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Gossip, Collaboration, and Performance in Distributed Teams

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Most managers have heard of the watercooler effect without ever having the meaning of the concept sink in to their understanding of how it relates to performance and collaboration. A couple of studies released this summer dealing with performance and collaboration in teams merit consideration. elearning 2.0 elearning 2.0

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Empathy and Collaboration in Social Business Design

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To get to the main point quickly, let's do what few people offering thoughts about collaboration actually do. First off, collaboration isn't just about people sharing information to achieve common goals. Collaboration is about people working with other people to achieve common goals. Advocates of Enterprise 2.0

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Social Learning, Collaboration, and Team Identity

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Its focus was on the importance of social software applications in the Enterprise to the ability of distributed project team members to recognize who is on their team at any point in time, and who isn't. Tags: Change Management Collaboration Enterprise 2.0 One of my earlier posts asked the question, Who's on Your Team?

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Collaboration, Empathy, and Language in Global Teams

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Actual research into how such mandates affect collaboration within distributed teams with members from different mother toungues and national cultures is less abundant. Diversification of organizational tasks across departments in different countries creates bottlenecks without a lingua franca, increasing inefficiencies.

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SharePoint is not Enterprise 2.0 or Social Networking " Skilful Minds

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Thomas' post, as always, offers a unique point of view on what Enterprise 2.0 The social software stack, in particular the difference between collective understanding and collaborative understanding, frames Vander Wal's perspective. Tags: Collaboration Enterprise 2.0 consists and, specifically, how SharePoint measures up.

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Social Business Design and Multichannel Team Collaboration

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Shared experience, not just shared information, is fundamental to the social networks underlying collaboration and innovation. It is especially important to multichannel collaboration. Many, if not most, employees don’t only need to get to know one another through reputation systems, like who people tag as possessing expertise.

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Podular Organization and Edge Businesses

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Enterprise 2.0 and Team Boundaries , and then a couple years later in Social Learning, Collaboration, and Team Identity. Change Management Collaboration Enterprise 2.0 Several research projects in recent years noted the fuzzy boundaries of teams in large organizations.