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22 Apr 08

Building a collaborative workplace

Collaboration in the workplace doesn't need to just be the formal, structured, team-based approach. This whitepaper also described "community collaboration," where people focus on learning rather than tasks and "network collaboration," such as the loose networks formed through social media. Includes a checklist for how collaborative an organizational culture is.

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18 Jul 07

A Wandering Eyre » Archive » Meetings, Meetings Everywhere and Not a Decision in Sight

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Interesting view on one reason people may resist using online tools for meeting and prefer to meet face to face: Collaborating online leaves a trail for accountability and transparency.
- christyinsdesign on 2007-07-18

When you hold a meeting over chat, develop an idea on a wiki, discuss solutions to problems on a discussion board, or collectively edit a document, you leave little traces of the process everywhere. There are transcripts, different versions of documents, and there is an actual record of who made what comment and contributed what material.

In a f2f meeting, we rely on a person to take notes. We all know that Meeting Minutes are nothing more then a list of decisions and action items. Meeting minutes do not reflect the decision process, the tension a topic may have induced, or the crazy idea that got thrown on the table and very quickly was swept under the rug. Meeting minutes are the sanitized version of what really happened. Sometimes, they are so sanitized as to be completely useless to those who were not in attendance.

Conducting committee work on the web can be dirty, it can be chaotic, and, in most instances, it is open for all the world to see. Moving committee work to the web is the picture of radical transparency and that scares people. Big organizations hate admitting failure and process can look like failure.

We have to get over the idea that conducting our work in the open is bad. We have to get over the idea that f2f meetings are the most productive way to work. They are not. They never will be. Get over it already.