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Questions to Ask Before Replacing Corporate Email

Questions to Ask Before Replacing Corporate Email

Dennis D. McDonald
Collaboration, , Enterprise 2.0, Expertise Management, Innovation,
This document discusses some of the questions you can ask about your organization’s current use of email and how improvements can be made. Also discussed is email’s impact on the adoption of new tools more suited to supporting workgroups and collaboration such as blogs, wikis, and groupsites for sharing information about people and projects.

Is It Too Late to Reverse the Fragmentation of the Web?

Dennis D. McDonald
Change, Collaboration, DataPortability, Fragmentation, Network Effects, Search, Semantic Web, , , , Software Islands,
One year ago I published Balkanization of the Web - or Just Better Focus? There I expressed concern that the proliferation of specialized search engines — and the indexing to support them — would lead to a more fragmented web. I thought that gaining the benefits of specialization could ultimately reduce the benefits we experience from the nearly universal access to web based contents that we’ve been taking for granted.
Project Management, Social Media, and Defining "Community"

Project Management, Social Media, and Defining "Community"

Dennis D. McDonald
Collaboration, Definitions, Enterprise 2.0, Governance, Mergers & Acquisitions, PMandSM, Project Blog Survey, Project Management, , , Web 2.0
As a continuation of our Conversation about Project Management and Social Media, Lee White in his recent post Project Community states the following: The point here is not that Social Media, as discussed in earlier posts, directly drives efficiencies, but that it can create a community of project stakeholders that are passionate about the successful completion of a project.

Speedbumps on the Way to Creating a Blog Based Micro-Community

Dennis D. McDonald
Blogging, Collaboration, DataPortability, , Grazr, PMandSM, , , , Tagging
Lee White and I recently initiated an experiment, described here, that consists of our writing about a specific topic (project management and social media) on our respective blogs. Lee writes a post on his blog, I respond on my blog, then we combine and display the posts and the comments we receive in a single RSS feed.
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