Collaboration Experiments (in Reluctant Organizations) I vebeen having a lot of conversations lately about how to helporganizations become more effective at enabling collaboration. Thepeople I know who have tried to do this keep running into three walls: Whatsperceived as urgent in most organizations (i.e. Bepatient. It works! MORE >>

I’m going to gradually, as time permits, migrate all my courseware across to the new format, offer it for free download under Creative Commons for download (lulu or scribd ), or physical colour workbooks via publish on demand Lulu ( [link] ) . Publish at Scribd or explore others: How-to-Guides & Manu tips help. MORE >>

am not sure whether you do or not, but I’m certainly having a blast myself at the moment moving away from multitasking on my day to day work after putting it together, specially for that area where multitasking was the king for me so far: meetings. And all of that thanks to The Pomodoro Technique ! Once again, I was wrong! MORE >>

We ( Gary Hayes from LAMP and I) structured Thursday for speakers to 50 people on their social media marketing campaigns. On Friday, I ran a one-day hands-on computer course on how to do a social media marketing campaign. Then have to go back and build the relationship and trust through points 1 -3. Nutshell time: . MORE >>

The failure rate for online communities has been a popular research topic over the past few years and it is estimated that over 60% of online communities fail to thrive. Failure can mean a number of different things to the business. failed community often does more damage to the brand reputation than no community at all. MORE >>