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Nice contrast in showing the classic "long tail" of solitary games (in this case, long tail = death spiral for the game being played) vs. the continuous spike of socially-enabled games.

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Great list of benefits in surfacing the behaviors of team members.

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Interesting premise, nicely described, and slightly above and beyond other "voting-driven" platforms. But what about real decision-making and debate/deliberation-oriented work? And are *all* projects *always* democratically controlled with one vote per person? Lovely idea, except for the projects/work that has to get done, whether anyone particularly wants to do it (financials, shipping rather than adding on to software, etc.).

Anyone using bettermeans or alternatives? What are the pros/cons you've experienced?

From the site:
"We need a new agreement of how we work together. How we make decisions. How we decide on who gets to work on what. And who gets paid what.

Groups of people can work together intelligently, without getting bogged down in endless meetings, or slow decision making. No bossing needed.

Open source software and wikipedia, are just two examples of large groups working together efficiently without fixed heirarchy.

Bettermeans lets you use the same decision-making rules, and self-organizing principles behind open source to run your project."

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A reader mentioned this list of tools - quite the collection. Great to see that iPads and iPhones, as well as other smartphones, and the increasing sophistication of web apps, is driving an explosion of options and competition in the thinking apps world.

"From smart phones to iPads to our various personal computers and data managers, we have all kinds of tools at our disposal to help us collect information for school work, business, personal use, and more. But even though it’s easy to find, that information still needs to be stored, saved and even shared in a way that’s also simplified."

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EtherPad still exists - hosted by Atlas Networks in this case. Preferred the simplicity of EtherPad over Wave, personally.

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Fascinating (and a tad alarming) article abou the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative. It's a global collaborative effort combat a fungus that threatens to wipe out wheat crops - one of the primary sources of food (and revenue) to a good many countries.

This is another case where collaboration is about being social - which is why I'm increasingly despising the social tag - this is harsh reality that needs a REAL, MASSIVE, multipronged, full-on collaborative attack.

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I've said it before - many different types/styles of collaboration. This is light-weight, but that's the point. Faster and easier feedback beats little to no feedback, every time.

"Protonotes are notes that you add to your prototype that allow project team members to discuss system functionality, design, and requirements directly on the prototype. You can think of it like a discussion board/wiki in direct context of your prototype. "

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"E2.0 Meets Gaming - Collaboration Experiment

A recent post on the Jivespace community sparked the flames of this experiment even higher...

I'm planning on running a few experiments to look at connections between collaboration in the enterprise and collaboration via co-op gaming online, specificaly via Xbox 360 and Xbox Live.

Anyone interested in participating, I'm putting together a spreadsheet (below) of Xbox Live IDs, twitter IDs and 3 games - Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: World at War, and Halo 3. Looking to put together as large a co-op team as possible to see how we go about collaborating in-game, and abstract out from there to the enterprise collaboration trends we're constantly researching.

Get the word out - even though I've been using gaming as an enterprise metaphor for roughly 14 years, I haven't taken the next step to dive even more explicitly into what collaboration practices can cross the barriers between consumer gaming and the enterprise."

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A mini-uprising occured when it was announced that Google was acquiring AppJey (makers of EtherPad). With any luck, Wave will take the best of what EtherPad offered, and fold within Wave. Personally, I prefered EtherPad for it's simplicity, speed, and lack of a walled garden/beta/preview - but of course that will change over time as Wave becomes fully public.

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This shows video demos of SAP Gravity (within Google Wave). Fascinating!

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If you haven't seen/heard about the SAP Gravity (lab-only at this time) demo within Google Wave, you really need to read up on this. It is, by far, the most interesting purpose-specific collaboration example I've seen, powered by the underlying "stack" of Google Wave. Interesting implications and powers of "bots" to assist process creation, troubleshooting, etc..

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Ron Miller of FierceContentManagement prodded me for some feedback on the social additions to MOSS 2010 after the launch news at Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, but at the time I didn't have time to meet his publication deadline. This time, in a follow-up interview Ron did with Christian Finn at Microsoft, I had a chance to provide commentary based on our research and client work.

Excerpt:
"Dan Keldsen of Information Architected thinks the social features are bound to be behind the curve, just because of the time it takes to develop a product like SharePoint. "Microsoft is always going to lag behind their smaller and more agile competitors. It's simply the nature of the development cycle for Microsoft. Features that were "locked in" for design 2 years ago are finally going to ship in 2010. In the meantime, smaller competitors such as Box.net, PBWorks, SocialText, Jive as well as Google (via Google Apps, Sites and now Wave...) have been running like the wind to build light-weight platforms with social computing features first and foremost, while SharePoint has this functionality added afterwards, clearly as an after-thought.""

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A reference to our 2.0 Adoption research - Resistance is Real (and always has been, BTW)

"As Enterprise 2.0 and social business technologies work their way through the Hype Cycle, the resistance to change understandably receives more attentions. A 2.0 Adoption Council study proclaims “Resistance is Real”. Culture has always been on the radar screen, now it’s right into the practitioner’s face again."

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Good to see that our work is getting wider play - above and beyond the keynote we had done live at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. Stay tuned for more on this research.

"It should not surprise us that the top issue is resistance to change. Readers of this blog know that business projects of every kind suffer from issues related to poor communication, conflicting agendas across information silos, and related organizational causes of failure.

A recent study from Information Architected and The 2.0 Adoption Council also describes resistance to change as the significant barrier. This compelling slide clearly summarizes that message..."

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Good (and growing) list of Google Wave bots - interesting to see how people are extending wave beyond humans and pure system-to-system mashups, to include realtime bots.

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"Cyn.in is a group collaboration software created by Cynapse, that inter-connects your people with each other and their collective knowledge, seamlessly."

Looks interesting, need to find out more about it. Interesting use of embedded mindmap to make the pitch.

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Interesting hosted collaboration solution, used primarily for rapid feedback on "designer-oriented" content, such as logos, web designs, etc.. Upload comment you'd like feedback on, invite those you want feedback from, they mark it up (overlay) and/or com

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Stumbled onto this solution today - so much of collaboration is about providing a generic "knowledge worker" environment, but there can easily be a need for a more specialized environement. ProtoShare is a website wireframing and prototyping tool, wrapped

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Saw another local Boston KM-oriented bloke, Bill Ives at a recent KM/Law day, where Carl and I kicked off the day on does E2.0 = KM2.0, and the panel that Bill, Jack Vinson, and others who I'm not allowed to name due to the confidentiality of the particip

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Even though I don't code (much) any more, I still like to keep a hand in agile/extreme/pair/* methods, and see what the cool kids are up to. Interesting open source diff/review tool. Idea is to abolish disconnected code review processes (think distributed

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