All in culture
You have to be careful with "culture" discussions because they can lead you down some strange paths. Ana Neves has an interesting discussion around knowledge management, and I see them applying to just about anything that wants a specific culture as part of the strategy.
Jim McGee points to an interesting interview with Jordan Frank on the idea that we have a "responsibility to collaborate" with one another. I see it both from the perspective of the individual and of the organization as a whole.
Charles Green has a great piece on collaboration and why we don't. He suggests it's all down to fear. I wonder if we know less about collaboration than we think.
Mark Gould has a discussion of "best practice" that reminds me just how important it is to have a regular policy of looking for other examples of how something has been done before doing it myself.
A friend on Google Reader shared this Web Worker Daily article, "Corporate Culture, Not Technology, Drives Online Collaboration" by Will Kelly. I completely agree with the sentiment, but some of the specific examples worried me.
Shocking news everyone: Multitasking doesn't work. Stanford research shows that it doesn't, at least when walking and chewing gum at the same time.
I'm a little behind the curve on this one, but I picked up and devoured Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers, The Story of Success. Now, the question is, what do I do with this information?
I came across a new-to-me KM blog from Chris Jones of SourcePOV and found a piece on KM and culture. And it seems to connect to another discussion on KM and ROI elsewhere.
There is a running discussion in the blogosphere on layers of a social networks and how trust or value is tied to each layer.
Not my usual reading, but C. Wess Daniels has been doing some thinking on community. "Some Problems with Online Christian Communities | And Why You Should Stay Away."
In the June 2007 HBR, danah boyd was one of the respondents to their case commentary, We Googled You. I highlight boyd's perspective on her own digital identity, as it informs her response.
If I had just read a little more in my aggregator before posting that last item on trust , I would have come across Luke Naismith's article in which he describes trust as an alliterative A-Fram house.
I've been following Sigurd Rinde's thingamy for the last few months, and now he comes up with "organisational hierarchies in practice."
"You can't be additcted to communication," says Keith Hampton. Yes, but you can be addicted to the tools.
Luke Niasmith has a nice pair of images, one from Robinson, and another that reverses the positive effect. They depect 7 Steps to Behavior Change.
Ghost blogging - the process of writing a blog in someone else's place - is just not right.
I'm always interested in discussions that take the idea of social networks and apply them to something important to the speaker. Nic Brisbourne is seeing the links between all the social networks discussions and The Cluetrain Manifesto.
Matt Homann dug up a 1997 article on Honda from CIO Magazine that has an interesting description of their collaborative environment. I couldn't help think of "what good looks like" as I read the excerpt.