Repetition, reverb, and echoes
It's Sunday morning and I've giving myself the luxury of interspersing web crawling with work. I just landed on Robin Good's Online Collaboration news page.
Robin filters, reviews, and points to noteworthy items on the web. His interests and mine dovetail, so I can spend beaucoup time sifting through what's here. For example:
- Group Collaboration Vs. Individual Achievers = 1-0 Wired
"The evidence is clear: groups - whether top executives evaluating a potential acquisition or sales reps and engineers analyzing a new product - will consistently make better decisions than an individual. Companies have spent too long coddling the special few. It's time for them to start figuring out how they're going to tap the wisdom of the many." - Small Technologies Loosely Joined. The Small Technologies Loosely Joined presentation is a complementary and fascinating participatory online event, focusing our attention on the emerging use of readily available, mostly free, discrete sets of "small" and "loosely joined" technologies - weblogs, wikis, instant messaging, audio video conferencing tools.
There's the start of a great debate over centralization vs decentralization. The decentralists picture their position as:
- The Individual Is The Epicenter Of The New Media Revolution is a theme with which I could not agree more.
How's this for a self-referential play-within-a-play? "Individuals, the future "newsmasters" and "digital information librarians" will
be the ones that will elect themselves to become active filters and aggregators
of the increasingly vast amounts of information becoming available online.
Without them, you would be either submerged or you would have to surrender to the poor, superficial and frequently manipulated reporting available through
mainstream media channels only. Individuals are also the new sustainable artists of tomorrow.
So much great information, so little time.
But that's not what I intended to ponder and write about this morning. Robin's Online Collaboration blog also lists this pointer:
- Collaboration Technologies Empower The Enterprise
Jay Cross shares his original live presentation at the ASTD Conference. The presentation containing his original audio and all of the accompanying slides gives an extraordinary overview of just some of the critical issues relevant to effective collaboration inside the enterprise, while exemplifying in very simple words how the greater facility of communicating and sharing in groups can so dramatically enhance the work and the results we are to obtain with it. Jay covers RSS, information overload, blogs, wikis, social networking and much, much more. In his familiar, uncontrived and direct tone, he breezes through an interesting and textured panorama of skills and technologies no organization can afford to do without. Highly recommended. (1:06' Breeze streaming format).
(Thanks, Robin!)
When I posted my presentation to the Web, I mentioned it on thisblog. In typical blog fashion, that entry has scrolled off the page. For visibility, that's worse than being "below the fold" on the front page of the paper. Off the page means Lost in Space.
As anyone who has run an ad campaign knows, nothing really happens until the ad is repeated again and again, sinking into the buyer's consciousness. Imagine the multiplier effect of hitting a diverse group of readers again and again that this post is out there for free viewing. Maybe I'll put a pop-up box of faves on the front page to give the good stuff longer tenure there. While I enjoy creating new stuff, the 80/20 rule tells me there's more payback from seeking exposure from what's already here.
Posted by Jay Cross at June 13, 2004 11:26 AM | TrackBack
