I set the scenario that at work there may be a task or initiative which involves people from many departments. Just like Jon Mell describes less use of email by incorporating IM into email (placing it in the same spot where you create a new email)…what I would like to see at the end of an Office Communicator Live Meeting, is to be able to spin this real-time (synchronous) ad-hoc group into an asynchronous ad-hoc group using a social network and group tool. The other day when I posted on social networks and ad-hoc groups , I mentioned these online tools need to mirror both our offline behaviour, and our online real-time behaviour.

Community Heartbeats - when synchronous interactions matter  learner who stays away too long may begin to feel they have fallen too far behind, or isolated from their community. That’s where synchronous events can help. What are synchronous events? Synchronous This is the nineth in a series of blog posts I wrote for  Darren Sidnick  late last year in the context of communities of practice as part of online learning initiatives. I

This engagement may be perceived as positive and/or negative . While these may manifest differently online, we should not forget them. Be aware that the way you like to  communicate may or may not reflect the needs of others. For synchronous engagements, consider 7-10 minute chunks in your plan. Candace Whitehead, the Facilitator Support Specialist for the Florida Online Reading Professional Development project  funded by the Florida DOE and housed at the University of Central Florida  [link] contacted me last month inviting me to participate in a web meeting with the cohort of online facilitators working in learning and particularly around literacy issues.

synchronization of read/unread marks, de-duping of redundant feed items, etc). Sure - people may not want to pay for a feed reader when there are so many free ones available but that's really not the key blocking factor - just one of several. Employees may not know about feed readers and feed syndication (an awareness, education and training issue) The article below is interesting in that it does call out a dark truth - enterprise adoption of feed syndication tools has been lacking. However, However, the article disappoints because it gives too much credit to feed readers

There's now an iPhone and iPod touch version of Bento, and it supports synchronization with Bento on the Mac. ...Tags: Web 2.0 at Work ... Oscar comments on technology without culture. " Setting up blogs and wikis in your organization without understanding the need to allow,

2) I would also skip the Synchronous Collaboration component. CubeTree Launch ... CubeTree released its enterprise collaboration suite, with collaboration and social networking capabilities. " CubeTree today announced the availability of its enterprise collaboration suite, the industry’s first free enterprise intranet product built on a powerful social networking platform.

Many people, we suspect, would define collaboration as any situation where people work together in a coordinated way to achieve common objectives and would include highly specified and synchronized coordination, such as traditional assembly line operations. Businesses may not want to show a contractor the markup rate they are charging for services to a client. Notes and Domino 8.5.1 ... IBM announced the beta of Notes and Domino 8.5.1,

NuevaSync offers over-the-air synchronization of calendaring services with mobile devices, eg, Apple iPhone. ...Tags: Ozzie on the Shift to Cloud Computing ... Ray Ozzie recommends that firms get first-hand experience with cloud-based services, by moving email and collaboration there. " Speaking at a JP Morgan event in Boston, Ozzie said that enterprises still don't trust that they will be provided

The service includes automatic versioning, backup and file synchronization, working in the background so as not to disrupt your work. " More (see TeamDrive ) Harold on PKM ... Harold talks about personal knowledge management as a sensemaking activity. " Internally, we go through a process of looking at bits of information and try to make sense of it by adding to our existing knowledge or testing

Mindquarry.com - Work on projects online or off-line, then synchronize as soon as you are back. The great part is that if you work on a document offline, once you go back online it will synchronize with other group memebers. WebScriptLab may not have tons to offer, but what they’ve got so far is pretty useful. Sandro Yes, you miss WE+, a new collaborative tool for project management, based on web 2.0 Skip to content Skip to navigation Mashable Mashable Lists Twitter How To Music Travel WordPress Jobs Games Google Business More Lists Blogger Blogging Bookmarks Browsers Business Celebrity Current Events Dating Desktop Apps Events