The Kellogg School of Management devoted its Fall 2012 alumni magazine issue to “The Collaboration Economy” and the school’s commitment to thought leadership within it. Kellogg has LONG been identified with a collaborative approach to the teaching and learning of management skills, so this is an obvious fit. As a loyal alumna who has been
Probably from the dawn of record-keeping, there has been a tension between maintaining written records in highly structured, or relatively unstructured formats. Now that we are having so many conversations in written form, the question looms large in social media. It’s much easier to write in a stream of consciousness fashion than it is to
Elliott and Cushing Anderson recently floated an email about 12 things they wanted to see in a learning system. The first was focus on the learner. What I want to see is a convergence between the way I learn, the way I work collaboratively with others – in other words, I want my online environment
CPsquare, the Community of Practice on Communities of Practice, is doing a month-long exploration of platforms supporting communities of practice, called Long Live the Platform. It’s an interesting exercise. So far, there have been two presentations, one by our own Bill Bruck on Q2’s xPERT eCampus and another by Bob Doyle who has put together
Proposition: The house believes that social networking technologies will bring large [positive] changes to educational methods, in and out of the classroom. So opens this week’s debate in the ongoing series at Economist.com. I find myself in substantial agreement with both Ewan McIntosh’s pro position, and with Michael Bugeja’s con position. The two men have
The old saw suggests that if the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. We’re seeing a lot of that in the social software space. Apparently, now that every corporate executive has a kid on Facebook, more and more companies in the Web2.0, social software space feel the need to
n his October report for the Gartner group, Magic Quadrant for Team Collaboration and Social Software, 2007, Nikos Drakos does a compelling look at the online collaboration, er, social software space. Drakos’ opening line “The collaboration support market is being revitalized, with buyers and sellers looking to add social interaction in the context of broad
Dion Hinchcliffe did a pretty exhaustive survey of the state of enterprise 2.0 a couple of weeks ago. It’s a great read, if only to get a handle on just what Enterprise 2.0 is evolving into in the minds of people who are thinking about it! At the core of Enterprise 2.0 is a paradox:
If the web-displayed email list is the oldest form of Web2.0 technology, the message board is probably the second-most venerable form of the read-write web. For many web denizens, the message board is their first experience with publishing their words in a world-readable place. And though some would like to think this technology too “last
Educause has released their study of Students and Information Technology, 2007. There’s not much startling in this report, which the authors characterize as a detailing of evolution, rather than revolution. More students are using content management systems than ever. More have laptops than ever. Many have complaints about the unhelpfulness of the college help desk,