Wave threads together email, instant messages, documents, and applications in a way that you can follow, and even trace the history, of their links. Just as the Google Search Appliance enables companies to find needles in haystacks behind their firewalls, Wave is likely to replace lots of wikis and content management systems. It requires more widgets and mashups to become useful. I nnovations in computing used to trickle down from business and government to consumers. Mainframes evolved into personal computers. Now, innovation often goes the other way. Source. MORE >>

The demo video is pretty overwhelming, and it’s easy to get caught up in the…er…wave. Luckily for us, Scott Wilson has written a very helpful post breaking down the components of Google Wave and even whipping up a quick demo of one possible type of integration between Wave and Moodle. In essence, Wave can be broken down into three parts: Wave Server , which Scott describes as “basically a Jabber instant messaging service with some extensions.&# You certainly can build a wiki-like activity into a larger learning design. We got those. MORE >>

Instant Messaging. Notes From BEA Webinar On Web 2.0 & Enterprise Mashups » October 25, 2007. Social networking is much more than "productivity" although given Microsofts emphasis on Business Productivity Infrastructure I understand the association with related go-to-marketing messages. wonder if it can point to "real" blogs and wikis (not the sub-optimal implementations within SharePoint itself). so if I have a WordPress or Traction blog - or a Socialtext wiki - do they show up? Collaborative Thinking. November 2008. MORE >>

No matter that applications were clunky and inefficient; that could be covered up with a training program. Performance Support empowered novice employees to get up to speed rapidly, to perform with a minimum of outside coaching or training, and to do the job as well or even better than experienced workers. That’s how we use Google and corporate wikis and instant messenger. We have given up the idea that competence must exist within the person. August 24th, 2008 | general Where did the dinosaurs go? And what happened to performance support? they asked. Its [.] MORE >>

Mike made a good point up front. technologies in companies that have grown up around a centralized model of IT, particularly for the second wave adopters required to move Enterprise 2.0 In other words, turn your intranet into a wiki where anyone can update information if they have it. The information is more up-to-date and accurate, and gets people in the mode of being authors. The Content Economy This is a blog about how information technologies can be used to facilitate communication, knowledge exchange and collaboration across time, space and culture. conference. MORE >>