2483 Articles match "Collaboration"

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Mix Up the Workweek by Setting Your Own “20-Percent Time”
37signals started as a web design firm , but couldn’t find collaboration tools suited to their needs so they created Basecamp . Many large companies have policies that allow employees to spend some of their time working on their own projects. These programs are often used to entice high-caliber job applicants, as well as encourage innovation.
Web Worker Daily - Friday, March 12, 2010
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HR Series – Performance Management in an Enterprise 2.0 Context
of the social computing / collaboration platforms out there have features and functionality designed to offer support to gathering and processing information about peoples’ performance. I expect that this aspect will become more important as social computing and collaboration continue to grow and spread. . Let’s further assume that many of them are at least semi-successful, First … no answers here.  Only Only questions and ideas based on past HR experience, observations and some familiarity with interactive and participative dynamics online.
The FASTForward Blog - Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Conference Explores Enterprise Adoption of Search and Collaboration
I just got back from the FASTforward event held in New York City, in which more than 400 attendees were treated to a range of applications and new thinking around the way organizations collaborate.  He discussed the growing interconnectness between search — offered via internal networks as well as through customer-facing portals — and collaboration and real-time customer experiences. Bjorn Olstad, distinguished engineer for Microsoft and CTO of FAST, kicked off the proceedings with an overview of the latest FAST search functionality, available as part of Microsoft SharePoint or as a standalone solution.
The FASTForward Blog - Thursday, March 11, 2010
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  • Profiting from Collaboration
    This is terrific example of purposeful collaboration delivering results. The opportunity to collaborate generated many tangible benefits for both companies. And that's not surprising because a collaboration experience can improve the level of conversation, energise teams and have a positive impact on the bottomline. Google and P&G are both known for their innovation capabilities and strict internal policy. Driven by market forces, they made an exception.
    Anecdote - Tuesday, January 20, 2009
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  • Collaboration Tools
    As I mentioned in Real-Time Collaborative Editing , I had a fantastic experience participating in group editing of a Mind Map of collaborative tools during a session at Learn Trends. I would expect the document to continue to grow and change, but thought it would be worth having it available in a text format as well (so I can find it when I need it). Screen-Sharing GoToMeeting ( link ) eBLVD ( link ) ConnectNow ( link ) Microsoft Shared View Crossloop ( link ) Yuuguu ( link )
    elearning Technology - Tuesday, December 2, 2008
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  • When collaboration becomes the way we work
    Google is considered synonymous with innovation. How do they create the conditions for people to do great work? It can't simply be a result of this . I saw Eric Schmidt (CEO of Google) talk on the Nature of Innovation .
    Anecdote - Sunday, November 9, 2008
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  • Getting started with Collaboration tools
    One of the things people find most valuable about our Building a Collaborative Workplace workshop is that it gives them a good solid understanding of what makes collaboration possible and some practical ideas on getting started. Here's a list of 9 collaboration tools you can introduce your colleagues. Most people are web 2.0 savvy.
    Anecdote - Monday, November 10, 2008
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  • Remote Collaboration
    In other words - How do we collaborate together in remote work teams to be as effective or even more effective than a team that works down the hall? Let me admit that I'm likely in over my head when talking about methods and tools for collaboration. At the core, when I look at what a team needs, it's a pretty simple list: Real-time Voice Screen Sharing Document Editing (sometimes) Asynchronous Share / collaborate My primary interest here are the methods and tools that allow us to work better as part of remote work teams. I cannot claim to be an expert, and I feel like
    Work Literacy - Tuesday, January 20, 2009
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  • OpenTeams - Collaborative Innovation for The Entrepreneurial Organization
    In addition to project collaboration , blogging , social networking , community building , and knowledge management , OpenTeams is an innovative initiative development solution where employees collaboratively seed and mature new ideas for additional revenue, productivity, and cost-savings. Unlike normal wikis, which suffer from user apathy and confusion, OpenTeams is intuitive for non-techies to learn and use. This dramatically shrinks the learning curve and ensures adoption while ramping up productivity, payback, and employee engagement.
    openteams.com - Thursday, March 5, 2009
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  • Useful conversations for fledgling CoP
    Tags: Collaboratio On Tuesday I worked with three new communities of practice in a government agency. Each group was quite different but in all of them we talked about the things the groups should do first. I promised to send them ideas on conversations they might consider early on.
    Anecdote - Friday, June 5, 2009
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  • Collaborative Networks vs Social Networks
    During a telephone conversation between us last week Aaron Fulkerson of MindTouch said he was going to pick up on my Collaboration Networks meme, and he has now produced a solid post on this topic. Aaron strategy: piecemeal departmental use of collaboration tools, Aaron takes on the number one issue plaguing widespread adoption of broad Enterprise 2.0
    Collaboration 2.0 - Monday, June 8, 2009
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  • Robertson: Ten tips for succeeding at collaboration
    James Robertson of StepTwo posted his slides for a recent presentation entitled, Ten tips for succeeding at collaboration (with audio). Ten tips for succeeding at collaboration [+ audio] Recognize when collaboration will work . Along with the tips, he includes some background around the ideas he presents. Nice.
    Knowledge Musings - Sunday, August 3, 2008
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  • Use stories to communicate the value of collaboration
    In the previous two posts ( Shawn's on his forthcoming presentation and Chandni's about collaboration between Google and P&G) have used specific examples to illustrate how collaborative practices can add value to an organisation. In many cases, the value of collaboration is difficult to articulate using numbers. In We (not surprisingly I guess) strongly advocate that organisations systematically identify, collect and communicate their collaboration 'success stories'.
    Anecdote - Wednesday, January 28, 2009
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