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Call: WikiSym 2008

Thomas N. Burg — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:38:03 +0000

You are into wikis, collaboration, wisdom of the crowds, enterprise 2.0 then head over to WikiSym2008

The Symposium offers a rigorously reviewed research paper track, as well as plenty of space for practitioner reports, discussion of work in progress, demonstrations, tutorials, and informal but lively OpenSpace and WikiFest sessions.

Submit your proposals, workshops etc ’til May 3rd. The event itself will take place from Sep 8-10, 2008 in Porto. Mark Bernstein, hypertext legend and maker of Tinderbox is program chair. (disclosure: I’m on the program committee).
->WikiSymBlog

Tags: collaboration, Conferences, Travel, wiki, wikisym

Why Twitter

Thomas N. Burg — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:21:10 +0000

Tom Raftery is posing the question about the use of Twitter or better he is clarifying why Twitter helps him to have a better (more productive and fun) live

I’d like to second and emphasize Tom’s conclusion’s below. Only recently I was wondering myself about the use of that new tool and publishing format (my boss and fellows are still doing that).

Blame it on the Twitter!: “And because of the still early nature of the application, it is possible to very quickly build up a powerful network of highly influential users who are only too happy to converse with you. I have met several people recently who, up until now I only knew through Twitter.

Another way I use Twitter is I often pose questions to Twitter and get great replies back from highly qualified people in minutes.”
Tom Raftery’s Social Media

Instead of asking to much and to long I started doing it. And only a few days ago – some kind of proof of concept – I found a great Twitter fellow who’ll help out with a project. It was a matter of minutes: Asking on Twitter -> Direct reply -> Direct reply -> switch to Skype -> agreement to do that project -> we are now on Basecamp

Twitter serves as a social pinging service among connected peers. Content comes second. First we make sure we are on the same planet and alive.

BTW: my TwitterID.

Tags: collaboration, communication, recruiting, socialmedia, twitter

Links for September 27th

Thomas N. Burg — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:30:22 +0000

These are my links for September 27th:

European Venture Market –
flauntR – “flauntR is a free online photo editor and effects software” – Printing service attached
SocialMedia.net –
HereOrThere launches social travel offensive –
SwooDoo –
Deki Wiki – MindTouch – Impressive feature set!

Tags: blog, Business, collaboration, flash, flights, images, Open Source, productivity, socialmedia, Travel, venture-capital, wiki

We shall overcome

Thomas N. Burg — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:19:26 +0000

Sounds a little like that old tune to me. Can anybody of the executives listen and support the daily work of their employees (not only) against the IT-staff that established their very own benefices.

Panelists say IT can’t stop Web 2.0 | InfoWorld | News: “IT may continue to try to prevent other [tag-tec]Web 2.0[/tag-tec] applications from getting into corporate users’ hands, but the effort will be equally as futile, according to Glotzbach, who said that workers are moving from individual productivity (t d f) to team productivity.
‘Users want tools to get their job done,’ Glotzbach said.”

“People who horde information are the problem. People who share information are rewarded,” Glotzbach said.

Update: here is a video of that talk.

[tags]business[/tags] [tags]it[/tags] [tags]collaboration[/tags]

Tags: Business, collaboration, IT