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 […]

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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 dialogues, […]

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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 […]

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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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I used to use The Brain years ago to organize ideas for various marketing projects I managed. However the inventor of this slick little tool has taken the game of storing and tracking information to a whole new level. From a press release about their new form of this software : “With the amount of […]

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