Connecting through Content

If the major characteristic of Web 1.0 is to connect people to content, than Web 2.0 allows people to connect with other people. Web 3.0 connects content to people, and Pearltrees is a great way to see how this works.

Update on Adobe Connect

I had not talked with Adobe for a year or so, and thought it was time. So I got Peter Ryce (product manager) on the phone and got caught up. Adobe has increased their head count in India which was part of their long term plan to keep a tool management in one geogrpahic region, so tools like Adobe Presenter are managed outof India, while Connect is still managed in San Jose.

Site down for 4 days

For those of you that visit this site regularly, the site was down from Saturday until Tuesday.  Not for any reason we were notified about, but because of a fire inspection at the data center where our server is.  Someone mistakenly turned on the fire retardent system, which wiped out quite a few servers. Those that wre not wiped out were locked down.  The failover back-up did not work, and so we were without service.

NewWoW Symposium on Work in 2020

I spent the last 2.5 days at the NewWoW bi-annual symposium.  The topic for this symposium
was on what work would look like in the year 2020 (less than 10 years away).  We included
an assumption that gas at that time was $20/gallon.  We initially worked with 3 company
models:

CASTing Content in Collaboration Networks

In earlier posts, we discussed the Fundamental Differences between Collaboration and Social Networks, and Objectives of Players in Collaboration Networks. We offer here a model for leveraging content in collaboration networks, CAST: Create, Aggregate, Segment and Target.

Connecting for Collaboration via Social Media?

I recognize that executives recoil at the term “social media” with visions of unproductive activities on such sites as Facebook, Myspace and Twitter, all the while risking the enterprise security and compliance. I prefer to use the term collaboration networks regardless of the media or means they use, which clarifies the purpose in the context of enterprise investments, expectations and policies.

Objectives of Players in Collaboration Networks

We identify at least four players or stakeholders in collaborations networks: Enterprise, Customer (current and prospective), Employee and Partner. Each player operates in the collaboration network with own objectives, motives and expectations, which are often asymmetric.

Collaboration networks differ from social networks in one fundamental way: collaboration networks focus on creating economic value. We compared collaboration and social networks in an earlier post.

Assessing a Collaborative Prospect

Having someone in a client organization come to you with a collaborative problem often can put one in a tricky situation. When working with Collaborative Strategies clients I have had to develop a number of tools over the years to deal with this sitution.

Musing metrics for collaboration

I was at Lotusphere last week and once again found that the innovation lab was the most interesting part of the show for me. I really enjoyed talking with some of the social software scientists, and had some interesting conversations with smart people that think about this stuff all day. One of the more lengthy conversations I had was about how to determine the value for collaboration.

Collaboration Intensifies; Email Rules

Forrester study of 3700 knowledge workers in the US and Europe on Building the Future of Collaboration concludes that knowledge workers still heavily rely on the e-mail and the telephone to collaborate. Adoption of new technologies and tools is painfully slow. Forrester writes, “respondents hope tomorrow will be similar, but better.”

Key findings of the study are: