Mobile. Innovation. Rsa. Teams. Howardrheingold. Designing for Collaboration: Reward and Reputation Systems « Made by Many. Collaboration seen thru many lenses. Is collaboration enough to connect-the-dots? « Product Four. Connecting the dots is what we call the problem of finding various bits of the answer from various people who may not have been aware of the question to begin with.
I described this more deeply in a previous post on the intelligence community’s connect the dots problem: Imagine 10,000 people on 17 teams, working on 100,000 jigsaw puzzles. Now imagine that some of the pieces have been randomly distributed among the other players. Nobody knows how many pieces are in each puzzle. And some pieces may be missing entirely, or fit into multiple puzzles simultaneously. They need a system that will make it possible for people to know what pieces the others have, for the pieces themselves to find the holes they might fit into, and – here’s the odd one – the holes can describe themselves to the pieces. Why do we need to connect dots? Problem solving – I’m working on a problem.
So. What if I had a system that would tell me about things that had to do with hair. Like this: Like Loading... Michael Sampson: Currents: Collaboration Thinking - Recent News (Tuesday, May 4) Comeback Lines to Collaboration Objectors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop. Last year, my friend and colleague Debra Askanase posted her responses to frequently used objections to using social media that she was fielding from clients.
It was a great start to conversations about what fears or misconceptions still exist about using social media in nonprofit organizations. Taking that conversation as a lead, I would love to examine objections and corresponding responses around collaboration (within organizations and across organization/sectors/geographies). Collaboration is one of my focus areas to explore this year so I hope this will be the start to an evolving conversation! What are the objections to collaboration at your organization? Some of the general objections that I've experienced firsthand and know others have heard time and again as well, include: Collaboration is great in theory but doesn't work in practice.
It's incredibly important to define: Collaboration just means more work without any added value. Edwardwhyman.com. Web based collaboration and communication in real time or your own time. 8 Steps to Successful Collaborations « EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing. Developing a Collaboration Capability Requires more than Wishful Thinking. Posted by Shawn Callahan - February 6, 2008Filed in Collaboration The ability to collaborate is becoming an essential capability for innovative organisations (actually, for any organisation).
Imagine getting any big project done without collaborating. Here’s what scientist and Australian of the Year, Fiona Wood, said on Andrew Denton’s Enough Rope TV show about collaboration: “I haven’t got the intellectual capacity or the time or energy to actually manufacture all these pieces of jigsaw, but I know where I can find them. I go and I see amazing science being done, I think, ‘Whoa, can we work together? The trouble is, collaboration is a skill and set of practices we are rarely taught. Establishing a collaboration capability requires someone to foster its development. The role of the collaboration co-ordinator (evangelist, manager, specialist; the title doesn’t really matter) would include: Comments Off. Building a collaborative workplace: Anecdote White Paper. Thanks for your interest in our whitepapers.
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