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Feed Readers: What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been Amy's article isn't compelling for her reviews of different feed readers, it's compelling because it talks about another person leaving the Windows platform. I'm not a huge fan of Windows. I use it for necessity, really. I wonder if Amy isn't alone. Leaving IE, then leaving…

Collaboration and telework isn't about technology. Technology enables people to telecommute, but there have to be processes in place and a willingness and perceived value in picking up the phone, IMing, e-mailing, blogging, to connect with all the people in the team or group. If part of the group decides not to bother anymore, the…

Many minds collaborating better than one brilliant person solo…good arguements for collaboration software I think… Instead of looking to a single person for the right answers, companies need to recognize a simple truth: Under the right conditions, groups are smarter than the smartest person within them. We often think of groups and crowds as stupid,…

Interesting post. I had heard about this earlier. Groove is an interesting choice for this. I think, really, any decent web-based collaboration tool, could've done the job. Earlier this month, Sanjana Yajitha Hattotuwa, a Rotary World Peace Scholar at the University of Queensland, spoke at the Third Annual Forum on Online Dispute Resolution in Melbourne,…

From Contentious…two Canadian goverment sites are winners the National Research Council and the Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Board. Beyond the Canadian pride in this, later in Amy's article she lists the points that the Nielsen Norman Group cites as Intranet best practices. Some of these have been published else where as well. Government Intranets:…

David Hornik has a very interesting opinion piece on C|Net today that should come as almost no surprise to anyone who blogs. Even though I haven't been blogging long, I've already figured out that many blogs (and social networks) are about passion. People (myself included) are passionate about blogs and blogging and passionate people like…