Communities are a powerful way for businesses to grow Used correctly, communities can impact the top and bottom line of company’s financials: from brands encouraging customers to self-support each other (reducing costs), to spreading word of mouth to each other (efficient marketing and increased sales) to crowd sourcing innovation (streamlining R&D) communities matter more than ever –especially during a recession. What you must do before you select a vendor Many of our clients follow the POST methdology , which is a framework for them to first understand the People they’re

Step Two Designs Beyond The Idea Skip to content Home Blog About us Contact Us Home > articles > collaboration > Successful collaboration requires support CMb 2007-20 Successful collaboration requires support Written by James Robertson , published November 5th, 2007 Categorised under: articles , collaboration , enterprise 2.0 Successful organisation-wide collaboration does not happen by chance. Organisations must, however, support collaboration

One of them was: how can blogs support communities of practice? (Cartoon via tangwailing blog ) I observed that Stan Garfield blogs about questions he receives or overhears about knowledge management. That made me think that I could blog some of the questions I get (+ the answers). 1.

I’ve written in the past of a support team using CoP tools to ask questions (forums), share tips (blogs), list workarounds to processes (wikis)…in all everyone can learn off each other. Traditional designed Support Database design tool would log a call to the support database. Now what about the customer? 1.

In the study of my logging practices (Chapter 3) I looked at my weblog from two perspectives: focusing on its uses as a personal knowledge base (using insights from the research on personal information management to identify those) and the ways it supports the process of growing ideas over time ( awareness and articulation, sense-making and turning them into a product ). The table below matches those, summarising how different stages of idea development are supported by the activities around the weblog content: low-threshold creation of entries; a flexible and personally meaningful way

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34; The trick will be to move from “command and control” to "engage and support”. Tags: People , Trust , Oscar Berg , Control , Command and Control , Value Creation , Business Value , Personal Business Interactions , Euan Semple , infoBOOM , Time , Change , Change Management , Business As Usual , Support , Engage , Enable , Enterprise 2.0 , Social Software , Social Networking , Social Computing , Social Media , Collaboration , Communities , Learning , Knowledge Sharing , KM , Knowledge Management , Remote Collaboration , Innovation , IBM , Networking

The solution is Agriculture Supported Communities. We are all familiar with the CSA, or Community Supported Agriculture – farms that look to the urban and suburban districts to buy shares of their produce, a portion of which is often delivered each week directly to people’s homes or other central pickup location. Agriculture Supported Communities (ASC’s) turns this model around. Aaron French explains : “What we are all looking for with this stimulus plan, after all, is a plan that will quickly create jobs all across the country while at the same time protecting and improving the health of the people involved and the environment in which they live.

Do you ever stand back and try to see the big picture, the view from 50,000 feet of what's going on in organizations, communities, the world? From up there, how would you describe these times? Is it a time of increasing economic and political instability, of growing divisiveness and fear, of failing systems and dying dreams?

However, I wonder if we could re-direct some of the same technology to support organizational collaboration. support for multiple classification methods, such as keyword rules, proximity matching, pattern extraction - natural language support, for 18 languages. Vendors have developed some incredible tools to assist lawyers with eDiscovery situations. For example, consider IBM's InfoSphere Classification Module .