They might be useful to tap into insights that escape more formal documents, to see faces behind ideas, to have conversations across hierarchical boundaries and to connect with experts found in unexpected parts of an organisation or outside it. Compared to writing a document, which has a particular purpose and audience in mind, personal nature of blogging requires less mental restrictions around what is appropriate: you can always imagine writing for yourself. While my Dutch is still far from perfect I am happy with any opportunity to reach local audiences. One of them was writing

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For example, it might replace email for sharing news with a team, be used for documenting one’s work to reflect on it over time, or to find out who might be the person to discuss a problem. For example, while documenting ideas about work might result in finding like-minded people in the future, it is easier to carry on doing it knowing that doing so is useful even if nobody appear to be interested (e.g. Behind my PhD research is an interest in translating practices of early adopters of weblogs into something that those that come after them might use: an understanding of relative advantage of blogging in knowledge-intensive environments and it’s compatibility with existing practices.

Like guilds, most of this information is captured not in documents, but in tacit knowledge that team members pass from person to person.  Scrum and Agile are wonderful team organizational systems.  It’s been easy to see the benefits, but over time, we’ve started to see some issues appear.  Since the benefits are measurable and the battle to get Agile accepted has been hard-fought, those

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Bloggers might use their weblogs to document their experiences and lessons learnt – those that escape official reports, but are usually very useful for others to learn from. For example, why not start a weblog for trip reports that are currently lost in separate documents? Make it part of “work as usual” – make sure that spending some time on blogging is perceived as normal, account for it in Promised to blog this piece from the dissertation in February (together with What pragmatists might want to know about blogging ), but wasn’t happy with it. Still not happy,

Collaborative Document Writing: Online Word Processor Puts The Turbo On Comments Features - Coventi Pages Web applications continue to grow in number, offering easy ways to work both on and off-line with your documents and opening up more opportunities for online collaboration. new online word processor promises to bring document editing to the next level, by adding precision commenting features that set it apart from the existing slew of collaborative writing applications out there, and the good news is that it is entirely free. Photo credit: Didier Kobi We

About | Contributors | Contact us | Subscribe: via RSS , via Twitter + sponsored by QuickBase 7 Tips for improving productivity through web-based software Telligent Releases an Integrated Suite of Collaboration Tools with High Powered Metrics by Bill Ives July 17, 2009 at 3:11 am · Filed under Web 2.0 Telligent is an enterprise collaboration and community software company that offers a social software suite for both public and internal-facing online communities. products also

Big Ideas for getting all that work done. Connectbeam Offers New Social Networking Application Integration Possibilities by Bill Ives April 28, 2008 at 8:07 am · Filed under Reviews Recently, I had a chance to catch up with Puneet Gupta, CEO of Connectbeam . As the post title suggests they believe that business networking begins around the sharing of ideas and information so they tightly integrated social bookmarking into their social networking platform. About | Contributors | Contact us | Subscribe: via RSS , via Twitter UPCOMING WEBINAR: No Time, No Budget, Fewer People?

Debbie Ireland (from EnvisionIT ) and Cameron Dwyer (from Scinaptic ) talked about using SharePoint for document management, along with two third-party products. bit of dabbling, corporate documents; some metadata, few or no content types, published content - project and team sites with shared document libraries (planned business classification, content types, version control) - Signs of maturity with SharePoint: - minimal structure ...