Rajesh says that smart people are reluctant to share because their expertise has become “obvious” to them and background thinking, hence they don’t realize that others could benefit from it. Gia shares another perspective in her May 2008 blog post, Why is it so hard to get smart […]
Dan ran some workshops in New Zealand recently to investigate whether email is killing collaboration: “There’s a lot of talk about alternatives to email. But if you look at people on their computers, most of the time they’re not using Web 2 or Enterprise 2. They’re using email. […]
Chris expressed surprise at Mike’s comment about not using videoconferencing for formal meetings: “Mike let this one fly as we talked about collaboration and how his company, with people scattered around the country, use videoconferencing: “We never use it at a meeting where there’s an agenda.” Stop. Rewind. […]
Gia shares some of the findings from IBM about how the inclusion of links to contributions in internal systems changed the dynamics in the use of expertise profiles: “Seekers are always searching for an expert in something. They love extensive profiling systems, because it enables them to locate […]
Conversation is about taking turns. I talk and you listen. You talk and I listen. If we’re in a conversation and both of us talk at the same time, our ability to hear what the other party is saying decreases rapidly, and we start shouting to make ourselves […]
One of the lead articles in New Zealand this week is about the allegation of abuse at a government department from the CEO to a staff member. The allegations have resulted in previous staff members saying the department has a “culture of bullying.” “The government department whose chief […]
In my Making Collaboration Work monthly newsletter for June, I wrote about three possible ways of seeing whether collaboration was taking place. Being Collaborative – How Can We Tell? How do we know if a group or team is being collaborative (or even an organization for that matter)? […]
At an education conference in 2003, Amy Soller and Alan Lesgold talked about using computational approaches for analyzing online knowledge sharing interaction between students. A prime motivator for the underlying research was to attempt to equalize the learning behaviors of virtual learners with face-to-face learners. At the end […]
Yesterday I pointed to the recent Gist Infographic about the new workstyle. If you haven’t seen it, I recommend taking a look. Today I was reviewing my notes for a client project, and saw again the following table from a white paper from The Conference Board in 2000, […]
The Australian part of Parsons Brinkerhoff has standardized on Acrobat X Professional for document collaboration among its staff members, especially for the sharing of CAD drawings and project documents: “Enterprise Group IT Consultant Rob Pek said the rollout of Acrobat X had helped overcome a major challenge in […]
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