Jon Husband in Wirearchies applies principles of Inspector Lohmann’s building invisible comic community to the blogosphere:
[Inspector Lohmann] explores one of the central reasons why (IMO) blogging and connecting with each other to work at building new relationships is so important now, and why it will grow in importance.
Hierarchies have always worked through the control of […]
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 […]
Great post by Business Two Zero: talking about Management Styles fundementally facilitative of emergence rather than imposing of process, and structure.
However, I was pleased that the first hit was for Kathy Sierra’s piece from earlier in the year. She highlights the emerging management style, influenced by web 2.0 thinking, is more community based, […]
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 […]
Its been a few months since our last TorontoWikiTuesday event. As you can see,by averaging 12 people, we’ve never had tremendous turnouts.
Speaking with Seb Paquet last week I was stunned to hear that Montreal Wiki Night frequently has turnouts exceeding 50 people.
Its clear we need a new strategy. I suspect a pub venue (while mandatory […]
In his post, The relevance of knowledge management today, says about Knowledge Management:
The terminology and tools have substantially moved on, yet the fundamental problems are not new. As such, the wheel does not need to be reinvented, and those who have been in the knowledge management space can apply their expertise with enormous relevance.
Ross Dawson […]
If you know of an organisation in Toronto that needs 2-3 hours a week help formulating strategy, governance and policy, please let me know. A not-for-profit is fine.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Internet’s future in 2020 debated
An interesting article: transparency is generally accepted as an inevitable upward trend with some society backlash from privacy concerns.
The repondents were split over the whether the impact of people’s lives becoming increasingly online, resulting in both less privacy but more transparency, would be a positive […]
Transparency can be viewed as an alternative to explicit communication: with the benefit that individuals don’t have to involve others when looking for information, instead they can probe offline into publically available data about projects and profiles about people.
Teams normally communicate explicitly through the hierarchy in meetings and email: these activities are:
expensive due to […]
Mark Chaikelson sent to me over messenger link to this parody video of George W. Bush singing “Sunday Bloody Sunday” to the UN. Quite aside from it being a masterpiece of video editing it highlights the lengths that the public will go to to draw attention to issues they care about.
The paradigm of social media […]
