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Thematic Core - Apps Team meaning and scope of Collaboration
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by Brittain on Feb 15, 2008 - 09:11 AM read 631 times
 

Updated: July 24, 2008 

As most of you know, we have software IP in the "collaboration" space.  We threw together this following diagram as a guideline for the features we consider for that space.

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    by Luna Flesher on Oct 10, 2008 - 04:21 PM read 1 times
     

    This graph does a good job of capturing the various metrics of internal communications.  I think it should include traditional (non-technological) Protocols like Face to Face.  I think it would also be useful to include specific "applications" of the merge between Styles and Protocols, i.e.:

    Brainstorming + Web = Yammer/Twitter

    Document Sharing + Web = Knowledgebase

    Private + Email = Email

    Then you can start to see crossovers, like:

    Private + Document Sharing + Web = Knowledgebase

    I also see a need for a metric that expresses whether something is structured/unstructured, formalized/unformalized, self-organizational/top-down.

    For instance, on the Reality protocol, you can have informal brainstorming one-on-one face to face (water cooler talk or someone drops by).  Or you can have formalized (structured) brainstorming face to face (a scheduled meeting).

    You can have a spontaneous discussion start up in Yammer (this) which is self-organized, informal brainstorming unthreaded over the web that changed to Threaded self-organized informal brainstorming over the web. :)

    I think maybe one of the struggles for people is the ability or preference to access all these channels.  I may prefer email and Twitter and IM.  Other people like to drop by my desk and ask me questions. Others like to write blog posts and get feedback in comments.  I may be interested in that blog post, but because of all these channels, I'll probably miss it.

    Another struggle is what we're talking about here... how do we bridge the channels?

    And then Time is another biggie.  It's a nice idea to get everyone's input, or every interested person's input .. but not everyone is able to focus on everything at once.  There are weeks I'm so slammed I can't even read The Buzz.  Other weeks are slow, and I want to catch up on certain Hub threads or Yammer topics, but the party is already over.

    The answer to these issues is where the magic lies. :)

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