decides to formally go after the enterprise…

  • Chairing Productive Virtual Meetings

    ramrod
    6 Dec 2011 | 2:02 pm
    Virtual collaboration via online video conferencing is becoming the de facto standard in running enterprise projects and teams. As the project manager, team leader, or meeting chairperson, the keys to your success are in ensuring all participants consistently experience a rewarding and productive virtual meeting. Use the following six step guide to ensure your virtual team is productive. Manage Expectations. Create a highly reliable virtual environment that your team can count on for each and every meeting. Let each participant know that it is his/her responsibility is to ensure they are…

  • Top Enterprise Video Conferencing Services

    ramrod
    15 Aug 2011 | 6:06 pm
    I’ve been experimenting with a number of SAAS enterprise video conferencing services and have compiled the list below. These firms seem to be focusing on providing business class video conferencing/collaboration services. All the services are quite different in features, performance, ease-of-use, capabilities, and user interfaces. Some items to consider when making the right choice for your organization are: bandwidth requirements per user, frame rates, High Definition (HD) support, and ease of use. Also pay attention to whether you need both Apple and PC connectivity. One should also…

  • Test Your Video Chat Set-up

    ramrod
    10 Aug 2011 | 2:43 pm
    I just installed an HP High Definition camera on my Intel i5 laptop.  To test your desk top video set-up via a video collaboration call using my oovoo.com service just click here.  

  • Running a Virtual Company

    ramrod
    16 Jun 2011 | 6:34 pm
    The last company I worked for had staff in four cities.  It was a tech company and everyone worked odd hours.  Getting together in the same room was impossible.  At first our weekly "all hands on deck" staff meetings were completely chaotic.  Conducting an audio conference with 10 attendees and five presenters was just an awful experience.  We then  tried adding video conferencing to the mix, and much to my surprise, the meetings actually started working.  But we still had issues wit the number of moving parts.  Keeping track of the agenda,…
 
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  • Stand up for Freedom! #stopSOPA

    18 Jan 2012 | 6:44 am
        Today, GOV2U joins Wikipedia, the Reddit community and a myriad of other websites and companies to defend the free internet from the bill which enables the government and corporations to censor the net, in the name of protecting "creativity". The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites-- they just have to convince a judge that the site is "dedicated to copyright infringement." 

  • The Changing Role of Government

    12 Jan 2012 | 5:52 am
        (r)Evolution. The role of government has evolved over time as citizen needs have changed. In Governing’s November 2011 edition (p 20), there was an article entitled “Full-Service Government Comes to an End,” by Paul W. Taylor. The article focused on the many requests that come through for government employees to resolve. In particular, he noted that in Longmont, CO, “an internal analysis showed that up to 38% of the police departments calls for service did not need a uniformed officer – they needed a neighbor.” This is only one example, but it raises a…

  • U@MARENOSTRUM – Collaboration on water-management in the Mediterranean

    23 Dec 2011 | 4:21 am
      Newly Emergent Collaborative Governance Practices. Online Collaboration is increasingly being used to address complex resource and ecosystem management issues, and for strategic planning and development. In the context of challenges to traditional government practices, we are seeing generation of a variety of new practices that are based on collaboration, deliberation, and dialogue. In a previous post we discussed Gov2u's citizen collaboration platform for administrating the river-basin system of the Catalan region. ACAPARTICIPACIO is a remarkable initiative which demonstrate how…

  • Five Challenges Accounting for the Emergence of Collaborative Models

    23 Dec 2011 | 3:01 am
       Demands for Collaboration. Yesterday, we offered a contrast between the traditional deliberative and the emerging collaborative models of governance, with 10 ways to effectively move towards more collaboration. Collaboration literally means to co-labor, to work jointly with others. It includes “cooperating with an agency or instrumentality with which one is not immediately connected”. This emerging governance model is increasingly being used to address complex resource and ecosystem management issues, and for strategic planning and development.

  • Collaborative government: everyone can be the insider!

    22 Dec 2011 | 4:18 am
    Deliberative Versus Collaborative Public participation in government has traditionally been limited to deliberation, but Web 2.0 technology has created significant opportunities for collaboration and with the right push from top-level officials can lead to great innovation! What are the main differences between deliberative and collaborative governance - with 10 steps to move towards more Collaboration.
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  • Community: the key to living your own story

    lori
    22 Jan 2012 | 12:11 pm
    Daniel and I spent this past week in Texas visiting Daniel’s parents. The trip was a delight. They’ve retired to a quiet farm and have, I’m certain, the world’s goofiest dog. Here’s Mac with the toy alligator Daniel and I bought him… The weather was sunny and warm almost the entire time. We ate. A lot. Ribs. Cowboy Beans. Chicken Fried Steak. Potato salad. Meatloaf. Open-face Pot Roast Sandwiches. Chorizo Spinach Salad. We found a place that sold fried pies, and which I’m pretty sure is where the expression “OMG!” came into existence. We also went to a bookstore, a hardware…

  • Collective Self joins SOPA/PIPA internet strike today

    lori
    18 Jan 2012 | 4:32 pm
    I’m joining the SOPA and PIPA internet strike today. Sadly, the Collective Self site has a new and too-complicated-for-me theme, and after hours of failing, its time to admit that I’m not technologically savvy enough to get the official “on strike” banner across the top of this site. Grrr! Anyway, I can do this much. Please consider going to one or more of these sites and learning more about these two bills up for consideration by the U.S. Congress. These sites make it really easy to learn about these bills, to send a letter to a Congressperson if you’re so…

  • What is community?

    lori
    9 Jan 2012 | 11:38 pm
    I’ve been giving these questions my attention for 6 months now: What is community? How do we create community? How do I know community when I see it? Especially when I’m with people who think, look, and act nothing like me/my groups? I didn’t go looking for these questions. They found me somehow. Still not entirely certain why I’m so determined to have these conversations although I do know why I love them. These are questions that it’s impossible to be an individual expert at. Woo hoo! My favorite kind! Here’s what you’ve taught me so far. Community is: Showing up for someone…

  • Goodbye too-easy TV!

    lori
    3 Jan 2012 | 4:38 pm
    Today Daniel and I cancelled our satellite TV package. We noticed this fall that: When we’re tired after work, we often plop down onto the couch and mindlessly watch TV for no other reason than that it’s the easiest thing to do. Sometimes for hours. We don’t even like the programming on about 190 of the 200 channels, and we spend a ridiculous amount of time flipping around for something better to watch. Flipping through all the crap TV makes me feel worse about human kind, and myself, not better. The satellite makes mindless couch plopping/TV watching far too easy. During these cold…

  • Collective Self’s 2011 Top 5 Top 5s

    lori
    30 Dec 2011 | 6:20 pm
    I happened across another blogger yesterday who was publishing his top 5 blog posts from 2011. That seemed like an opportunity to reflect and learn, so I decided to do the same. As I did the research, I found five different top 5s that matter to me. So here they are. What a gift this year has been! Holiday elves (aka, mom and dad) Lori’s Top 5 These are my favorite. The first four are my favorite because of what I learned in the group discussions. I suggest skipping past the blog post itself and just reading the discussion that follows it. Lots of “Ah ha!” and…
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