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.
All in Collaboration
Project Blogs, Email, and Dual Collaboration Channels
Jim MacLennan, a seriously thoughtful corporate IT manager, recently published Update on Blogs as PM Tools - Tales from the Front Lines. There he made the following statements about the challenges of adopting blogs and wikis in support of project management:
Collaborative Decision making 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.
I’ve been looking for ways to describe the different types of collaboration processes that technology can support.
What Should Project Managers Know about Social Media and Social Networking?
I’m a member of the online group SdB+PM Forum, a collective of 825 senior project managers who are also members of the Linkedin professional networking group.
Using Social Networking to Support Local Energy Management and Conservation
Thanks to Brian Magierski via a Twitter message I found out about a ZDNet video interview with Pat Lawicki, the CIO of PG&E in San Francisco. Pat is a former client of mine from when she was the CIO at the energy utility NiSource.
OK, what IS a "project blog," anyway?
I’ve been interviewing technical project managers about their thoughts on the use of blogs as project management tools. Preliminary results are here. One finding is that how you ask the question about blogging and project management makes a big difference in the response.
Presentation: Blogging and Project Management Survey - Preliminary Findings
This presentation is a progress report on the dozen or so interviews I’ve conducted so far in my blogging and project management survey:
Here are selected notes from interviews conducted as part of my project blog survey:
In September of this year Michael Platt, director of Web Architecture Strategy in the architecture strategy group at Microsoft, published Architecting for Happiness. In it he stated:
In Should You Make or Buy Your Social Network? I wrote about some of the technology-related decisions that are needed when an organization adopts online social networking.
If you are thinking of setting up a Facebook or MySpace page to promote your business, brand, association, or agency, you should first read Jeremiah Owyang’s Why You Need to have a Strategy before you make a Facebook Fan Page NOW!
The most interesting statement Forrester’s Charlene Li makes in Google OpenSocial will (hopefully) make social apps more relevant is this:
Phil McKinney’s podcast on Finding and Keeping Innovation Champions got me to thinking about a client project I recently completed. The deliverable included a model for assessing an organization’s readiness to adopt technology-enabled collaboration.
Jeremiah Owyang has an interesting discussion going on over at his blog in The Challenges of Social Media in the Enterprise, why Business and IT need to align.
On October 16, 2007 Matthew Ingram posted Jay’s lessons on news “crowdsourcing”. Ingram described some of the difficulties reported by Jay Rosen in “Assignment Zero,” an experimental attempt to involve “citizen journalists” in creation of a story for Wired.com.
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).
It's unusual for me to be interviewed. I usually do interviews in connection with my own research or my own client work. Over the past month, however, I've been interviewed five different times by five different people:
What department should manage a corporate “social networking” program for generating business leads?
I thought about this while responding to the question posed on Linkedin Answers by Dave Biskner, How would you implement a staff-wide networking program?
A recent editorial in the China Post (online version) titled Outsourcing practice now targeting core jobs in the West comments on what anyone familiar with the business process outsourcing business already knows: high paying service jobs in developed countries are the next target for offshoring, and not just to save money, but to provide quality service.