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I’ve recently signed on as a full time employee of a small start-up, ending a 6 year consulting practice. There were many aspects of the company and product that were compelling for me, but also intriguing was the idea of being part of a remote workforce.
The company has team members in New York, Seattle, [...]

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Library Journal has an interesting review of social knowledge sharing tools in a recent article entitled 2.0 for Readers. The article focuses on the “RA,” or Reader’s Advisory services which include reader and library staff notes, reviews and overviews of books in the stacks, making the information librarian that much more prepared to help patrons [...]

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Good article by Bill Roberts in CIO two weeks back, and the first line says it all:
New tools can help, but collaboration is still about culture.
Roberts looks at a number of companies that are trying to introduce more collaborative tools such as wikis and blogs, who’s finding the process a success and who’s not and [...]

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It’s said that “employees don’t leave their companies, they leave their boss.” Wayne Hochwarter decided to dig a little deeper and find out if it was true.  He polled 700 employees regarding their direct supervisors and what he found was disturbing:

31%  of respondents reported that their supervisor gave them the “silent treatment” in the past [...]

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Elsua comments on an article from the BBC entitled Facebook “costs businesses dear.” His point is that the people doing the study are looking at the wrong thing–social networking tools–instead of looking at the big waste of time for most knowledge workers: finding useful, relevant information in internal databases.
Here, here!
I would add to this [...]

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When wikis were first making headlines a while ago, I saw them as the golden promise: the answer to real knowledge transfer among far flung teams that most KM systems just couldn’t touch.  I still think wikis are amazing and offer that elusive collaborative networking possibility that’s missing in other applications.  In my mind, global [...]

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There’s a bit of talk right now about a new study from KPMG about Enterprise 2.0–the title pretty much tells it all: Fad or Future.  I agree with Wirearchy that most of the report seems amazingly shallow, and I’ll go one step further: dated.  They’re still pointing to Dresdner Kleinwort, German banking company, as the [...]

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The Annoyed Librarian (aka AL) is a wicked funny blog covering the amazing array of collegiate activities, special emphasis on library inanities. Her recent post, A Librarian’s Anti-2.0 Manifesto, is especially caustic…and entertaining.
Her complaint (rant?) centers around an article in American Librarian, the other AL, entitled Librarian’s 2.0 Manifesto. Can’t link to the [...]

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I wanted to point out a post by Renee Fox on Awareness’s site–it is so spot-on as to become a golden rule.  Renee, can I use the tag line, “The architecture of participation is baked into the architecture of the software” in my sig block?
It’s a mistake to think Web 2.0 is all [...]

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When I first worked at Amazon a long time ago, in the high heady days of the bubble, we were all housed in one building on 1st ave near skid row in Seattle.  It was a great time to be there, even if the neighborhood was a little sketchy.  One of the best aspects of [...]

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