ManyOne.net has just come to my attention. It is a very intriguing approach to how to up the ante for collaboration on the Internet. As I explored the site further I discovered that the ManyOne approach really has the potential to bring some ‘civialization’ to cyberspace.
If we consider for a moment that bacteria have been [...]

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I’ve just tripped over a great little tool - Jing - it’s made by the same people that make Camtasia. Collaborating with information can be a challenge sometimes - a tool that enables you to capture all or part of your computer screen can be very handy. This little tool also enable you to capture [...]

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Check out this great resource for collaboration tools.

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I love Bees (brace yourself they are going to try to recruit you!) is an alternate reality game that is a good example of what I would describe as collaborative intelligence. Wired has a great description of what’s going on.
My take on this is that ‘I Love Bees’ is a really great example of how [...]

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An excerpt from ‘The Thin Book of Naming Elephants‘ :
In their book Execution, Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan estimate that 40 percent of an effective leader’s time is spent on people issues. They point out that: “This immense personal commitment is time-consuming and fraught with emotional wear and tear in giving feedback, conducting [...]

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A team that has to work partially or solely electronically - using Internet and telephony based tools are becoming more common. These teams are often made up of individuals living in different time zones and often on different continents. As you can imagine this arrangement brings its own challenges. If distributed work teams have not [...]

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I have been arguing that ‘collaboration’ as a word has become hijacked by the software development community. Yet for collaboration to occur there has to be a spirit of collaborative intelligence present in the human beings using the software. Not many software developers mention much about this dimension of the topic. Maybe because it is [...]

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Whether you are a member of a team or heading it up - tools that enable the building process are invaluable.
Ken Thompson has a great list of techniques or tools that you can use to help your team.

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Anyone interested in how to enhance collaboration inside a team or business will have already tripped over the term ‘Wiki‘. Even those who have little or no interest in ‘collaboration’ will probably have heard of the Wikipedia ( hands up those who haven’t).
Social Text (check out their ‘what’s a wiki?’ link) has been kicking around [...]

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Anyone reading this blog for a while will have realized that I am very curious about how we can ‘get clever together’. There is no doubt that social book-marking is enabling us to do just that. It is one of the aspects of web 2.0 that is so fascinating to a guy who cares about [...]

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