The way I see it, collaboration is the antithesis of winning. Players in a game can be focused in terminating the game by winning or by declaring once side as the loser. In collaboration, all players are focused intently in keeping the game going.
Wikipedia is indeed a finite game, but has embodied many traits of an infinite game. [...]
The way work gets done is by people working with people, “bouncing ideas” off each other, tapping into each other’s expertise, leveraging each other’s knowledge and insights, re-purposing each other’s output. Any collaboration solution should give a rich picture of the people behind the work. It should connect people and give them a full picture of each other. When people have the context of the who, what, when, where and why of the others they are working with, it builds the level of trust they have in each other and results in greater teamwork and higher quality work.
From Seth Godin’s blog:
Mass marketing created an angry, selfish beast, a hungry one, one that demanded to be fed. So marketers fed it, they fed it with any ads they could find. And when they couldn’t find ads, they spammed us. All in the name of commerce, all because they’re doing their job.
Things have changed, far more dramatically than most people realize. Not just what marketers buy, but what the media does all day, and what marketers build, and what we get paid to do and what and where we pay attention…
Elgg, is an open source social network engine providing out-of-the box functionality for deploying social-aware applications in education, business, non-profit and other environments.
Elgg runs on Apache, PHP and MySQL - the same open source platform that the majority of web applications are written in.
Geoff Livingston asserts: “I just wonder if most companies will ever get it, that organizational social media really is about peering with their customers, partners and employees, rather than broadcasting a cleverly disguised ad or white paper in the form “user generated content” or a “blog post.””
Josh Bernoff’s secret weapon: the “Social Technographics Ladder , a technique presented in chapter 3 of Groundswell.
Social Media Technorati leads