November 27, 2006

Teaching communities of practice to fly

17:27 on Monday November 27, 2006 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

From David Snowden through Lilia Efimova: My own view is that communities can evolve, but cannot be designed top down. Of course you can stimulate and direct evolution. However a CoP "Roll out" plan always gets me worried. I think...



November 25, 2006

Collaboration on line starts to make sense

11:07 on Saturday November 25, 2006 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Ross's Power Law of Participation is brilliant, because it explains how valuable metadata can be fed into any collaboration tool. It can be combined with Janet Salmons Collaborative Taxonomy of e-Learning , which is more on the right-hand side of...



November 24, 2006

A new name is needed for KM

16:18 on Friday November 24, 2006 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

from Dave Snowden in "whence goeth KM?"Is KM dead? My view for about two years now is that it is on its last leg as a strategic movement (otherwise known as a fad) in management. We also have that infallible...



November 19, 2006

Personal vs. Business Blogs: Is this really black or white?

10:16 on Sunday November 19, 2006 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

in a recent post of Lilia where she writes about the personal vs. business dimensions of blogging, and attempts to position various blogs on a personal -> business scale on various dimensions. As she says: From what I've seen so...



November 10, 2006

Creating software like a movie.

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I have been arguing many times about the need for a new form of governance of Informations Systems whereby new tools and forms of collaboration could be introduced in the enterprise from the ground up, rather than from the...



November 08, 2006

A great Dilbert cartoon

18:30 on Wednesday November 8, 2006 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Using your Incompetence to Achieve Your Goals. So true. I feel both like Dilbert and, alas, like the pointy-haired boss too, though I have more often been in the first situation ;-)...



November 04, 2006

A most brilliant business model for communities

17:30 on Saturday November 4, 2006 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

I just bumped into Sermo's website, which at first sight looks like yet another community space for physicians. There is a slight difference though:On Sermo, there is no cost to physicians to participate. In fact, Sermo also enables physicians...



Social Networks, market segmentation in real time

17:03 on Saturday November 4, 2006 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

In a New York Times article dated October 31. called "computing 2016: What won't be possible?"But with the rise of the Internet, social networks and technology networks are becoming inextricably linked, so that behavior in social networks can be tracked...