Three years ago, I had a chance conversation with Terrell Russell, a researcher at the University of North Carolina. That conversation ended up having a profound impact on my thinking. Terrell is doing his dissertation work on something he calls Contextual Authority Tagging. It’s a fancy term for a simple idea: What others say about [...]
Photograph by Isaac Watras.
Collaboration encompasses many things, and I’ve been lucky to have many mentors in all aspects of the field. Most of my fundamental understanding and beliefs about facilitation and creating space came from two people: Jeff Conklin (whom I interviewed in the first episode of this podcast) and Gail Taylor.
For the past 30 [...]
Two important principles of good collaborative tool design are:
Augment patterns of collaborative behavior
Observe how people use your tools, and evolve them accordingly.
These principles sound straightforward, but they are rarely practiced, and I’m always thrilled when I meet people who do practice them. I had the pleasure of meeting one such person at WikiWednesday earlier this [...]
Photograph by Brian Haberer.
Today, we’re launching our newest Sensemaking Series on Wikis, coached by Peter Kaminski. In these tough economic times, collaborating and managing our knowledge is even more critical. You can’t afford not to think about the tools and the training that could improve your business processes.
Wikis are one of those tools. They’ve been [...]
I’ve enjoyed many of Doug Engelbart’s stories over the years, but my all-time favorite is about bike tricks. When he was a child, he and his brother used to challenge the other kids in the neighborhood to see who could do the most advanced tricks. According to Doug, there was always one trick that was [...]
Photograph by Sebastian Bergmann.
This week’s Barnstar is Leslie Hawthorn, geek herder extraordinaire and manager of Google’s Summer of Code program, which pays college students stipends to work on open source projects. Unless you’re a core contributor to an active open source software project, you may not have heard of Leslie, but if you search the [...]
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