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Taking Stock and Making Choices: Working from home and other such stuff

ID Reflections

Skype and Hangout are second best. Bonds don’t form over a Skype call but over coffee and lunch when conversations veer to the personal and discussions revolve around interests. This taught me a few things about work, technology and myself. Work —complex knowledge work requires solitude as well as collaboration.

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Why You Should Embrace The Gig Economy For Strategic Advantage

EI Design

But managers and HR departments tend to operate from a perspective of fear, convinced that employees can only complete work if they’re supervised in an office. But, as knowledge workers, we now have email, Slack, Dropbox or Google Drive, and Skype that have collapsed virtual separation. The Problem.

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Social Grid Follow-up

Tony Karrer

Leveraging Networks is Key Skill and the most important Knowledge Worker Skill Gap. Tools and Methods for Networks and Communities - Discusses specific tools and methods for using Networks and Communities as part of Knowledge Work. I'd need to know more to understand what would work for the particular situation.

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Reflecting on the first half of 2009

Jay Cross

Learning and social networks and customer communications and partner relations and marketing and sales aren’t islands. They’re all facets of the same thing: the corporate commons of work and learning. Some astute companies are exploring how a social learning community can remove barriers separating customer and corporation.