“Being frightened of being wrong” is how Ken Robinson describes one of our most challenging hang-overs from our ‘education’. I remember well the class room pressure to be ‘right’ even to this day and I left school…umm.. a few years ago. Intuitively we know that being wrong is part of life and that, on reflection, […]

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Peter Block has just recently released a new book: ‘Community- The Structure of Belonging‘. Social capital isn’t the sexiest topic on the planet but the events of the last few weeks (i.e. the so called ‘global crisis’) have brought a number of things into better focus. One of them is the level of connection in […]

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Tripped over this in ‘After God’ by Professor Mark C. Taylor. In terms of collaborative intelligence the value of this small piece is self-evident. The most pressing dangers we currently face result from the conflict of competing absolutisms that divide the world between oppositions that can never be mediated. Four governing principles should thus guide […]

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My copy of Clay Shirky‘s ‘Here Comes Everybody‘ is already dog-eared and marked up with high-lighter and post-it notes. A book for the times we live in – at least if you live even a little on the web. How to get people participating in groups on-line, and how that experience can be enhanced are […]

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A brief video explaining what Collaborative Intelligence is and how it can be used to enable groups and teams to be more effective.

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Duane Elgin expands on the topic of the ‘Living Universe’ and what how recognizing the universe as ‘alive’ can have profound effects.    

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‘Collaborate online to generate great information and profits’ is a succinct list of things we can do to increase our ‘collaborative capacity’ on the web. I particularly enjoyed the number of hyperlinks to other information sources. One of the ideas that particularly caught my eye was engaging volunteer moderators for a forum. This idea really […]

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Office politics are becoming a major stumbling block to business effectiveness. According to a recent study (Ipsos-Reid – Nov. 2007) instances where office politics obstructed productivity have almost double in the last ten years ago. Although this study was carried out in Canada similar results were discovered in the UK business sector. We can only […]

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Made famous by the Wikipedia – wikis are becoming much more than just a way to store information. Socialtext has brought the wiki mainstream with the addition of two new features. Increasingly organizations and business are having to adapt to the huge increase in information they must manage. Enterprise wikis are proving to be very […]

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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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