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blueKiwi 2009 is an enterprise social software for people-centric organizations to create powerful and secure social networks and collaborative environments with partners, customers and colleagues. Integrating familiar features of Web 2.0 such as wikis, blogs, forums, RSS and tagging, blueKiwi introduces a new and innovative way of getting things done.

With the advent of Web 2.0, numerous social software applications allow people to publish and share information on the Internet. Two of these types of applications - collaborative workspaces and social network sites - have a number of features in common, which are explored to provide a basis for comparative analysis.

Interesting diagram showing the efficiency of using Wikis.

YouTube video showing the collaboration site developed for members of the Future of Work Consortium. This project is headed by Prof Lynda Gratton of London Business School

"Thinking, Fast and Slow is a 2011 book by Nobel Prize winner in Economics Daniel Kahneman which summarizes research that he conducted over decades, often in collaboration with Amos Tversky.[1][2] It covers all three phases of his career: his early days working on cognitive bias, his work on prospect theory, and his later work on happiness. The book's central thesis is a dichotomy between two modes of thought: System 1 is fast, instinctive and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The book delineates cognitive biases associated with each type of thinking, starting with Kahneman's own research on loss aversion. From framing choices to substitution, the book highlights several decades of academic research to suggest that we place too much confidence in human judgment."

"Smart Wikis™ combine Artificial Intelligence and knowledge concepts with your existing IT to provide integrated collaborative working environments that anticipate each user's personal information needs and surround that user with seamless and non-obtrusive forms of assistance."

Today we face an entirely new environment for innovation and getting things done. The days of the lone genius quietly toiling away in pursuit of that 'Eureka' moment to revolutionise an industry are all but over. We are now in the days of asking and listening to our customers and working with them in our innovation cycles. Innovation demands collaboration. So does production. In the past we could focus on a single task in an assembly-line fashion, handing our completed activity to the next person who would in turn do the same, until the job was finished. Now the jobs change fast, requiring learning new skills rather than merely repeating the old. We have to seek out people who have other pieces of the puzzle and work with them to tackle increasingly complex issues at a much faster pace.

The Management 2.0 Hackathon, a joint collaborative effort by the MIX, Saba, and the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, was inspired by hacakathons in the world of software development. A management hackathon is a short, intense, coordinated effort to develop useful hacks-innovative ideas or solutions-that can be implemented by organizations to overcome barriers to progress and innovation.

Sitrion Sharepoint social platform

"Tullow Oil, a London-based independent oil and gas exploration and production company, regularly wins awards for its innovative approach to problem solving. Its business culture is based on investing in the best people and then trusting them to work together to keep Tullow on the leading edge of the industry. Tullow's CIO recently challenged his team to develop an approach to devolve control of IT project prioritization to non-IT leaders within the company. This article explains the approach developed and how it is working to keep the business's IT strategy aligned with Tullow's entrepreneurial spirit and commitment to collaborative decision making."

"Amy Jo Kim, Ph.D. is a leading consultant on gamification as a business model to increase customer engagement. She also holds a Ph.D. in behavioral psychology. In 2010, Kim reworked Bartle's Player Types Model. She replaced the "Killer" type with "Express" -- a much more business- and school-friendly descriptor! Completing the axis, "Compete" took the place of "Achiever," "Explore" replaced "Explorer," and "Collaborate" replaced "Cooperate.""

"Failure happens. This is a community and a resource to encourage new levels of transparency, collaboration and innovation across the for-purpose sector."