This gathering in Barcelona from October 29 to November 1 may well be one of the most important of the year, because it will set a political framework and agenda for the free culture movement and represents a maturation and coming of age. The Forum will be an open space for drawing up proposals to present the position of civil society on the privatization of the intellectual production and creation debate and its impact on access to knowledge, and on creation and distribution of art and culture.” I am happy to be able to participate.

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will incorporate new capabilities like providing a simple yet powerful way to migrate non-standard Notes applications to SharePoint, the ability to export all Notes code into a SQL database, a flexible rules engine with integration into SQL reporting services, and multi-threaded and multi-machine migration processing capabilities with automated workload distribution. " More NewsGator is hosting a webinar on October 28, at which a Forrester Research analyst will look at how social networking technologies are changing organizations. " Tandberg Says No to Cisco ... Tandberg has

Socialtext removed the beta tag from SocialCalc, its distributed spreadsheet service. " SocialCalc enables large and distributed teams to collaborate across spreadsheets, as an alternative to playing e-mail volleyball with Excel(TM) attachments. Central Desktop in Intuit App Center ... Central Desktop announced that its collaboration services are now available through the Intuit App Center. "

Use of mass email distribution lists, or "broadcast emails," should be limited to crisis communications -- a message from the CEO or time-sensitive company-wide news, Ward said. " More Collaboration and the Intranet ... A few analysts argue that the intranet is the natural home for collaboration tools. "

Very, very useful for distributed teams. " Telepresence in Law ... Red Hill Law Group is using BrightCom video conferencing equipment to create a telepresence solution for multi-site collaboration. " Red Hill Law Group lawyers can share information by posting images, documents and video in real time. Users log

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2006 Participation Inequality in Social Design Jakob Nielsen sAlertbox, October 9, 2006: Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute Summary: In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action. Are you going to have the "usual" 90-9-1 distribution, or the more radical 99-1-0.1 use it.com Alertbox Oct. All large-scale, multi-user communities and online social networks that rely on users to contribute content or build services share

Another useful indicator is the distribution of inputs and outputs across roles in the network. Value Networks and VNA Language and Definitions The Glossary of Terms commonly used in Value Network Analysis (VNA) was updated earlier this year along with the Help Library in the ValueNetworks.com™ application. This comprehensive document is also publicly available in the How-To Guides section of the Open Value Networks resource website, www.openvaluenetworks.com/ .

Here are my additions and some answers to specific questions posed by Dave: When faced with the choice of learning new technology and chatting to colleagues on the phone and email to get a job done, if it can be done with what they already know they will go with that; Collaboration tools work best when your collaborators are geographically distributed and in other time zones and I wonder how many teams have that as a situation? Put practice and process before tools. Send this entry to: Email this entry to a friend View the Technorati Link Cosmos