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Nancy White draws our attention to some interesting metaphors a startup called Socialtext uses to talk about virtual collaboration: * Socialtext — the building and garden* …

I remember, while working at IBM, that only the people ‘in the know’ had internal blogs. And those in the know were the thousands of technical …

One doesn’t implement communities of practice nor create them by management edict. Rather they require the right conditions to grow. Management’s role is to make …

In the early 1900s a French physicist named Bénard conducted an experiment which is widely quoted in complexity literature due to its neat demonstration of self-organisation and …

I’m re-reading Karl Weick’s Sensemaking in Organizations and I thought this idea is worth keeping in mind. When facing conflicting and voluminous information avoid gathering more. …

Blogging seems to have taken a back seat in the last couple of weeks. I was in Auckland last week helping a law firm with …

On my walk with Darren this morning I was being the proud parent recounting last week’s parent-teacher night and telling him how well my eldest daughter …

In a previous post I’ve described the difference between interventions and projects. On the radio this morning (ABC 774) I heard about what I would …

For anyone involved in online communities, this new journal will be a useful resource. The Journal of Community Informatics Community Informatics (CI) is the study …

Denham Grey points us to what appears to be a very interesting book: Michael McMaster’s  The praxis equation. Design principles for intelligent organisation. I Googled …