For a number of years I have cringed every time one of my clients tells me that have or are planning to deploy Microsoft SharePoint as a collaborative platform. They say it is their “social media” deployment. SharePoint is many things, but it misses the critical element of social media which is networked connection between people and ideas, easy discoverability, makes visible and allows people to act on weak ties, and support

This time around with something really exciting and truly innovative that has been going on in my mind the entire day, ever since I watched a specific YouTube video that I bumped into from an earlier tweet from the always insightful Mike Wesch referencing an experiment done by Dr . Then you must watch The Twitter Experiment by Dr. After a couple of days off from my regular blogging activities, as I went on a business trip to Madrid for a couple of days end of last week to share some more thoughts and insights on social software adoption at an internal event, I am now back once more.

We conducted a week-long experiment with Twitter , for 12 people who were not yet familiar with the tool. In this blogpost, we'll describe the experiment, and we'll summarize the reflections and new ideas for applicability of the tool. Our experiment was introduced with the following instructions (here summarized): Sign up for a twitter account at [link] (in the right upper corner) and add a photo of yourself by clicking on Your Profile and share you twitter I'll also share my own ideas about Twitter in more detail. Twitter is: A global community of friends and strangers

These cloud-enabled devices can play a role in understanding what you're doing, offering you assistance and improving the experience that you have doing it. Devices increasingly become important not only as user experiences, but also as sensors. Ultimately, the cloud creates a fundamental opportunity to approach user experience in a much different way. Insightful expansion of what cloud computing could enable...  Into the cloud: a conversation with Russ Daniels, Part II - Ars Technica

We conducted a week-long experiment with Twitter , for 12 people who were not yet familiar with the tool. In this blogpost, we'll describe the experiment, and we'll summarize the reflections and new ideas for applicability of the tool. Our experiment was introduced with the following instructions (here summarized): Sign up for a twitter account at [link] (in the right upper corner) and add a photo of yourself by clicking on Your Profile and share you twitter I'll also share my own ideas about Twitter in more detail. Twitter is: A global community of friends and strangers

Zappos CEO Talks Culture Fit and the Importance of Creating a ‘Wow’ Experience (readwriteweb.com) Image via CrunchBase Zappos is a well-known social media case study. The Las Vegas shoe retailer was founded in 1999 selling shoes online.

Collaboration Experiments (in Reluctant Organizations) I vebeen having a lot of conversations lately about how to helporganizations become more effective at enabling collaboration. And they need to knowwhat the capacity and cultural fit for additional collaboration is, andwork within that capacity and culture rather than trying to overtax andchange it. Once theyunderstand the current state, they can start to identify feasible,small-scale experiments that have the greatest chance of success, andselect appropriate tools to implement them. Dave Pollards environmental philosophy, creative works, business papers and essays.

As we use our e-collaboration community as a laboratory for experimenting with e-tools, we decided to prepare an upcoming f2f meeting using online teleconferencing. In the first meeting we experimented with High Speed Conferencing . Having Skype and regular phone users on the same call might be very helpful for international communities. Experiences with High Speed Conferencing This online preparation meeting When you don’t know how to ride a bike, walking is always faster! An online conference call seems like a simple, cheap and accessible way for bringing a distributed group together.

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 in most partner countries.

Don’t just be beautiful through utility, create passion by crafting an experience that quickens the breath just that little bit. Though I suspect that this response is heavily based upon what Rams’s work now represents rather than the experience of using such a design classic. However, now more than ever, creating an experience that quickens the breath – whether it be a product or a service – may be the only way to creating brand loyalty and a Dieter Rams is big at the moment. His ten principles of good design seemed to explode around the interweb when the new Vitsoe