In his presentation on The Landscape of Collective Intelligence, he comes up with four characteristics of design patterns (or genes, as he calls them): What (strategy), Who (staffing), How (structure & process), & Why (incentives/alignment).  This is a really nice systematic breakdown into patterns tied to real examples. MORE >>

Excellent lessons and a wealth of references are included in this paper, Changing Homeland Security: Shape Patterns, Not Programs which is applicable to a wide and sundry audience. We set up places to eat, a site for crafts, a tent for shelter and rest, a station for music, and a space for art. Singers wandered and told stories. MORE >>

I'm assuming this will get reblogged by many other's, but the ideas Andrew McAfee mentions in Toward a Pattern Language for Enterprise 2.0 He applies the ideas of Pattern Language (which is new to me) to the differences between Enterprise 2.0 Have a peek at the couple dozen patterns that Andrew proposes. are interesting to me. MORE >>

While social networking is seen as an activity dominated by younger generations, new research shows Baby Boomers are getting into  the game as well.  At least, the younger cohorts of Baby Boomers — the ones that missed Woodstock because it would have taken them way past their bedtimes. Fifty-five percent of online GJers, versus 45% of GenXers.)  MORE >>

Collaborative Thinking Perceptions on collaboration and social software by Mike Gotta « What A Yahoo! Tag Cloud: 2008 State Of The Union Tag Cloud: 2007 State Of The Union And the credit goes to: Last year’s 2007 State of the Union Tag Cloud was such a hit, I decided to follow up again this year. Your comment has not yet been posted. Trust Us. MORE >>