This is terrific example of purposeful collaboration delivering results. The opportunity to collaborate generated many tangible benefits for both companies. And that's not surprising because a collaboration experience can improve the level of conversation, energise teams and have a positive impact on the bottomline. Google and P&G are both known for their innovation capabilities and strict internal policy. Driven by market forces, they made an exception.

Home Product Pricing Forums Support FAQ Blog EtherPad: Really real-time collaboration EtherPad lets multiple people work on the same text simultaneously. Create new pad (no signup: instantly start writing) 90-second screencast Insanely useful for Meeting notes Conference calls Drafting & wordsmithing Technical phone interviews Team programming Collaborative storywriting More... Features No account required

Collaborate with your classmates to create a unified set of notes for your class. The idea is that users in the same class can collaboratively create a definitive source for lecture notes. E-mail: Password: Register Forgot password? There are plenty of notes services out there; NoteMesh is a different way of thinking about your notes. Its like Wikipedia for your notes.

Tags: Collaboratio On Tuesday I worked with three new communities of practice in a government agency. Each group was quite different but in all of them we talked about the things the groups should do first. I promised to send them ideas on conversations they might consider early on.

tools to foster learning and collaboration in knowledge-intensive organisations. Or whether they hold the potential to turn over the way knowledge workers collaborate in organisations. On the one hand I don't think it is an automatic process- you introduce a wiki and hoops, the various departments that used to have such diferent attitudes start to collaborate. We're writing a booklet in Dutch about the possibilities of web2.0 I'm struggling a little whether the tools are just helpful and nice, helping you to do your regular work.

A couple of weeks ago, I opened a new foray into organizational collaboration here on my blog. You can read that introductory post (October 13) for the context and my philosophy about organizational collaboration. That's basically the flow that I took with the 7 Pillars (for team collaboration). In this post, I'll put up the four foundations, and then in subsequent posts will discuss them more fully. The Four Foundations The

In the previous two posts ( Shawn's on his forthcoming presentation and Chandni's about collaboration between Google and P&G) have used specific examples to illustrate how collaborative practices can add value to an organisation. In many cases, the value of collaboration is difficult to articulate using numbers. In We (not surprisingly I guess) strongly advocate that organisations systematically identify, collect and communicate their collaboration 'success stories'.

The latter is a little different as it’s an on-the-fly tool to perform and coordinate tasks/conversations similar to email, but with less annoyance…sometimes called Activity-Centric Collaboration . This is totally in tune with how we behave as it has very low barriers to start something, and to contribute, in fact it has the ease of email, but is less frustrating in coordinating…which means these spaces may just be the next killer app to solve our annoyance with current tools like email when trying to do tasks/collaborate. 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.

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What is driving Cisco into the collaboration market? Cisco believes that the collaboration market is in transition – that there are structural changes in the market that opens the door for Cisco to leverage its assets (voice, video, and networking) in ways that will enable it to take a leadership position. What major changes in the collaboration market is Cisco exploiting? The following is Part 1 of a series on today's announcement by Cisco . There are many reasons driving Cisco in this direction (revenue opportunities, growth needs, and customer demand).