40,000 Minds are better than 1: A case analysis of idea management at Bell Canada (Weds 24 Jan, 11:30am-12)
Meaghan McKnight and Rex Lee - BELL SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY
Rex and Meaghan from Bell Canada talked through some pretty exciting Enterprise 2.0 internal projects at Bell Canada. The one that got my attention the most was ID-ah!, […]
Okay, with this, my first post of the year, I am back in the blogosphere
Back in 2003, I studied for 3 months at the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management as an MBA exchange student. In that time, I swapped a course so I could study Knowledge Management at the Michael G. DeGroote’s […]
Does your organization communicate effectively? Drawing from the BBC’s report on an American police force decision to stop using 10-4 and 10-20 type codewords (I was surprised to hear these are incompatible across different counties), I draw a parallel of how wikis can generate the common linguistic ground needed for purposeful communication.
The BBC reported today […]
I met Bryan Watson of EP-Enterprises for a meal about a month ago. Last week Bryan telephoned me to ask if I’d mind re-explaining the relative merits of Wikis compared to Email, Discussion Groups and Blogs.
This is the slide I’d shown him. Based on some notes I’d made a few years back, I’d compiled this […]
Travellers’ groups cheer ‘open skies’ plan
Airline and travellers’ groups are cheering a government plan to open up Canada’s skies to more competition, saying open-skies agreements with more countries will allow them to reach new markets and reduce ticket prices for consumers.
Currently, Canada only has two open-skies agreements, with the United States and Britain, while the […]
Canadian corporations need to experiment with Social Media technologies such as blogs and wikis.
Twopointouch: reports in Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Britain :
A new UK report into customer engagement produced by e-consultancy reveals that UK firms are likely to significantly deepen their commitment to Web 2.0 technologies over coming months. […]
(Rapidly) Emerging Technologies and Knowledge Management
Lightweight new technologies are emerging rapidly. Some have been used by millions of students. As these students enter the workforce and broader social settings, they’ll know how to apply these technologies and their skills to work more efficiently and effectively.
Upcoming.org: KMDI Lecture - Jonathan Grudin, Microsoft Research at Bahen Centre […]
I agree with Rohan: last night’s democamp failed to live up to expectations.The demos
The best demo was indeed Sunir’s demonstration of the Design Bibliography wiki, which had some pretty funky gadgets to support the application-specific workflow. Yet as I’ve said to Sunir before, there are plenty of wikis out there (40 new *wiki*.(com|org|net) sites are […]
It seems to me that there exists many different types of people doing “wiki consulting”. They differ by:
Background/goal:
Some are technologists, doing installs, writing plugins, etc.
Some are cultural anthropologists or statistians employed to provide insight on social interactions
Some are management looking to reduce the costs of running the enterprise
Some are HR types, looking to get better […]
eWeek Wikis Are Alive and Kicking in the Enterprise
By Stan Gibson
November 20, 2006
If you haven’t heard that cry already, chances are you will soon, as the use of wikis in enterprise environments spreads like wildfire.
Proliferating virally, wiki usage has grown exponentially in recent months, along with other consumer-centric technologies—including blogs, podcasts and RSS—that have […]
