Lovely day spent with the Boston KM Forum's "Leveraging Virtual Teams & Social Tools for Business Advantage: Blogs, Wikis, Twitter, et al. After lunch, Sadie Van Buren from Knowledge Management Associates got best-in-show for her truly beautiful slides. Tags: 90% people, 10% technology Collaboration Communities of practice Internet/web Knowledge management Networks and Networking Social bookmarking Social Here's the group, snapped with my phone, just as Jeff and I started our tap dance on virtual teams. We were followed by WBUR's New Media Director, Ken George , who showed how blurry the lines have become between different kinds of media.

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By Steve Borgatti, Carroll School of Management, Boston College Introduction All knowledge is socially constructed, but some more than others. In some cases, an individual interacts with a number of others who may be completely unaware of what problem he is trying to solve, and then, with the knowledge gained, the individual goes off by himself and synthesizes a solution. In other cases, the new knowledge is These two kinds of knowledge creation are supported by different kinds of network structures. Individual Creativity To maximize individual creativity,

How Toyota and Linux Keep Collaboration Simple 8/1/2005 The Toyota and Linux communities illustrate time-tested techniques for collaboration under pressure: Share knowledge widely, frequently, and in small increments, and use universally available tools to do it. This collaboration also relies on two infrastructure components: a shared pool of knowledge and universally available tools for moving knowledge around. Common intellectual property. From Harvard Business Review . by Philip Evans and Bob Wolf Tuesday, December 2, 2003 Near midnight, Andrea Barisani, system administrator in the physics department of the University of Trieste, discovered that an attacker had struck his institutions Gentoo Linux server.

because when a group of people get together to discuss something, they throw all the collective knowledge in the pot – good, bad, useful, useless – in it goes. The writer took her grievances to Twitter after Boston Globe reviewer Roberta Silman issued a mildly negative review of her new book ‘The Story Sisters.’ 8220;Roberta Silman in the Boston Globe is a moron. One of the rules of journalism that gets broken, unthinkingly, by us online is the name and shame convention . Journalists name senior executives for their naughtiness but tend to keep 

conference event in Boston in June 2009. This is a thought I have started to grow very fond of a little while ago, perhaps over two years ago, when I first heard Dave Snowden saying something along the lines the the firewall has got its days numbered with more and more knowledge workers wanting to “go outside” and taste the lovely waters of ad-hoc collaboration, knowledge sharing and co-creation with their own customers and business partners and other thought leaders from the industry. It is a subject very I tell you, it is starting to become some sort of an unstoppable addiction checking out all of these wonderful various interviews that both Oliver Marks and Stowe Boyd continue to carry out for their on-going Open Enterprise 2.0

conference event in Boston. Capturing knowledge whenever it happens, processing it accordingly, and making it available right away afterwards for further re-use! Then it came the realisation of how people share knowledge because they want to share their know-how, their experiences, their lessons learned, not because something or someone asks them to, which resulted in helping break down the silos and hierarchical structures allowing employees and top management to be on the same scale, i.e. (Continued … ) This is Part II from a previous blog post I have put together detailing some of the major highlights from Day Two from the Enterprise 2.0

Yes, indeed, I am almost done with this series of blog entries sharing with you folks what I learned throughout the event that took place in Boston a few weeks back. And that was how apparently at Lockheed Martin personal, non-work related, knowledge / information exchanges are not encouraged by the communities themselves; in fact, they self-regulate them out of the work environment. Social capital skills are And we continue further with one of the last blog posts I will be putting together as part of the Enterprise 2.0 conference event highlights.

conference event in Boston, held a few weeks ago, here is the entry that contains the major key learnings for myself for Day Three ; last day of the conference and a much shorter day, since it only went through till just about lunchtime. in Boston: That’s what knowledge workers want to do; they don’t want to adopt a As I am coming close to the end of the series of highlights blog posts from the Enterprise 2.0 There are still a couple of other articles I would want to put together on the subject, but this is probably the last one that will detail what

Bill Ives (Portals and KM) provided a write-up of the workshop delivered in Boston last week . Business and IT staff whose job responsibility involves the following: innovation, talent management, collaboration, knowledge management, or community-building Strategists who would like to expand their knowledge of social networking trends I've read his blog for some time as well and it was nice to meet Bill and many others in the E2.0 social circle at the conference.