What: Virtualization Journal article on the development of virtual war rooms to help distributed teams get their work done Tags: collaboration email virtual team text messaging telecommute instant messaging virtual teams collaboration technology online collaboration distributed teams Diges What: WSJ article on how text messaging may prevent languages from fading Posts to which it is related: None Bottom line:   Language advocates worry that languages may not stay relevant if they are not used to send text messages on a cellphone.

The introduction of concepts like reach and the power of networks to balance distribution.  This morning I stood alone in my office and watched Barack Obama be sworn in as the 44th President of the United States.  When Aretha Franklin sang, I cried. And basically I didn’t fully stop until just now and if you come poke me I’ll probably start again. And when one’s a 43

eWeek , " In its limited-distribution statement, Microsoft said that the PerformancePoint capabilities will appear in a product called "PerformancePoint Services for SharePoint," and will be available free of charge to licensed SharePoint customers through the upcoming Enterprise CAL version of SharePoint Server. " - 3StepShare ... Lookout Software introduced 3StepShare, for sharing Outlook calendar, contact, task and mail folders in a group without an Exchange Server. "

Globally distributed teams need to talk; not just swap emails and the like. " Don't Forget to Talk!! ... The 675 Intel employees included in the study worked in 53 locations in 22 countries. They completed an online survey about their project teams, reporting how closely they worked with each team member, the frequency with which they communicated with team members using different technologies (including email, telephone, instant messaging and web conferencing), and the extent

The scrum team I worked with for the past 9 months was fully distributed from day one, and within our first two sprints we had managed to find tools and adopt collaboration techniques that reduced the “communication drag” to zero. Gmail 2010 vs Lotus Notes 1995 ... PC Pro compares the planned additions to Gmail with Lotus Notes from the mid-1990s. "

After the 7.0-magnitude earthquake leveled Haiti, folks mobilized quickly via Facebook and Twitter to hold Crisis Camps January 16 in Washington, Los Angeles, and elsewhere. Crisis Camp DC participants work hard to develop applications and tools for relief workers in Haiti. Earlier this week, I introduced a series of blog posts discussing the Good News Story in Haiti .

It is a pragmatic approach to the increasingly distributed nature of people across the internet. Distributed community Here is a distributed community. We have realised, after more than 10 years of web development and Knowledge Management, that when you put knowledge in a box, it becomes something in a box; only by setting it free and sharing it does it grow and thrive through distributed conversations. Ed Mitchell: Platform neutral Network and community design and facilitation; event design and facilitation. Blog About Ed Projects Services Three types of community November 16, 2007 – 10:20 am This is a brief overview of three community models.

The enormous growth figures of social networks like Facebook, Bebo and MySpace clearly indicate a general move on the internet towards distributed communities based on people’s preferences and personal networks where once the space was dominated by big portal style communities. A one way porously walled garden Distributed: possibly a very small private hub, but the core turned inside out with outposts in a variety of different locations (as above), offering members a chance to interact purposefully in each one. Ed Mitchell: Platform neutral Network and community design and facilitation; event design and facilitation. Blog About Ed Projects Services Social networks: findings with Amnesty October 26, 2007 – 3:56 pm Over June/July 2007, Steve Bridger and I worked with The Amnesty International UK (AIUK) web team, helping them build community around, and promote the Make Some Noise Movement in the run up to the launch of The Instant Karma CD.

8221; Pluck “A leader in social media software solutions , Pluck helps transform how publishers, media sites and major brands engage their audiences and customers to discover, create and distribute information online. Sometimes there’s nothing else to describe them. Thijs Sprangers January 23rd, 2008 2:11 pm Hi Jeremiah, Great overview of competitors although I believe only few are truly specialized in corporate social networks. About Contact Web Strategy Vault Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing Jeremiah Owyang discusses how web tools and social media enable companies to connect with customers Instant Communities: List of companies that provide Web Collaboration Suites or Platforms July 20th, 2007 | Category: Industry Index , Collaboration , Enterprise Web , Intranet , Web Tools , Social Media Need to build an online community that collaborates?

From all the research (quantitative and qualitative) I have conducted thus far blogs, social networks, wikis, and the rest all improve the ability to manage and orient large, globally distributed organizations far better than they improve the operations of smaller organizations.” 8221; For more of Young’s thinking on the topic, please read his comment below and his blog I Know It When I See It January 27 2009 Comments More and more often these days I get asked “Does [offering X] from [vendor Y] qualify as an