In Tech Boom 2.0: Boom but no bubble?, I highlighted the collaboration centricity of new investments:
A new emphasis on social networking and connecting people, rather than e-commerce, which consumers did not trust in 2000.
Given the dismal failure of so many KM implementations - which were often poorly thought-out and brittle databases - a shift to […]
Does your organization communicate effectively? Drawing from the BBC’s report on an American police force decision to stop using 10-4 and 10-20 type codewords (I was surprised to hear these are incompatible across different counties), I draw a parallel of how wikis can generate the common linguistic ground needed for purposeful communication.
The BBC reported today […]
Great post by Business Two Zero: talking about Management Styles fundementally facilitative of emergence rather than imposing of process, and structure.
However, I was pleased that the first hit was for Kathy Sierra’s piece from earlier in the year. She highlights the emerging management style, influenced by web 2.0 thinking, is more community based, […]
It seems to me that there exists many different types of people doing “wiki consulting”. They differ by:
Background/goal:
Some are technologists, doing installs, writing plugins, etc.
Some are cultural anthropologists or statistians employed to provide insight on social interactions
Some are management looking to reduce the costs of running the enterprise
Some are HR types, looking to get better […]
Its been a few months since our last TorontoWikiTuesday event. As you can see,by averaging 12 people, we’ve never had tremendous turnouts.
Speaking with Seb Paquet last week I was stunned to hear that Montreal Wiki Night frequently has turnouts exceeding 50 people.
Its clear we need a new strategy. I suspect a pub venue (while mandatory […]
How many times have you emailed a colleague and found that they’ve side-stepped answering your question in their reply?
Say you ask several questions in your email but they just gloss over some parts in their reply. Bullet listing or numbering your points in an email is tiresome to write and is at the very […]