You can do this on a wiki (with comments) or Google Docs (with comments), but the more robust tools I came across were Traction , Basecamp , and Activities on Lotus Connections . Lotus Connections Activities Another great paper about creating more flexible processes is, Ethnographic study of collaborative knowledge work . A little while ago I talked about not so much groupware, but a middle space, moreso activityware, where you create an object and invite people to add to it. I

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:

Connected Search Archives IBM Lotus Connections, in plain English Edit: I used to be the IBM Lotus Connections Technical Evangelist. m part of IBM Lotus Technical Sales, and it is my job to help folks understand what Lotus Connections is and how to use it well. In my opinion, IBM Lotus Connections is primarily social networking software, not collaboration I am now the Social Enterprise Evangelist at Jive Software .

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 ".

Connected Search Archives IBM Lotus Connections, in plain English Edit: I used to be the IBM Lotus Connections Technical Evangelist. m part of IBM Lotus Technical Sales, and it is my job to help folks understand what Lotus Connections is and how to use it well. In my opinion, IBM Lotus Connections is primarily social networking software, not collaboration I am now the Social Enterprise Evangelist at Jive Software .

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

IBM created LotusLive Labs, to bring together IBM Research and Lotus around enhancing cloud collaboration services and capabilities. The LotusLive Notes service will be optimized to support hybrid on-premise and cloud deployments with standard support for directory synchronization between on-premise directories and the cloud, access to application and mail workflows that remain on-premise, and entitlement for every user to use either a browser or the Lotus Notes client to access their email. Day 1 of IBM annual Lotusphere conference was today, in Orlando. Here's what I've seen announced

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.

And that’s one of the main issues that most mobile knowledge workers have got right now as we speak with regards to their own adoption of social software in a corporate environment. And the latest example is coming from one of my favourite social software tools: IBM’s Lotus Connections . Actually, from one of the components I have started to rely very heavily on over the I am sure you would agree with me that Social Computing, and, in particular, social software tools, still have got plenty of different challenges within the enterprise in order to provoke that massive cultural shift most of us have been looking forward to for a long while.