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Entries in Expertise Management (35)
How Much do People Need to Understand Technology to Manage It?
Jeremiah Owyang’s post Gen Y Enter Stage Left, Baby Boomers Exit Stage Right got me to wondering how much people should understand about technology in order to manage it in an organization.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Governance, Social Networking, Knowledge Management, Expertise Management, Retirement, Demographics, Social Media, Outsourcing, Software, Knowledge Transfer, Technological Literacy
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In Health Emergencies, One Knowledge Management System Cannot Rule Them All
I received an email commenting on Social Networking and Elsevier’s “Grand Challenge” for Knowledge Enhancement in the Life Sciences. I had suggested that networked access to published health science authors would be useful in emergency situations where there is the need for rapid access to high quality health information from many different sources.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Google, Social Networking, Standards, Knowledge Management, Expertise Management, Tagging, Associations, Peer Review, Social Media, Disaster Response, Homeland Security, Emergency, Libraries, Social Network Portability, DataPortability
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Social Networking and Elsevier's "Grand Challenge" for Knowledge Enhancement in the Life Sciences
Netherlands-based mega-publisher (and former employer) Elsevier BV has issued a grand challenge:
Dennis D. McDonald
in Governance, Social Networking, Publishing, Knowledge Management, Expertise Management, Peer Review, Journals, Social Media, Content Management, Homeland Security, Emergency, Libraries, MySpace, DataPortability, R&D Management, Knowledge Transfer, Internet
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Questions to Ask Before Replacing Corporate Email
This document discusses some of the questions you can ask about your organization’s current use of email and how improvements can be made. Also discussed is email’s impact on the adoption of new tools more suited to supporting workgroups and collaboration such as blogs, wikis, and groupsites for sharing information about people and projects.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Collaboration, Expertise Management, Innovation, Enterprise 2.0, Social Media, Email
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Cognitive Enhancement and Scientific Collaboration, Working Together
About twenty minutes into the January 31 edition of the Nature Podcast Nick Bostrom makes an interesting case for promoting scientific advances by focusing more scientific research on how to enhance scientists’ own thinking processes.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Collaboration, Social Networking, Expertise Management, Social Media, sustainability, Cognitive Enhancement
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Collaborative Decisionmaking in Disaster Response Situations
Professor Murray Turrof recently sent me a draft of a paper that will be presented at the upcoming 5th International ISCRAM Conference in Washington DC in May of 2008.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Governance, Collaboration, Social Networking, Expertise Management, Social Media, Disaster Response, Homeland Security, Emergency, Definitions
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What I'm Learning About Applying Social Media to Disaster Response
I’ve been researching applications of social media and social networking in local disaster response. Here are some of the things I’ve found.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Google, Social Networking, Expertise Management, Social Media, Facebook, Disaster Response, Adoption, Homeland Security, Mobility, Strategy, Emergency, communications, 700 MHz, Social Network Portability, Cell Phones, OpenSocial
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Google OpenSocial, Collaboration, and Expertise Location
The most interesting statement Forrester’s Charlene Li makes in Google OpenSocial will (hopefully) make social apps more relevant is this:
Dennis D. McDonald
in Privacy, Google, Collaboration, Linkedin, Social Networking, Expertise Management, Facebook, Identity, Social Network Portability, Personal Data Ownership, OpenSocial
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Potential Applications of Social Media and Social Networking in Local Disaster Response
People use the tools available to them when a crisis hits. Increasingly these tools include blogs, text messaging, and social networking systems such as Facebook. The use of such communication tools in disaster and emergency situations is evidence of an obvious fact: the people most involved in an emergency are going to communicate about it. The question is, how can those in an official capacity take advantage of these communication channels?
Dennis D. McDonald
in Management Tools, Blogging, Social Networking, Expertise Management, Tagging, Social Media, Technology, Disaster Response, Homeland Security, Emergency, Telecommunications
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Technology-Enabled Collaboration and Information Siloes
James Robertson’s recent post Collaboration tools are anti knowledge sharing? got me thinking about the introduction of technology-enabled collaboration into large organizations. (Thanks to Jack Vinson for bringing this article to my attention via Twitter).
Dennis D. McDonald
in Collaboration, Best Practices, Knowledge Management, Expertise Management, Innovation, Content Management, Adoption
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