September 2010
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January 2010
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ZOTERO for groups
Finally its here - a group library function on Zotero! http://www.zotero.org/groups/
Zotero is great for collaborative working - I’ve been using it to…
Store, tag and categorise anything interesting I find online from inside my browser
which I can then use to produce chicago style references for my research (fantastic).
I use it more than Delicious to store my finds as I prefer the...
December 2009
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8 Things you should know about collaboration →
Here are 8 points to consider when talking collaboration. Don’t miss #3. From one collaboration ninja to another, I couldn’t agree more.
November 2009
3 posts
tripped on my timeline...
Just a heads up for those wanting to find a way to make a decent timeline with special thanks to the simile project at MIT.
I’ve been desperately looking for a way to present my project’s ‘work’, that enables me to draw in relationships between things going on. For example, Deliverable 11 - a Synthesis report on sustainability literacy is due in February, yet is reliant...
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to wiki or not to wiki
To date- the universally agreed upon gold standard for collaborative, web-enabled technology is the wiki. This is largely due to its successful role powering Wikipedia. Consequentially, whenever someone hopes to harness the wisdom of distributed individuals to develop an idea or resource, they think “I know- let’s set up a wiki!”
However I’m not sure I buy it. I’ve...
October 2009
3 posts
Round of applause for my mobile office
Lets hear it for my office! I work (for love or money depending) from Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and the UK. I’m sat now in Canteen in Bristol enjoying a fab lunch, using their free wifi and toasting my flexible, enjoyable and freeing way to ‘work’. So what are the bare essentials of my mobile office?
Google mail for one has saved my bacon allowing me to view my mail everywhere, even offline, and...
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Collective Intelligence for Blog Action Day
Today, October 15th, is Blog Action Day. This is a global effort to raise awareness around climate change. Coincidentally, it falls just days before October 24th- a collective day of action organized by 350.org to bring awareness to the supreme importance of the number 350. These are both examples of large, loosely connected groups distributed across the globe, coordinating their efforts over the...
September 2009
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Tell me a story
and I’ll show you collaboration at its best! I’m sure we’ve all experienced in our off-line lives (gasp!) just how collaborative an experience story telling can be. I was particularly struck by the collaborative power of stories this past year when I gathered with 18 of my peers to share tales of the economic crisis (as part of the We20 movement ). We each listened, we each...
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Ninja Convention: October 8th-11th
What do you get when you bring together Thomas Malone (head of the MIT center for collective intelligence) Peter Gloor (author of Swarm Creativity and Coolhunting) and heaps of innovative designers from the Savannah College of Art and Design? Why the best place on earth to learn to be a collaboration ninja! I will be attending the first annual conference on Collaborative Innovation Networks, sword...
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CONVERGE project - Collaborating towards fair...
Last week saw the launch of the CONVERGE project in Budapest where the project team is meeting today and tomorrow to formalise the start of efforts in this research. The projects full title: Rethinking globalisation in the light of Contraction and CONVERGEnce hints at the visionary research to be undertaken by this project. Awarded close to 1.4 million Euros for 4 years work, the project is the...
August 2009
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Muscicians collaborate with fuzzy vision
Collaboration- the word on the street, everyone’s talking about it, but not everyone knows what it means… sometimes what they really mean is partnership, information sharing or even remixing. I usually like to look on it as working together towards a shared vision. Its that shared vision that makes it a collaboration rather than one of these other terms.
I’ve been working on...
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Can and should we measure collaboration? →
Naumi Haque reflects on how to measure a succesful collaboration. This will inevitably come up as more and more corporations realize the neccesity of collaboration and need metrics to measure its success. What do you think of Naumi Haque’s box score?
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“Even the lamest page can be saved by collaboration.”
– Philip Greenspun