Tuesday, April 12, 2005
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Innovation with 'lightweight tools' for collaboration at Google
"describes how Google is using simple, Web-based collaboration tools to drive innovation among communities of practice. Google's product development team uses collaborative Web pages to enable team members to quickly and easily post reports, updates and other snippets of pertinent project information to a common knowledge base."
Google's Exponential Returns
"There is more to Google than useful, simple and powerful products. In the end there will be less Harvard business school cases about its product than its organization. At Etech, first employee Craig Silverstein discussed Google's product development process and the systems that support it. What's different is the use of smaller organizational units (groups of 3 on average) supported by lightweight inter-group communication with a culture of sharing."
Google eats own Pyra dog food
"Weblog designed to foster internal communication"
Evan Williams - Pyra Labs Founder
"Co-founded and CEO'ed Pyra Labs, the creators of Blogger, in 1999, before coming to Google (with Blogger) in 2003. "
Craig Silverstein
"Craig is Director of Technology at Google"
COMMUNITY-SHARED WEB PAGES
"The current state of the web is strongly biased towards reading previously authored documents. Changes and additions to Web pages are solely the purview of the original author. Sparrow Web promotes a different genre of web page: the community-shared page. Like any web page, a community-shared page is originally crafted by a single author, who defines the initial content and scope of the document. But unlike other web pages, a community-shared page can be modified or added to by any interested contributor, and the barriers for doing so are lessened by allowing changes to be made in a lightweight manner. Community-shared pages increase the collaborative capability of the web. "
Innovation with "lightweight tools" for collaboration at Google
Why New Ideas are Both Disruptive and Necessary
"Management consultant Laurence Prusak on Idea Practitioners, organizational fads, and where to look for new ideas (surprise! It's not on the Net)."
Communities, the sweet spot of radical business innovation
"Indeed, many successful companies are finding that relinquishing some control — specifically by creating the conditions that enable employees to self-organize in virtual communities — is an effective strategy for responding to market pressures."
"Aren't communities just greatly enhanced projects?"
"Working with a client organization on the design of a constellation of virtual communities, we run into the question of "what kind of communities."
Etienne Wenger
"I am an independent thinker, researcher, consultant, author, and speaker. I am mostly known for my work on communities of practice, though I consider myself a social learning theorist more generally."
http://www.cpsquare.org/
"...the community of practice on communities of practice. "
Smarter, Simpler Social
"An introduction to online social software methodology"
CustomerVision 3.0 Enhances Business Solutions with Enterprise Wiki Technology
"CustomerVision Delivers Next Generation Business Solutions for Sales, Training, Application Support and Business Collaboration. "
JotSpot Unveils New Wiki Appliance for Enterprise Workgroups
"PALO ALTO, Calif., March 21 /PRNewswire/ -- JotSpot, the first application wiki company, today announced "JotBox," a new enterprise appliance that offers all of the features of a JotSpot wiki, but resides behind a corporate firewall. The JotBox is designed to easily plug into existing corporate networks, offering a simple, no-hassle solution for enterprise workgroup needs. The appliance is available today in limited quantities."
Wiki Providers Eye the Enterprise
"The two leading wiki providers are retooling their services in an attempt to attract larger enterprises to using the still-emerging form of online collaboration. "
Year of the enterprise Wiki
"Lightweight Web collaboration gets down to business"
Social Software and the Politics of Groups from Clay Shirky
"Social software, software that supports group communications, includes everything from the simple CC: line in email to vast 3D game worlds like EverQuest, and it can be as undirected as a chat room, or as task-oriented as a wiki (a collaborative workspace). Because there are so many patterns of group interaction, social software is a much larger category than things like groupware or online communities -- though it includes those things, not all group communication is business-focused or communal. One of the few commonalities in this big category is that social software is unique to the internet in a way that software for broadcast or personal communications are not. "
Workspace: PC Forum Eventspace
IntroNetworks
"Gated communities for people who share interests"
LudiCorp
The folks behind Flickr
Politics of Groups
Grid Computing
Social Groups
Micropayments
Social File Sharing
Semantic Syllogisms
Situated Software
Nomic World
Flaming and the Design of Social Software
