March 2008 archives

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March 22, 2008 by Patti

Explaining Collective Intelligence - Haiku may be the only way to go

I’ve been pondering a recent McAfee post, “Explaining my Fondness for Explicit Content” and have blogged on this in TheAppGap, but I was so tickled by his references to definitions by Kim Rachmeler on the topic of “collective intelligence: The network knows what the nodes do not The nodes know nothing. The nodes know all. [...]

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March 13, 2008 by Patti

Networking - Swiftly - to Community 2.0

Kathleen Gilroy recommended me for the Community 2.0 conference and I’m really pleased to be giving a keynote there, “From Networking to Net Work.” I may even have books to sign! I had coffee with Kathleen recently and she filled me in on her new product venture, Swift. It’s all about accelerating the personal networking [...]

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March 13, 2008 by Patti

Social Software Survey

I have been talking on and off with Christian Gray after almost meeting him in person at KMWorld and SLA conferences. He and his colleague Mike Reid have started an Enterprise 2.0 Social Software Research initiative and are fans of my book, Net Work. You can access a survey that they are launching just now [...]

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March 13, 2008 by Patti

Carbon

My friend Jessica Lipnack got started on carbon-neutral collaboration a while back. The idea is to decrease our carbon footprints by traveling to collaborate only when really necessary, for example, when social/cultural cohesion demands it, or when there may be sensitive negotiations. It makes a lot of sense, even if it goes a bit contrary [...]