This one from Lotus does a surprisingly good job.  Tags: KM Knowledge Managemen Not perfect, but not at all bad… Thanks to Geoff Parcell for spotting it. ...Tags:

Andy comes to question whether e-mail has got a place in the current collaboration landscape within the enterprise, as perhaps the one and only that works, the one that cannot die, the one that knowledge workers cannot do without as an essential tool to collaborate and share their knowledge with their peers. In short, he comes to propose that those folks who have been saying that e-mail is nowadays pretty much dead, as a collaboration tool (After all, " Email is where knowledge goes to die " — does that quote ring a bell ?), Earlier on today, and through various different sources, both inside and outside the firewall, I got alerted by several folks on the latest blog post put together by Andy McAfee on a very thought-provoking, insightful, and dear to my heart, topic, that I thought I would share over here a few more insights on it, since a bunch of the folks who told me about it indicated how Andy might have called me out for my endeavour on living " A World Without Email ".

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A few days back you would remember how I put together a blog post on the topic of " The Man Who Should Have Used Lotus Connections – On the Misuse of Email " where I mentioned a wonderful video clip that one of my fellow IBM colleagues put together detailing the misuse of sending files through email and how so much more efficient, and effective, completing that very same task would have been by using a file sharing Web site, like Connections Files , right? Well, it looks like Jean Francois decided to tap into this very same thing as well and the second episode of " The Man

Go and have a look into The Man Who Should Have Used Lotus Connections ; a short, incredibly accurate, and hilarious , video clip of a bit over three and a half minutes that describes the painful experience of going through such a relative easy task / activity of sharing files with your colleagues using what we have been using for years: yes, indeed, email! (Funny In this particular example, it showcases IBM’s Lotus Connections (The Files component, to be more precise, which is by now one of my favourite social software tools behind the IBM firewall! I am not sure whether you may have been listening to the CBC radio show Spark interview I did with Nora Young earlier on this week, and which I have blogged about it over here , but, if you have, you may have noticed I have tried to explain how all along, during all of this time living " A World Without Email ", I don’t have anything against it per se, as a system to help people communicate with one another.

Things have been rather busy at work, just like every other day, but the interesting thing is that those free moments I would usually dedicate to hang out in various social software spaces I have then dedicated to participating in an online massive idea generation event that IBM Lotus has organised and which started on Wednesday already. Yes, indeed, check out Lotus Knows IdeaJam . As you may have noticed already, the last few hours I have been relatively quiet over here in my blog and it is not that I have gone missing again with another business trip. No, not yet.

But if you have been a knowledge worker for a while now getting exposed to social software in general and making heavy use of it you will know exactly what I mean and also you would come to the conclusion that exciting times are ahead of us! 34; It won’t be enough to hire knowledge workers to survive and thrive in this recession. Earlier on today, while I was getting started with my morning catchup routines, I got things going with my twitterings with this particular tweet : " Having one of those days where I keep questioning whether it’s all worth it pushing the limit as a 2.0

IBM Lotus Sametime : with over 10 million instant messages shared across every day (Yes, 10 million!!); WikiCentral : our internal wiki platform from which Mark shares plenty of business & uses cases on how wikis can be used inside the corporate firewall to help improve collaboration and knowledge sharing across teams and communities to take innovation into new levels. Those are some of the major areas that Mark Hennessy gets to cover in this five minute interview at Earlier on today, a fellow IBM colleague, and good friend, John Rooney , shared in various microsharing Web sites (Both internal and external) a link to a recent interview I thought would be rather interesting for folks out there who would be keen on reading further on IBM’s efforts exploring the world of social software and using its 400.000 + employee workforce as testbed for many of the social tools most of us have been exposed to for a while already and some of which eventually make it into IBM products in the area of Enterprise Social Software.

It’s probably, next to finding information, the number one challenge that every single knowledge worker faces on their day to day workload routines. But then came our internal deployment of Lotus Connections Profiles and its Boards feature that took the whole concept of micro-sharing/-blogging into a new level. There are plenty of benefits that I could list from fostering this kind of behaviour, and perhaps There is no doubt that one of the big challenges in the corporate world that every single business faces more often than not is the ability to find experts successfully in a timely manner.

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