The title of this post suggests a treatise more than a lowly blog post, but, I’m a busy proposal writer, so I’ll have to settle for the post. A friend sent me a link to a Gartner newsletter yesterday, and the title was “It’s official. Collaboration is a top business priority.” That’s good news...
Read more →Sean Munson and I will be hosting a roundtable discussion at the iConference at UCLA in February. The preconference wiki is up and ready for your contributions. Here’s the description of the roundtable: ——————— Professional students, whether undergraduates or masters’ students, represent a significant portion of the iSchool community. How do iSchools effectively educate...
Read more →I have a meeting tomorrow with a leader of a product group at a Silicon Valley-based household name. On the itinerary, I’m described as “a PhD student who has worked on use of social media and etc. by science and engineering research groups”. I’ve been asked to come up with a 3-5 minute introduction...
Read more →Ask and you shall receive. Here is the text from which Jude and I spoke during our talk at GROUP this year. We said more than is here, but you get the gist. Thanks to everyone who stayed off the beach long enough to see our presentation! Slide 1: Title Welcome to Twiki and...
Read more →I’m having trouble convincing myself that staying involved in big science projects is a tenable arrangement for me. Big science drives a lot of SI’s money, and I’m starting to feel a bit like a puppet. Sure, I think big science is interesting and valuable. Who doesn’t want an anthrax vaccine or concrete that...
Read more →Stuff to think about: 1:1 chats, social, work, coordination, interruption what about emotion, sarcasm, stuff you don’t want logged feature creep, federation Systems on the web: Babble – from IBM, designed for small, defined workgroups http://www.research.ibm.com/SocialComputing/babble.htm Adium – tabbed multi-client IM for Mac examples from logs: Adrienne Sat Jan 21 Ben on Yahoo Wed...
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