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Futures of the Internet
Especially if we succeed at work we’re doing through ProjectVRM at Harvard’s Berkman Center.) going on right now on this very subject at Harvard’s Berkman Center, both at its Law Lab and ProjectVRM.) Nearly every digital invention today was created by collaboration over the Net, between people working in different parts of the world. Earlier this year the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and Elon University conducted research toward The Future of the Internet IV , the latest in their survey series , which began with Future of the Internet I – 2004 .
Doc Searls Weblog - Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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[berkman] John Wilbanks on making science generative
He says MIT had to build a $400M building to put scientists into the same room so they’d collaborate. Everyone wants to be in the top ten, especially when the first three are Harvard, Yale and MIT. John Wilbanks of Creative Commons (and head of Science Commons ) is giving a Berkman lunchtime talk about the threats to science’s generativity. He takes Jonathan Zittrain ’s definition of generativity: “a system’s capacity to produced unanticipated change through unfiltered contributions from broad and varied audiences.”
Joho the Blog - Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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Top 10 Tips and Tools for Commuters [Lifehacker Top 10]
Our own Gina, who's been working over the net for more than five years, offers some tips at a Harvard Business Review post on remote email, "checking in" with video chats or teleconferences, and using smart tools to collaborate. U.S. commuters spend an average of 50 minutes in their car each day , and that leaves a lot of room for improvement.
Lifehacker - Saturday, March 6, 2010
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  • The Cloud and Collaboration
    Hope can emerge from new collaborative models based on a new paradigm; science and art will act gracefully to match human nature, and to shape the future of humanity. (80+1, It expresses the idea that the cloud enables us to work together, to collaborate, to forge a new consensus. The response is a "worldwide social network of self-selected people resembling human brain and mind, who will collaborate in Paper written as a contribution to the Ars Electronica symposium on Cloud Intelligence . Let's take as a starting point the discussion of 'cloud intelligence' on the conference
    Half an Hour - Tuesday, June 16, 2009
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  • Bulldoze Your Cubicles for Better Collaboration
    With concerns about knowledge-sharing among older and younger generations of employees skyrocketing, organizations are concluding that impersonal "cube farms" discourage collaboration, stifle employee engagement and, as a result, strangle innovation at the exact time when it's desperately needed. Both generations have strong but similar opinions about the best environment for these interactions to occur: While a private, personal workspace is the top quality of an ideal office, rating 89% among both Boomers and Ys, the demand for communal areas for collaboration follows close behind.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, August 20, 2009
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  • The Evolution of Collaborative Innovation
    For over a dozen years now the concept of collaborative innovation has been at the center of much of my work.  The Internet, and all the social media platforms and applications in its wake have been one of the major enablers of collaborative innovation the world has ever known. Then there is my work with Linux, which started around this time ten years ago when we finalized the decision to launch a company-wide Linux initiative .  Since 2007, Professor It is a common theme in my talks and seminars, as well as in my blog.  This is not surprising given the nature of the initiatives
    Irving Wladawsky-Berger - Thursday, December 24, 2009
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  • How John Chambers Learned to Collaborate at Cisco
    At that moment, Chambers started a reinvention of the company — from a "cowboy" mentality where people worked in silos to a collaborative approach. And Chambers earned the #4 spot on our best-performing CEO ranking, published last month by Harvard Business Review . Chambers created the following 5 pillars to drive collaboration, an approach we can all learn from. In 2001, as the dot.com boom turned to bust, CEO John Chambers of Cisco saw a massive $460 billion of Cisco's overall stock market value evaporate before his eyes. Game over?
    HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, March 4, 2010
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  • Preventing the Terrorist Attack: Massive Failure in Collaboration
    This is a massive failure of collaboration among intelligence and governmental officials. In my book Collaboration , I analyzed the collaboration failure among the CIA, the FBI, and other agencies prior to 9/11. Two barriers to collaboration stood out: We have witnessed yet another terrorist attacking a plane. On Christmas Day, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, tried to blow up Northwest Flight 253 as it was about to land in Detroit on its way from Amsterdam .
    HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, December 31, 2009
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  • Collaboration Platform PBWorks Gets A Real-Time Makeover
    Startup PBWorks, which was formally known as PBwiki, specializes in helping businesses, non-profits, and educational institutions collaborate via wikis. Today, PBworks is entering the stream by adding real-time functionality and voice collaboration within the application. PBWorks is now upgrading its collaboration features by adding a the ability for users to share a PBworks editing session. The startup has steadily added innovative, real-time features to its platform, most recently integrating Twitter-like microblogging. PBWorks is adding four new features to its
    TechCrunch - Monday, November 2, 2009
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  • Does Repeat Collaboration Really Kill Creativity?
    So why are executives consistently told by researchers that repeated collaboration smothers creativity? Very soon after they started collaborating, John Lennon and Paul McCartney became a well-oiled innovation machine. "Every In fact, a single prior collaboration is enough to limit a group's creative results the next time out, they say in "The Effects of Repeat Collaboration on Creative Abrasion" in a recent issue of the Academy of Management Review . Most new-project-development managers would die for a pair of innovators like John Lennon and Paul McCartney, a team that maintained its creativity year after revelatory year.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, March 1, 2010
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  • MindTouch Upgrades Collaborative Platform With Video And Developer-Friendly Tools
    Opensource wiki developer Mindtouch today has launched several new features in its opensource, wiki-like collaboration platform for enterprises. Customers include Mozilla, Microsoft, Intel, Intuit, The Washington Post, US Army, EMC, Harvard, Timberland, and The United Nations. MindTouch has partnered with open source video platform Kaltura, to let MindTouch users collaborate, edit, publish and syndicate video within a MindTouch This includes the ability to add video to MindTouch wikis, package applications built in MindTouch for distribution, and stage content on wikis.
    TechCrunch - Wednesday, July 22, 2009
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  • PBworks Integrates Click-To-Call Teleconferencing Into Collaboration Platform
    Startup PBWorks, which was formerly known as PBwiki, specializes in helping businesses, non-profits, and educational institutions collaborate via wikis. Today, PBworks is adding another collaborative feature: PBVoice, which is click-to-call conferencing from within the platform. The beauty of the integration is that the conference calling feature is an extension of the collaboration platform. The startup has been steadily adding real-time features to its platform over the past year, most recently integrating Twitter-like microblogging, tapping into the real-time stream and adding a template store.
    TechCrunch - Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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  • Which Kind of Collaboration Is Right for You?
    In their article for Harvard Business Review , Gary P. Pisano and Roberto Verganti describe four ways to collaborate : "there there are four basic modes of collaboration: a closed and hierarchical network (an elite circle), an open and hierarchical network (an innovation mall), an open and flat network (an innovation community), and a closed and flat network (a consortium)." The The article goes on to describe how to choose the best model and how to manage the
    elearningpost - Monday, December 15, 2008
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