Collaboration tools are popping up like gophers on a spring day. The latest tool to emerge that has caught my attention is SwarmTeams. From their site: The Community Engagement Tool – inspired by nature. Discover how you can enlist your key audiences – consumers, fans, citizens, staff, members or delegates – and transform them into […]

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Part of developing our collaborative intelligence is increasing our ability to pull the right kind of information towards us. Visiting the right blogs is an excellent way to remain at least ‘on the curve’ – it’s getting increasingly difficult to actually get ahead of it. BlogRovR is a great way to collect all your favorite […]

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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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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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Unless you’ve been living under a rock you will have already heard some sort of reference to ‘Second Life‘. The site that allows you to create an avatar, or Second Life. This one is virtual and doesn’t , of course, come with the same restrictions your present physical life has. A good thing in some […]

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Everyone has noticed the anxiety of ‘information overload’. I have even experienced ‘information under-load’ – the feeling that I have become unplugged from the flow of what’s going on. However overload is much more common.  In Chris Anderson’s ‘The Long Tail’ (p116) he references Sturgeon’s Law which states that “ninety per cent of everything is crud” – […]

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I had known about this for a while and forgot to mention it  – it is an event I would have given my right arm to attend – Boosting Our Collective Intelligence: Getting Smarter Together – if you have visited this link you will see that exciting things are already happening in the area of Collective Intelligence in […]

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I have just become aware of a great new resource for those of us who want to be able to set up a blog very quickly. This morning I set up a blog at Tumblr and was up and running in five minutes was going. You can go to my tumblr blog to see what I achieved in those […]

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Welcome to ‘Getting Clever Together’ a blog dedicated to an exploration of ‘Collaborative Intelligence’ , CQ as I call it.

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