Or to take Anderson’s example, Encarta sales didn’t bring in money equivalent to the exchange value it destroyed for Britannica et al. You probably spend less time watching TV news, and less money on newspapers than you did 10 years ago, and are better informed. He stated this assessment in even sharper terms in a comment under Michel Bauwens’s blog post on the exchange: What’s variously called the “ cognitive capitalism ” model, or Paul Romer’s New Growth Theory, assumes that technological progress and increased efficiency will lead to “economic growth” in the sense of the total volume of monetized economic activity.

Regularly, meetings help a lot but are not enough for an effective information exchange. The daily interaction happens mostly through email or a monthly newsletter, which does not always reaches everybody leading to the usual information overload. Valuable information and experiences are lost in individual email folders or are not always communicated outside the project team. Christian Kreutz worked for two years at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit ( GTZ ) in Egypt. The German Technical Cooperation works quite decentralized having country offices

traced the visit back to Business Exchange , Bloomberg Business Week’s social bookmarking site “that helps professionals discover and organize information from across the Web… a great way to share content and find the most relevant news on business topics.” Anita Campbell , a Twitter friend and CEO of Small Business Trends , “an online small biz community reaching over 250,000 each month,” had saved my blog post, The Social Media ROI Obsession , on the Business Exchange site. Looking over my traffic stats several weeks ago, I was very surprised to notice that a single visitor had been referred to my blog by Business Week .

Informal communication is about everything else. There are enough triggers for an opportunity-based communication and being in front of someone makes negotiating about time, space and channels for informal communication easy (you rather make a minute to talk about the thing, say “no” or make an arrangement about communicating later on). From one side, when there is no “easyness” of face-to-face settings, we are likely to rely on structured communication, since negotiating time and resources for informal As promised – more thinking from our project looking at the challenges in distributed Agile teams .

came away with a new/old idea: that we need an open innovation exchange to help entrepreneurs, councils and customer/citizens collaborate to find new ways forward. They didn’t even go to the same conferences: “The senior people will be at the old-style big ticket events, while those lower in the hierarchy who may know what’s needed are at the informal barcamps and unconferences.” But The Crowdsourced Council event earlier this week was for me interesting at three levels. First for the idea expressed in the name - that councils should use a variety of different

It’s absolutely paramount that KM sheds its skin of codifying and storing in a database…this is just information management. Sure some people may share some informal documents about experience and insight (considering low recall, and lack of motivation/engagement), but it’s still just information management…maybe the management of informal documents. We share ‘information’, whereas ‘knowledge’ ie we use our current knowledge or understanding to make sense of new information, and if it really makes sense to us or to our context; or we use it in action, then it will imprint as a pattern or fragment in our person.

Chris Lott's Information Fluency and Social Fluency A repost of an article from Information Fluency. way is what Chris calls 'information fluency'. I peer-to-peer world where social exchange is two-way. BLOG Friday Flashback: Chris from one year ago A fter Nancy

The billion-years rise of extropy — as it flings up stable molecules, solar systems, a planetary atmosphere, life, mind and the technium — can be restated as the slow accumulation of ordered information. Or rather, the slow ordering of accumulated information. Information is its own force in the universe, which started with energy, became increasingly matter, but also increasingly dematerialized So writes Kevin Kelly in a very important review of the role of information in countering the natural entropy of the universe. Excerpt: “The technium can be understood

Day: Peripheral Vision: Detecting the Weak Signals That Will Make or Break Your Company Subscribe to this blogs feed « Building a Culture of Collaboration | Main | Facebook For Business: A Win Even If Its Not » October 05, 2007 Harnessing The Power Of Informal Employee Networks Registration is required but the registration provides free access to this particular article. would offer some cautionary advice - informal networks are - well - informal. 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

quot;Work is routinely conducted among employees, business partners and customers without a clear understanding of the positions that people play in the social network or a quantification of the value exchanges that occur," said Carol Rozwell, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner [pictured]. "CIOs, Gartner has identified three variations of social network analysis that can help organizations realize a Pattern-Based Strategy: Organizational Network Analysis explores the constraints, connections, communication and information flows among individuals, or nodes,