One of the first things we have observed was a heavy focus on goal-oriented communication between people in different locations: they would talk (this includes ‘type’ :) about solving particular problems around work, but hardly anything else. drew a picture to explain what happens in this case that others found useful and quickly nicknamed “the egg” – so, here it is. You can look at communication in a team across two axes. As promised – more thinking from our project looking at the challenges in distributed Agile teams . I

UC gets unified The term "unified communications" has long been muddled and miss-used, and the problem is made worse by vendors who slap a "unified" label on products that are anything but. Analysts and associations will begin to hold vendors accountable for delivering true unified communications, which includes--at a minimum--a single identity with presence at the core, a single inbox, unified management, developer tools, and a unified user experience across voice, conferencing, instant messaging, and email. I thought I would offer some comments on some UC predictions offered by Gurdeep Singh Pall, who heads Microsoft's UC group:

While I came with the communication egg model to talk about things missing in distributed teams I feel that it could be useful in more contexts. At this point it makes sense to go and read Shrunken communication in distributed teams (the egg of communication :) ] One of the things I came up when playing with different ideas was to position teams, communities and networks in respect to the most prevalent forms of communication In particularly to talk about the differences between different types of social constructions in the knowledge management context. [At It’s

Summary / Key Information * Contact Information This Tags: Communicatio At Forum One we have thought a lot about RFP processes through the years. In addition to having participated in a several hundred RFPs, we have also helped many clients write RFPs and have also produced RFP guidelines for several large organizations. RFPs, RFPs, if conducted well, are useful in identifying vendors with appropriate skills and

Operating in a shared space makes various interactions informal and their value implicit – everyone is there, questions are asked and answered, insights and artefacts shared, actions observed. Strong reliance on sharing a space usually means that there are not many backup information flows (to revisit from a distance or later) and that communication practices are not well articulated (so it’s difficult to change them or “move” to another – digital – format if the need arises). Just reflecting on a couple of cases where team performance – by design – depends a lot on sharing the same room.

RJ: What’s your response to people who say that all this information that’s out there, all this knowledge that we’re producing is great, and there’s all this access that we didn’t have before. But we also risk information overload alongside, and we don’t— But the information overload people are the most narcissistic because information overload started in Alexandria, in the library You should definitely make time to read the entire two-part article. Clay covers a variety of topics such as literacy, media, generational shifts and the future of news/journalism.

In my terms: communication is enabled by the common ground between the participants and, in turn, contributes to building more common ground over time. information that the participants share (not necessarily explicitly, as it is often assumed that others know about X because of shared cultural, educational or work background) – I talk about shared knowledge and awareness of the bigger picture here lack of common With the holidays I somewhat took a break from blogging on our work on the distributed Agile case , but there are still quite a few things there that I wanted to share to hear what do you think.

A black frame with the attribution information is included in the picture. There are fabulous images out there, waiting to help us communicate better and add beauty to the world, so go out and get them, and thanks to all the photographers who are sharing their images with license forms that allow us to use them. Tags: collaboration communication technology stewardship photos tool Via Michael Guhlin I’m playing with some tools to find creative commons images for use in things like blogposts, slide shows, etc. I

If you want to consider micro-blogging as a messaging system then I'm fine with that - but Twitter-like applications are going to be defined as a type of communication system (which will trigger all sorts of other issues related to logging, audit, compliance, e-discovery, etc). Well-informed, insightful people scan the news, and share interesting tidbits with their followers. Some good points in this post from Adina Levin (Socialtext). For the most part I agree but we're still in the phase were vendors are hyping the benefits and not being transparent regarding some of the

And I had this information within an hour or so of the meeting. Tags: Governance and participation Information and communicatio I've just written an article for the New Start blog about 'digital engagement'. The other day I asked a few people who were all likely to have useful things to say on the topic, to offer me comments or responses to a few questions.