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Stewart Mader goes indie

August 14, 2008

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I’m a couple of days behind on the announcement, but here it is…
Stewart Mader, formerly of Atlassian, has now gone independent. He’s using his serious knowledge of wikis to trade as a specialist wiki consultant with his company Grow your Wiki. Stewart’s a great guy and expert on using wikis’ amazing capability to bring information [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 Conference – From the Bottom-Up: Building the 21st Century Intelligence Community

June 10, 2008

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Sean Dennehy and Don Burke, both CIA intelligence analysts, openly discussed the work they are doing (without giving away the detail, obviously) on Intellipedia. Sean was a great, enthusiastic presenter, who was definitely a great choice for the conference – a great walking ad for the intel community.
Built as a multilayered collaborative platform, Intellipedia consists [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 Conference – Implementing Enterprise 2.0: Exploring the Tools and Techniques of Emergent Change

June 10, 2008

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Dion Hincliffe, Founder and CTO of Hinchcliffe and Co, well-known Enterprise 2.0 and Web 2.0 blogger and creator of the Web 2.0 University was the presenter for this session.
Unfortunately, the conference wifi went down at the start of the session, so liveblogging went out the window as an option.
To kick off, Dion encouraged everyone to [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 Conference – Social Computing Platforms: IBM and Microsoft

June 10, 2008

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This is the first of my posts from the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston. I plan to do small, summary style posts with my opinion. I will also provide links that point back to the core content on the conference website.
There’s a backchannel that everyone can participate in, whether or not they are at the [...]

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Wikigroaning and the wisdom of crowds

June 9, 2007

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I’m currently re-reading James Surowiecki’s The Wisdom of Crowds. It’s a must-read for anyone involved in social computing. There are many parallels between the notions explored in the book and the group collaboration exhibited by users of social software from Basecamp (an obvious choice) to Facebook.  While reading this post at Something Awful, I saw [...]

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Wikinomics

November 20, 2006

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Today, encyclopedias, jetliners, operating systems, mutual funds, and many other items are being created by teams numbering in the thousands or even millions. While some leaders fear the heaving growth of these massive online communities, Wikinomics proves this fear is folly. Smart firms can harness collective capability and genius to spur innovation, growth, and success. [...]

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IBM Shortcuts – How to use wikis at work (Part 2)

November 14, 2006

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IBM Shortcuts has posted the second part of their series on using wikis in the workplace. It’s just as good as the first part, which I blogged here.
This week’s segment focuses on getting buy-in and use from the wider workplace, a critical factor in getting traction for these sorts of tools.

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IBM Shortcuts – How to use wikis at work (plus a bonus link)

October 31, 2006

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Over at IBM Shortcuts, Luis Suarez has a great, short (<5 minutes) interview about the usefulness of wikis as a tool for management of business intelligence and collaboration. Do yourself a favor and take the time to listen to it over lunch.
I’m involved in a few projects that are likely to test the wiki [...]

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