Culture is really important for collaboration technology to work in a group or organization. If the culture isn't right, "collaboration" as a human process expressed through various communication and collaboration technologies can't take root. met with a new client earlier this week to talk about a senior management attempt to encourage "collaboration", but the stories the two people I met with told about the organizational culture made me write the following back to them: "Collaboration" I Collaboration" will fail at your firm, because of lack of trust.

The right culture – by which we mean (in a nutshell) networked, open, collaborative, impassioned, obsessive active participants in our rapidly mutating media convergence culture. You need a culture where people are encouraged to understand this stuff from the inside – not looking in down from another disconnected world. So, to “ the right culture “ . Another week, another blog post on the subject of “why creative advertising folk need to embrace ‘technologists and their geeky ways’” once again ignites vigorous debate.

free culture is nothing more than, and nothing less than, mankind’s natural propensity to communicate, collaborate and share. A defense and explanation of free culture , by Roger Lancefield : “Free culture isn’t about ripping off someone else’s “intellectual property”, neither is it about a generation of youngsters who are growing up with the expectation that expensively produced content should be available at zero cost. Free culture It is not a fad, it goes much deeper. Characterising it in narrow terms as a politically motivated cult, or as a commercially damaging

We initiated the Online Community Culture study in October of 2008, as part of the ongoing research agenda of the Online Community Research Network. The intention of the study was to get a broad look at the factors that influence online community culture, and the steps community managers and strategists take in cultivating, and in some cases influencing, a community’s culture. Key Factors Establishing an Online Community's Culture We had over 75 participants in the research, representing many sectors, including software, tech, traditional media, social media and online community, and non-profits.

Manuel Castells has some great things to say about Citilabs , a digital cultural center in Cornella, Barcelona, which I had the occasion to visit two months ago, and fell in love with, because of the enthusiasm and solidarity of the staff, and the great combination of high digital culture with an integration in the working class neighborhood where they are located. What is important is that there is the same cultural diversity and range of ages as that of a city. A place full of grandparents and grandchildren and teenagers, not just the postmodern artistic community which

Anyway, his book, Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture , deals with the aesthetics, the nostalgia, the life-affirming, self-indulgent nature and the optimistic kindness of pouring your musical taste into 60 minutes of delicate black tangley tape, and passing it on to someone special, hoping they understand that all your Smiths and Joy Division tracks mean you’re cool, interesting and in need of a little kiss, rather than terribly depressed and socially awkward… But expanding on the cassette culture that Generation Y and Generation X grew up surrounded by, you start to

Yes, I’m talking about culture. Indeed, it’s all about a cultural shift, one that is starting to take the corporate world by storm at multiple levels, going from a grassroots bottom-up approach all the way to a top down executive level. So I thought that today I will put together this blog post to start talking about something that it’s been on my mind for a while and which touches base on how receptive, open and collaborative the culture of a particular business needs to be in order to adopt and embrace social software. If you ask some people out there what social computing and social software are all about for them, they would probably tell you that it’s all about the tools, about this new set of social technologies, about all that fancy stuff that you can do on the Internet nowadays in a much simpler and more effective manner, without being too technical for that matter.

in terms of culture than an organisation that has a lot of web2.0 tools but lacks the culture. But probably in both cases, it has to match your organisational culture too. Tools and culture: is your organisational culture ready for social media or do you want to shift the culture by introducing social media?. I'm re-reading Schein: organisational culture and leadership. image through ericmackonline.com This post may be a little chaotic as I'm using it to get a grip on some of my ideas about social media for organisations. Tomorrow I'm

Culture Required? The post below is worth reading. The issue of (in this case, successful use of wikis) culture is critically important when forming, nurturing and sustaining collaboration strategies. But it is indeed use of a wiki for collaboration and it can thrive without the culture issues that this post correctly points out. Collaborative Thinking Perceptions on collaboration and social software by Mike Gotta See how were connected Connections February 2009 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

From a stimulating essay by Catherine Marie Simpson on the decline on car culture: As a car sharer, the driver has to acknowledge that this is not their private domain, and the car no longer becomes an extension of their living room or bedroom, as is noted in much literature around car cultures (Morris, Sheller, Simpson). But it’s not just the technology people are embracing; a cultural shift is occurring in the way that people understand mobility, their own subjectivity, and more Catherine Marie Simpson: “Car sharing shifts the dominant conception of a car from being a ‘commodity’, which people purchase and subsequently identify with, to a ‘service’ or network of vehicles that are collectively used.