The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations, first published in 2004, is a book written by James Surowiecki about the aggregation of information in groups, resulting in decisions that, he argues, are often better than could have been made by any single member of the group.
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GTD Toolbox: 100+ Resources for Getting Things Done - 0 views
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This "Collect and Process" looks like Digo's floating Sticky Notes.
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Twiddla - 0 views
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free web-based group meeting and real-time collaboration - ...1 more comment...
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Mark up websites, graphics, and photos, or start brainstorming on a blank canvas. Browse the web with your friends or make that conference call more productive than ever. No plug-ins, downloads, or firewall voodoo - it's all here, ready to go when you are. Browser-agnostic, user-friendly.
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Reminds me of Dabbleboard.
5pm - Project management, task organizer, team collaboration and time tracking software: 5p... - 0 views
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Next-generation web-based PM tool 5pm.
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An interesting web-based PM tool. I like the fact that they are flexible about file-storage size and are willing to create a plan that fits the user's needs. --Rick Cogley
From the site: "5pm™ is a next generation web based project management tool
Looking for a better way to stay organized?
5pm can be your central location for project and task management, team collaboration, time tracking, reporting and more...
Start today and get more done by 5pm! "
DEVONtechnologies - home of DEVONthink, DEVONagent, DEVONnote - 0 views
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DEVONthink 2, when it comes out eventually, will be an excellent aid for collaborative workgroups.
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DEVONthink is a powerful personal information organization tool with artificial intelligence built in. Archive and analyze various pieces of info with this tool. Version 2.0 coming soon, as of Dec 2008.
From their website: "Meet DEVONthink - designed to manage and keep in order all those disparate pieces of information so important to your work or studies. As you become more experienced with DEVONthink and its easy, intuitive interface you will quickly find more exciting ways of using your data."
Mindmapping, concept mapping and information organisation software - 0 views
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A huge selection of software for mindmapping and information organisation...
Yammer - 0 views
Task Scoresheet | The Online CEO - 0 views
10 Must Have Online Office Apps - ReadWriteWeb - 0 views
9 Great Tools for Achieving Your Goals - 0 views
Getting Real - 0 views
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Interesting read from 37 signals about how they approach to agile software development.
"The Wisdom of Crowds" - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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Another book "Wikinomics - How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything" is also good.
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Basecamp.com - Project collaboration, management, and task software - 0 views
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“Basecamp is so simple you can't do anything wrong. It's addictively easy-to-use.”
-Robert Hof, BusinessWeek
Campfire.com - (secure) business chat for groups - 0 views
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“Campfire is dead simple to use and has an incredibly intuitive interface.”
-TechCrunch
Best Practices / Socialtext Customer Exchange - 0 views
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Best Practices
Learn how the pros achieve higher productivity through enhanced collaboration.
- Attention Management - Reduce time wasted in the Inbox.
- CC to Wiki - Get around the curse of Reply-to-All.
- Collaborating on a non wiki page using a wiki page - Use the attachment feature to collaborate on presentation files, etc.
- Designing Spaces - Key considerations for creating new spaces.
- Developing a Public Blogging Strategy
- Distributed Document Review
- Gardening and Wiki gardening tips
- Index Pages - create starting points for navigation around topics of interest.
- Lightning Editing - how to co-edit a document with a collaborator
- Securing buy-in - getting others to shift perspectives on wikis
- Sparking participation at events
- Using the workspace as a document repository
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A good list of productivity features when used in conjunction with wikis. This is socialtext oriented
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Using the workspace as a document repository
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- Create tagging structures - Develop a core list of tags for your wiki
- Wiki Structure - Create a page which outlines important elements of the wiki
- Stop creating Word documents - The first rule of integrating wikis effectively
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Learn how the pros achieve higher productivity through enhanced collaboration. * Attention Management - Reduce time wasted in the Inbox. * CC to Wiki - Get around the curse of Reply-to-All. * Collaborating on a non wiki page using a wiki page - Use the at
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Socialtext is cool, and this best practices section is useful to learn about trends in the enterprise
Koral - Collaborative Content Management without the Hassle of "Management" - 0 views
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For additional information, check out the demo video by Tim Barker, VP Products, and Robert Scoble's interview with CEO Mark Suster.
Shared Calendars - 0 views
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- To link to other people’s calendars: In the Calendar tab ->
Right click an open space -> New Calendar - This brings up a “create new calendar” dialog box
- Click the “remote” button and Next
- Click the “WebDav” Button enter the location: https://www.box.net/dav/calendar/persons_name.ics
(see the list) - If you want to change the name do so in the space provided. You
can also change the background color for this calendar’s entries - Click Next
- Click Finish
- To link to other people’s calendars: In the Calendar tab ->
