Petersmeyer is the CEO of Personal Pathways , a startup that aims to increase levels of trust and confidence among people within an enterprise “who need to collaborate successfully, but who don’t really know one another.” 8221; (I have no financial interest in or business relationship with PP) PP believes in the power of technology to increase trust and confidence among weakly-tied colleagues (and perhaps even to convert potential ties into actual ones). Andrew McAfee’s Blog The Business Impact of IT Home About RSS Is craigslist or eHarmony the Right Model for Enterprise 2.0? February 23 2009 Comments I had a very interesting talk a little while back with Gregg Petersmeyer and a couple of his colleagues.

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Our experiences with Moodle in a learning trajectory on Capacity Development In the past six months we (PSO) experimented with Moodle, an online learning- and working environment we used in an action learning trajectory on ‘The how and what of capacity development’. And it seems worthwhile to share some of our first experiences with you in this blog. Mainly because we find it wasn’t very easy to integrate an online platform in the broader learning process. How to design an environment in which new users can find their way?

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My March post on SharePoint Tom Vander Wall Nails My Sharepoint Experience continues to get hits in a way few of my hundreds of blog posts ever have. In the past week three separate conversations have come up about the challenges of using SharePoint as an organizational intranet or portal in international NGOs. (I I presume this applies to US non profits as well, but oddly, I have heard of far fewer use cases.) Hmmm… Something is a ‘cooking. In each case there have been the following factors where the organization:

To paraphrase Annette Simmons, "People wont listen to you until they know who you are and what you want." And one of the best ways to introduce yourself and answer these two questions is to tell a story that reveals something about your character and experience. The challenge for many people, however, is to find and tell a story that doesn't sound like you are just blowing your own trumpet. One approach is to take the spotlight off yourself and make someone else the lead. You can then play the supporting role.

There are plenty of people out there whom I continue to admire and respect a great deal over the course of the years; especially, those folks in the areas of Knowledge Management, Collaboration, Communities, Learning and Social Computing. am sure most of them do not know it, but through their insightful writing, their always interesting podcasts, their truly inspiring presentations at conference events, their timeless engaging, and equally fascinating, conversations when you meet them face to face, in short, through their sempiternal willingness to share with others what they know, has

some college student in a Texas Ag program writes up permaculture for Malawi, and a retired doctor in Hawaii translates it, and two teenagers in suburban Durban make a video and dub it, and a Japanese phone services start up compresses the video so it fits over thin pipes, and a guy in Brazil wires it to the GPS formats used by the local phone companies, and pretty soon there’s your organic green revolution and people stop dying. 8220; The entire system we currently call “government” is going to be challenged at every level . A rant from Vinay Gupta : “

Last week I mentioned in Twitter how during the course of the week I’d be putting together a rather compelling and thought-provoking entry where I would detail how folks could kill over 85% of the incoming e-mails they get on a daily basis . Yet, in the end, I didn’t manage to publish it, more than anything else, because, at a certain point, I got carried away and added some additional materials into the mix. And thus the draft needs further editing. This week though, that post will go up and I am surely hoping it would help folks find their way to, finally,

skip to main | skip to sidebar Rexs Thought Spot Personal Reflections on Innovation & Collaboration in a 2.0 These are my personal perspectives only. Wednesday, June 27, 2007 Kindergarten Creativity: How to break out of the box! A group of concerned executives of a large firm gathered together to address a pressing issue that could literally destroy their company. They needed World All comments posted on this blog do not reflect the opinions of any organization that I am affiliated with. asked the facilitator