Three researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have been studying how to encourage more equal participation during face-to-face collaboration sessions. They have shared their approach and findings in an academic paper: “In this paper we describe a novel interactive table designed for supporting group collaboration. The […]
Steven shares his analysis of the difference between collaboration and social media: “Here’s the difference. Generally, Social Media is aimed externally, outside the walls of your business, (customers, vendors, competitors) and Collaboration is aimed internally, inside the walls of your business, (employees). Why is one more important than […]
Jordan at Traction Software reviews the recent Deloitte study and my User Adoption book, and comments: “When you focus on the “why,” people stop looking at the platform as a “blog” or “social” system but rather as a work-process system. They take it more seriously and part of […]
Nicholas writes about Google’s view on history and measuring value, and concludes with this gem: “Maybe the question we should be asking, not of Google but of ourselves, is what types of questions the Net is encouraging us to ask. Should human thought be gauged by its output […]
The World Wide Fund in the UK surveyed 158 large companies in the UK about what’s happening with business travel. The research found that: “ … 47 percent had cut business flights and 63 percent have in place or plan to enact a policy for reducing business flights. […]
Bert asks how to add face-to-face communication back into our increasingly digital interactions. He outlines six key benefits of doing so – such as efficiency and effectiveness benefits for collaboration – and then moves to a key rule: “As we have rapidly embraced and adopted all manners of […]
Writing for CMSWire, Oscar from Sweden advocates focusing on improving practices via collaboration technology: “The key question is not if people have adopted a certain technology, but rather how they are using it and how new and improved practices are being adopted. For an organization that seeks to […]
In a couple of days, NewsGator is hosting a webinar with Kraft Foods to talk about the idea that “social business is not just about technology.” In advance of the session, read more about Kraft’s approach via an interview between Rich Blank (from NewsGator) and Vinicius Da Costa […]
Chris talks about the founding and early days of Dropbox, and why has a clear rule about investing in people, not ideas (emphasis added): “Well, it turned out storage is a hard problem and having an MIT storage guy who builds a great product actually matters. I don’t […]
John asks if IT will slowly strangle corporate outposts: “While the home of most corporate parents (America) worries that IT may not be helping the business enough, the home of many subsidiaries (Ireland) worries that IT is a tool that will force the closure of corporate outposts …. […]
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