Day: Peripheral Vision: Detecting the Weak Signals That Will Make or Break Your Company Subscribe to this blogs feed « Facebook For Business: A Win Even If Its Not | Main | Intel launches a company-ranking site: CoolSW » October 07, 2007 More On Formalizing Informal Networks Jay Cross brings up some specific (and valid) cautionary points related to a recent McKinsey article on " Harnessing the Power of Informal Social Networks " that I also commented on here . disagree however that

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

Why the Future of Corporate Computing is ‘Informal’ by Joe McKendrick December 1, 2007 at 6:07 pm · Filed under 2.0 Design Thinking , Barriers , Enterprise 2.0 , Enterprise Software , Facebook , IT Department , Information Management , Messy World , Social Computing , Web 2.0 Nick Carr may be down on IT, but he’s hot on social networking software. The author of IT Doesn’t Matter has sparred frequently with Harvard colleague Andrew McAfee on the value of Enterprise 2.0, but makes the following

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And the next edition of my local newspaper - once the most up-to-date news source available - won’t be distributed until about 12 hours after the earthquake happened.   As librarians, we need to be familiar with the way information is created and transmitted - and how this is changing. I’m wondering how many librarians would pick up the inherent weakness of Tweet Scan as an information tool. Librarians Matter It is and we do. Musing, enthusing, libraries, emerging technologies, balancing, being mum. Home About Audio Contact Output

Besides, the semantic web is mainly about making information machine-processable, but socializing requires people.  Doctorow describes what a bad match social networking software is for our actual social conduct: You’d think that Facebook would be the perfect tool for handling all this [keeping track of our social relationships]. Bookmark the permalink . Anne Truitt Zelenka thinking, teaching, and learning — transparently « links for 2007-11-25 links for 2007-11-29 » The Decline and Fall of Facebook In How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook , Cory Doctorow says, “ In the real world, we don’t articulate our social networks.”

The social relationships then can be leveraged when business problems arise where information or ideas or innovation might not reside within the particular workgroup where the problem originated. Allow for social problem-solving across these informal, ad hoc relationships , perhaps supported by decentralized knowledge sharing and aggregation applications including wikis, blogs, and informal broadcast communications similar to Twitter. Anne Truitt Zelenka thinking, teaching, and learning — transparently « Instant Messaging Gets New Respect 5 Quick Ways to Be More Mindful » Hierarchies Plus: What Enterprise 2.0

technology presents the modern organisation with a plethora of means for communicating new information to staff. nirvana there are some important considerations that need to be given time before we jump for, say, Yammer over Twitter , that go beyond the fear of our internal information being communicated outside the organisation. A very interesting article by Sinan Aral, Erik Brynjolfsson, and Marshall Van Alstyne [1] on access to information through social About | Contributors | Contact us | Subscribe: via RSS , via Twitter + sponsored by QuickBase Sponsored post : Access the 7 Tip Series from Intuit QuickBase on using Web-based software Being social at work: which communications model to adopt for the enterprise?

Enterprise strategists have long been aware that the “informal organization” has tremendous influence on business success or failure. Hierarchy and formal controls can inadvertently result in compliance policies, decision-making roles, and work handing rules that constrain the ability of people to effectively communicate, share information, and collaborate. Breakdowns in information sharing and collaboration and a poor sense of community within 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

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