I also found something event planners and attendants will love. And this was by mistake. When bookmarking a link which happened to be of a certain event I’ll attend and adding a notes and tags to it, a ‘This link” tab caught my eye. I had to click it (DeeDee, don’t press the buuuuuutttooooooooooon!). It shows who else has visited the site, who else on Diigo that is, and what else they’ve bookmarked. So I’d say it’s a little easier to befriend those attending an event and set a meeting then let’s say…asking a question on LinkedIn and waiting for people to answer.

There are two ways to go about encouraging adoption of social software: fostering grassroots behaviours which develop organically from the bottom-up; or via top-down instruction. In general, the former is more desirable, as it will become self-sustaining over time - people become convinced of the tools' usefulness, demonstrate that to colleagues, and help develop usage in an ad hoc, social way in line with their actual needs.

These key users should: be open to trying new software be influential amongst their peers, thus able to help promulgate usage have the support of their managers Users who are potential evangelists should be identified at every level of management, not just amongst the higher echelons, or amongst the workforce.

3. Convert key users into evangelists Training in the form of short informal sessions (face-to-face or online) and ongoing on-demand support are the basics for encouraging adoption. Too much training or too formal a setting will put users off, and is usually unnecessary.

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

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 > Doing a demo 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 See also Bonnes Pratiques for a chart of best practices and French translations.

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The following tips come from research into virtual teamwork. Hold an initial face-to-face startup Have periodic face-to-face meetings, especially to resolve conflict and maintain team cohesiveness Establish a clear code of conduct or set of norms and protocols for behavior Recognize and reward performance Use visuals in communications Recognize that most communications will be non-verbal -- use caution in tone and language

Strategies for VTThe following tips come from research into virtual teamwork. Hold an initial face-to-face startup Have periodic face-to-face meetings, especially to resolve conflict and maintain team cohesiveness Establish a clear code of conduct or set of norms and protocols for behavior Recognize and reward performance Use visuals in communications Recognize that most communications will be non-verbal -- use caution in tone and language

For additional information, check out the demo video by Tim Barker, VP Products, and Robert Scoble's interview with CEO Mark Suster.

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

Work organizations increasingly adopt shared electronic databases. However, employees' unwillingness to contribute to shared resources undermines the utility of such technologies. Current research is limited to either a utilitarian or normative perspective. To advance understanding in this area, this study proposes a three-dimensional framework. It includes the utilitarian and normative perspectives as two complementary dimensions in addition to a third collaborative dimension. Based on this framework, the study identifies three key organizational processes and advances an additive model to predict employees' willingness to contribute to shared electronic databases. An empirical test was conducted to assess the model in a large manufacturing organization. The test showed both significant overall effects of the model and significant main effects of each predictor variable. The article will discuss the findings and address both theoretical and practical implications. Key Words: information sharing • collective action • organizational knowledge • knowledge management • collaboration • communities of practice • identification

They should support it both philosophically and financially, ideally even working remotely themselves. Managers who try to make virtual work look as much as possible like office work–establishing standard hours

Team members communicate regularly by phone. No matter what mix of communications technologies are used–email, IM, videoconferencing, phone–I’ve found that it’s the telephone that binds people together best in the absence of face-to-face meetings.

Team members check in with each other frequently throughout the work day.

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Knowledge management problems in a large organization

Big problem in an organization like ours is getting access and distributing information that exists in one part to other parts. It is amazing how hard it is to first of all find out who is responsible for certain topics. Of course we have lists, who does what, but finding them is not always easy. Some departments publish them on the corporate intranet and with the new Google Search Appliance, we can actually find them. But finding out what their projects entail, the intended output, project plans, drafts, introductions into the subject, is quite simply impossible.

Work in projects is done through mail.