Project Management 2.0: It’s not about the tools

Posted on May 31, 2008 by Stephan

Looks like flooding our colleagues with information about new ways of working together is showing effect. More and more of them are asking for help to improve the way they share information and to take down the email and network drive silos we have been building up over the years.
Several projects are trying to deal [...]

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Taking del.icio.us for granted

Posted on May 21, 2008 by Pete Shelton

Thanks to Chris Addison’s teachings and some serious futzing on my own, I’ve been able to learn over the past year and a half about many of the things del.icio.us can do. Namely, it can help you create an online database of your favorite resources, generate collaborative lists, share links with other del.icio.us users, and [...]

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Crafting an Intranet 2.0: If you build it, will they come?

Posted on April 11, 2008 by Pete Shelton

First, a disclaimer: we haven’t built anything yet. Unlike other posts, I can’t share any examples of what we’ve done so far toward building a collaborative intranet since we still are very much in the planning phase. That being said, however, I think it’s still an opportune moment to reflect on some lessons learned and [...]

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The mobile revolution starts now?

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Pete Shelton

In spite of the recent hype surrounding the iPhone and Gphone, I have serious doubts that mobile phones will become the primary access point to the web anytime soon. According to a recent study by the Pew & American Life Project, 58% of adult Americans have used a mobile phone or PDA for what they [...]

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eldiscommunity offers groups web2 spaces

Posted on January 23, 2008 by Stephan

The information sharing platform Eldis has started eldiscommunity where groups can create spaces for information sharing and dialogue including discussion forums and blogs.  To make it more accessible for people with poor internet connection the site can also be view in low-band-width mode.
There are already quite a number of groups among which a blog of [...]

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Why is my neighborhood in the twitter village not growing?

Posted on January 20, 2008 by Stephan

Many things have been written about twitter, what it does, different ways one can use it, what users get out of it, and if it can serve organizations. Several blog posts (for example here, here, here and here) are pointing out the utility twitter can have for non-profits and, recently, the post Twitter is [...]

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Another Starter Move: Social Bookmarking

Posted on January 17, 2008 by Stephan

After blogging about Chris Brogan’s 5 starter moves to engage with social media yesterday, I started preparing a session on collaboration tools for our division retreat, and realized that he had not talked about social bookmarking.
Promoting the use of online bookmarking services (such as del.icio.us) is in my opinion another good way to introduce people [...]

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How to start using social media tips

Posted on January 16, 2008 by Stephan

Two days ago Chris Brogan finished a series of 5 posts on tips of how organizations can start to use social media. After starting with a introductory post he talked about Listening, Blogging, Audio and Video, and Social Networks like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.
To me this series presents a great starting point for those curious [...]

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