To help corporations create knowledge more consciously, the author of Managing Flow draws on Western and Eastern philosophic traditions.
Read the full article at www.strategy-business.com
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Sunday, March 8th, 2009
Discussing measures and concepts for “collaborative performance”
Olivier Verbeke
Björn is asking what the Return on Investment of Collaboration is and writes up some neat (and programmatic) questions to systematize the discussion.
Like him I notice that Enterprise 2.0 discussions fall back to the topic of ROI quite often, seen this many times before and again at the Cologne Enterprise 2.0 FORUM. So trying and exploring the subline of the upcoming Enterprise 2.0 SUMMIT (”Improving Collaborative Performance”) with these questions is a good idea. I won’t dive into all of them now, let’s look at number one first and take a first stab at why it’s collaborative performance we’re after.
Read the full article at www.frogpond.de
Thursday, March 5th, 2009
Knowledge workers behind times with collaboration
Olivier Verbeke
Technologies that are over a decade old are hampering the way that knowledge workers collaborate but there is still a long way to go before firms are brought up to speed with 21st century IT…
Read the full article at www.knowledgeboard.com
Monday, March 2nd, 2009
MicroPlaza Is a Link-Catcher For Twitter (100 Invites)
Gregory Culpin
It used to be that if a link was worth sharing, people would bookmark it for all to see on del.icio.us. Now, they just Twitter it (with a shortened URL). Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to separate out all the Tweets with links in them, and sort them by time or popularity? That is what MicroPlaza does in a nutshell.
Read the full article at www.techcrunch.com
Monday, March 2nd, 2009
How to Present While People are Twittering
Gregory Culpin
People used to whisper to each other or pass hand-scribbled notes during presentations. Now these notes are going digital on Twitter or via conference-provided chat rooms.
Up until now, this back-channel has been mainly confined to the Internet industry and technology conferences. However, a survey of leadership conferences from Weber Shandwick shows that there is a significant increase in blogging and twittering at conferences.
So the next time you present at a conference, instead of being confronted by a sea of faces looking at you, you may be phased by a sea of heads looking down at their laptops. The challenge is how to adapt to presenting with the back-channel.
Read the full article at pistachioconsulting.com
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
MicroPlaza: A Personalized Twitter Memetracker
Olivier Verbeke
MicroPlaza provides you with a personalized memetracker based on the links that your friends share on Twitter. While we have seen a fair number of Twitter memetrackers, none of them feature the degree of personalization that MicroPlaza offers. If you follow a very diverse set of people on Twitter, you can also track micro-communities thanks to MicroPlaza’s ‘Tribes’ feature, which lets you organize users into different groups. MicroPlaza is currently in private beta testing, but you can get a glimpse of its non-personalized features on its home page.
Read the full article at www.readwriteweb.com
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
MicroPlaza Solves Twitter Link Sharing
Gregory Culpin
“I’ve had a chance to be one of the early users of MicroPlaza and have come away very impressed. The site maps all links shared by the people you follow on Twitter and displays them by popularity (the number of times they have been retweeted) or by date in a Techeme-style link + sources view. MicroPlaza is great for a few reasons.” by Josh Catone
Read the full article at www.sitepoint.com
Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Mining The Thought Stream
Olivier Verbeke
What if you could peer into the thoughts of millions of people as they were thinking those thoughts or shortly thereafter? And what if all of these thoughts were immediately available in a database that could be mined easily to tell you what people both individually and in aggregate are thinking right now about any imaginable subject or event? Well, then you’d have a different kind of search engine altogether. A real-time search engine. A what’s-happening-right-now search engine.
Read the full article at www.techcrunch.com
Friday, February 13th, 2009
Knowledge Plaza : Sophisticated Knowledge Workspace
Gregory Culpin
A great ZDNet article from Oliver Marks on the platform behind the Knowledge Heroes.
“Knowledge Plaza is a relatively new offering in the enterprise collaboration space and offers a very sophisticated set of tools aimed primarily at knowledge workers, and whose development has been influenced by a very large international consulting company.
This product is essentially a seriously powerful and secure hub around which you can aggregate both internally created and stored content, as well as material from the entire internet, which can be tagged and contextually store.”
Read the full article at blogs.zdnet.com
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
The Smart Growth Manifesto
Olivier Verbeke
Obama is stimulating. Davos is deliberating. C-levels are eliminating. Wall St is recriminating. Welcome to the macropocalypse: no one, it seems, can put the global economy back together again.
It’s time to reboot capitalism. So where do we begin?
Here’s a suggestion for what should be at the top of agenda of every decision-maker across the economy, from Davos, to Obama, to Sand Hill Road, to the revolutionaries in tiny garages hatching tomorrow’s Googles: reconceiving growth.
Read the full article at blogs.harvardbusiness.org
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