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This is a great example of a community taking charge of a project and utilizing all their resources through collaboration. What a great lesson for any young organization to find creative ways to make a change. Read on at KansasCity.com by Sara Shepherd (Kansas City Star) http://www.kansascity.com/2010/08/01/2122053/mural-offers-a-lesson-in-collaboration.html
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Summary: Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action — and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group. About Howard Rheingold: Writer, artist and designer, theorist and community builder, Howard Rheingold is one of the driving minds behind our net-enabled, [...]
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Enterprise 2.0 Boston June 14-17, 2010 Westin Boston Waterfront www.e2conf.com/boston Enterprise 2.0 Boston is the best place to learn how to use collaborative tools to accelerate information flow, drive revenue and increase productivity. Gain comprehensive thought leadership—from strategy to execution and performance monitoring—and bring the power of collaboration to your organization, June 14-17, 2010. www.e2conf.com/boston [...]
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WiiKno’s newest partner, Peer1 (www.peer1.com), announced a new strategy to better support their partners and prospective clients. “With this groundwork, the company decided to launch a dedicated channel sales division to offer better support for partners. In doing so, Peer 1 hopes to realize its goal of growing its channel business from the current 20 [...]
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Communities are built on communications. With stunning advances in communications technology and inexpensive, powerful, and reliable platforms readily available, the art of communications also needs to be matured and implemented. Many workers and business fall into a model of Personal Information Managers (e.g. MS Outlook) and the MS Office trinity of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. [...]
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WiiKno has been awarded a contract to bring collaboration software to the Department of Homeland Security’s National Cyber Security Center. According to a pre-solicitation notice posted on the Federal Business Opportunities Web site, DHS plans to award collaboration start-up WiiKno with a contract unless other bidders step forward and to ramp up the wiki later [...]
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A collaboration platform utilizes a “Network Effect” where the system itself becomes more valuable to those who use it as the number of participants increase and information is created. In the world of Web 2.0, “critical mass” describes the amount of data held in the system which allows the user community to easily retrieve information. [...]
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In the Web 2.0 world, rapidly distributing information has never been easier. Sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and Myspace allow individuals to share information about events in their lives to anyone around the world, while sites such as Wikipedia allow individual to globally share collective knowledge. These and other Web 2.0 systems are rapidly changing [...]
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WiiKno’s CTO, Craig Tobias, was recently mentioned in CiscoPress for his achievements in wiki application: “The Cisco Customer Advocacy Remote Operations Services (ROS) team built a network operations–related knowledge base on a wiki-like framework, called a twiki. In 2006, solutions architect Craig Tobias came up with the idea of creating wiki pages, like file drawers, [...]
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The recent focus on information sharing has led to the proliferation of Web 2.0 tools such as portals and wikis across the U.S. Defense Department. However, these tools are challenging the government’s network-centric transformation by creating new virtual information silos across the Global Information Grid (GIG).
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