A little while ago I talked about not so much groupware, but a middle space, moreso activityware, where you create an object and invite people to add to it. was looking for something where a conversation could revolve around a task object. From the screencast I find IBM’s Activities in tune with human behaviour. Google Wave. MORE >>

On Tuesday I worked with three new communities of practice in a government agency. Each group was quite different but in all of them we talked about the things the groups should do first. promised to send them ideas on conversations they might consider early on. Here is what I have come up with so far. Discussion tables. What others are there? MORE >>

Written by Aliza Sherman. We’ve all learned that good news travels fast online, but bad news travels faster. Now, with social networks, blogs and microblogs, the speed with which bad news can travel online is staggering, as everyone can get in on the conversation almost instantly. My advice is to plan now. Pay attention. Review context. MORE >>

Effective knowledge sharing is what many organizations do not do well, or as Lew Platt past-CEO of Hewlett-Packard said, “if only HP knew what HP knows, we would be three times more productive&#. That’s the key benefit of personal knowledge management, in my opinion. On the Net, chance favours the prepared mind. Many Web 2.0 IT policies. MORE >>

Looking at tools like Google Squared , Google Trends and Wolfram Alpha , it's becoming increasingly clear to me that one of the key challenges we have before us is learning how to ask questions. And not just any question, but the RIGHT questions. 4-year old does a great job of asking question, but by the time he gets out of 2nd grade, not so much. MORE >>