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What does ‘safe’ mean these days ? – none of us really know the direction that social media will take next and where our identity will appear. But the same sort of anxiety is being felt across the corporate world in terms of how can we share information quickly and effectively but maintain a boundry […]

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Social interaction online is not very sophisticated. The newsfeed model of conversation has taken over the social web, from Facebook to Twitter to FriendFeed to MySpace, but by itself it doesn’t serve us very well. That’s where the creation of groups of sources comes in. Various services have different ways for users to separate their […]

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Communities of Practice: are defined as : ‘the process of social learning that occurs and shared sociocultural practices that emerge and evolve when people who have common goals interact as they strive towards those goals’. (Wikipedia) There does not seem be in any doubt – our economy and that of the entire globe is going […]

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If you think the concept of collaborative intelligence is irrelevant – check out this video that mixes history with speculation about arguably the most collaboratively intelligent business on earth – Google.

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‘We live in a era of intense conflict and massive institutional failures, a time of painful endings and of hopeful beginnings. It is a time that feels as if something profound is shifting and dying while something else, as the playwright and Czech president, Vaclav Havel, put it, wants to be born: “I think there […]

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‘Several researchers testing bacterial adaptivity have tormented colonies with problems so overwhelming that they dwarf any individual bacterium’s solo computational powers. For example, experimenters have taken a community of the intestine-dwelling bacteria Escherichia coli away from the cuisine it normally eats and offered it only salicin – a pain-reliever squeezed from the bark of willow […]

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‘Competitive Success Depends on Enablement‘ doesn’t specifically mention Collaborative Intelligence but the concept of spreading ‘enablement’ throughout the team structure certainly could also be a description of how CQ is developed within business. (from the article) ‘Among the conclusions the study reaches are: The more a company empowers its employees to make decisions, the more […]

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When we think of Collaborative Intelligence in action one of the things that comes to mind is Wikipedia. With a reliability that compares favorably with the Encyclopedia Britannica, Wikipedia is championed as the intelligence of the crowd, made available to the crowd. An interesting post by Chris Wilson at ‘Slate’ takes a slightly different view: […]

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The sea quirt provides a cautionary tale – when it is born, it floats through the open oceans seeking a place to make its home. Once the sea quirt finds a solid piece of ocean floor to attach itself to, it does a peculiar thing. The sea squirt eats its brain. Having achieved its objective, […]

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