For those that know me, I started out my career many moons ago as a K-12 educator. For some of you, I’m sure you’re thinking, “what a lunatic”. only lasted three years but I look back on those years, nevertheless, with the fondest of memories. Truth be told though, I didn’t last because I was in the minority. As a 25 year-old trying to uproot the education system to become more collaborative, more open, more connected, I was leery of falling into the ambivalence pit of staffroom rhetoric. was in the minority of trying to bring the education system to its knees. Why wasn’t there a change afoot? MORE >>

I’m not known to normally pick a fight with someone, but if I see or read something that seems somewhat incongruent to a combination of my beliefs and formal research, well, I tend to stick myself into the fray. See Kirkpatrick posts one and two for both comedic relief and testament to the aforementioned. Jennifer Sertl seems like a talented person. She’s an author , runs a blog , has her own company , and generally looks to be more than successful in her career. for better or worse on the latter point of course). am the result of both strong and weak ties. am nothing without both sets of ties. MORE >>

There is a dilemma that exists in the 90-9-1 phenomenon. Do we first require an organizational culture adaptation prior to any meaningful Enterprise 2.0 adoption? Thus, helping us reverse the order where, now, 90% of the population are active creators versus 1%? Or, do Enterprise 2.0 tools need to become so simplistic, easy to use and of course generally available to an organization before a culture can be considered connected, flat and more collaborative? It feels like a causality dilemma worth exploring. That got me thinking. That should change the culture, right? Well, how do you do that? MORE >>

Through various studies and reports, given the chance where online participation is possible, 90% of the users will simply observe and lurk (remember, Learning is Lurking ), 9% will occasionally contribute, edit, etc. whereas 1% of users can be denoted as those that contribute most of the content itself. The Power Collaboration Users). Thus, we pay homage to the 90-9-1 phenomenon or as Nielsen describes, “ participation inequality ”. It is also known as the 1% rule. collaboration technologies by users: . Naturally, these data points got me thinking. not the band ). Where are you? Educate. MORE >>

In a previous instalment entitled “ The Collaboration Curve ”, I discussed the basic premise that over a period of time and as the use of collaboration methods increase, a user’s knowledge, engagement, network and ultimately their performance would increase. The various increases, however, occur one after the other, and is somewhat dependent on both the use of collaboration methods and the speed at which each stage occurs. There is a question that remains. How should one actually collaborate ? Enter “ The Collaboration Cycle ”. .  . Continuous, Authentic, Receptive and Enrich). Continuous. MORE >>