Collaboration

Dueling Collaboration Portals

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ November 23, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I noticed an interesting phenomenon this afternoon; we are experimenting with SharePoint as our internal project management / collaboration portal. A nice platform to choose, because it’s popularity is growing, and there are a wide selection of add-on products and development partners ready, willing, and able to help us spend our money to make it [...]

The Power of Paper in Business Communications

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ October 22, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Confucius was wrong – it is good to live in interesting times … I’m deep-diving into a number of projects at work, while juggling a sudden surge in business travel (the majority of my tweets of late). All of the work involves significant change – different tools & process, or reworking process “traditions” that have [...]

Opportunistic Insights from the RSS Stream

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ June 5, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I’ve written about using RSS for internal as well as external information sources. This past week, I found a couple of interesting tidbits in my feed reader (behind the firewall) … Eyes on the Skies: It’s that time of year again; oil price volatility will continue if any big storms create problems for refineries in [...]

No Silver Bullet for Group Collaboration over Distance?

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ April 22, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Lots of organizations have to deal with the challenge of implementing standard work and best practices over physical distances. With sales offices, distribution centers, and manufacturing locations scattered across the country, what’s the best way to get people who know their stuff to collaborate on process improvement – and then take that knowledge back to [...]

Power Outage Follow Up – Observations

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ March 28, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

A couple of hours after my

Anthropology of LinkedIn Answers: Five Days of Posts

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ February 3, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I have seven RSS feeds from LinkedIn Answers in my blogroll for a few months now. I’ll answer a question every once in a while, haven’t posted one yet, maybe some day. As I scan these questions, I can see this social network exhibiting multiple personalities, interesting patterns. So this week, I let my blog [...]

What’s the Difference between Announcements, Blogs, Discussions, Wikis?

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ June 26, 2007 ⋅ One comment

Alternate Title: Battling Collaboration Memes As mentioned previously, we are trying out SharePoint where I work, and I’m finding it interesting, maintaing 3+ blogs, including this one. Actually, the focus of the internal stuff is quite different, as Dennis McDonald and others have been noting. Lot’s of details and stories to write about, but one [...]

Do blogs fit in the enterprise? Specific examples (WIIFMs) …

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ April 19, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Vinson points out a post from Lee, asking if blogs have a place in the enterprise. Jack’s response is interesting, diving into a better way to understand what a blog could be, and the potential for connections. Adventures In Knowledge also chimed in, with a defense of the power of connections. Good stuff, and I [...]

Strategies for Risk Sharing in Consulting Engagements

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ May 13, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

I am late is responding to a comment on this post, first in a series about Consulting Engagements. Earlier this week it was Intellectual Property, with another good comment … so, why all the harsh language about protecting IP that I probably can’t commercialize? Ah – welcome to the world of Risk Sharing. The issue [...]

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