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Standing on the shoulders of giants

Posted in Blog, Collaboration, KM, Personal, Web2.0 on 23 October 2008 | No Comments »

A recent exchange of views on the actKM mailing list inspired me to think about writing about my own Web2.0 experience, and what it means for me. Then the now-famous Wired article was published (no link — it has had enough — but here is a good early critique). I commented on the article’s point [...]

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With a little help from my friends

Posted in Collaboration, Culture, KM, Lawyering, Technology on 20 October 2008 | 3 Comments »

Knowledge management activities in UK law firms depend very heavily on people power — being more reliant on Professional Support Lawyers (PSLs) than their US and continental European counterparts. Despite this, the recent Knowledge Management in Law Firms conference had a noticeable technology focus. I’m afraid I set the tone in the first session with [...]

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Collaboration and credit

Posted in Collaboration, Culture, Music on 24 September 2008 | 1 Comment »

One of my regular pleasures is getting my copy of The Word magazine every month. I bought every copy from its launch in 2003 until I finally got round to subscribing about 18 months ago. I have never subscribed to a magazine before, which is clearly an indication of its success with me. When the [...]

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Dilemmas

Posted in Collaboration, Innovation, Management, Rationality on 9 July 2008 | No Comments »

Reading Tom Davenport’s brief polemic on the meaning of management (and the comments on it), I have realised that some of the things that I believe (and have promoted here) may be mutually contradictory.
Commenting on IBM’s explicit change in terminology from “knowledge management” to “knowledge sharing”, Davenport argues that (a) the equation of “management” with [...]

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Reading around

Posted in Collaboration on 2 July 2008 | No Comments »

In an earlier blog post, I referred to James Webb Young’s book, A Technique for Producing Ideas, which links innovation and creativity to the capacity to see new relationships between old elements. I was originally directed to the book by Shawn Callahan at Anecdote. Now Shawn has written a blog post on collaboration. In it, he [...]

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Beyond the Golden Rule

Posted in Collaboration, Culture, Technology on 1 July 2008 | No Comments »

I am still catching up with unread blogs, but I want to add something to Mary Abrahams’ commendation of the Golden Rule as the key to collaboration. As the Wikipedia entry on the Rule suggests (at the moment), it can be the cause of problems when there are differences in values or interests:
Shaw’s comment about [...]

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Web 2.0: life-enhancing technology

Posted in Collaboration, Technology on 25 April 2008 | No Comments »

A quick post to draw attention to Scott Berkun’s report from the Web 2.0 expo. Here’s the bit that deserves memorialisation: 
The unspoken nugget / explanation / marketing line that might get me jazzed is this:
We have always been collaborative. Always been social. It’s in our genes and it’s what we have evolved to do well. [...]

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Document management and collaboration

Posted in Collaboration, Culture, Knowledge, Lawyering, Projects, Technology on 28 February 2008 | 1 Comment »

James Dellow has neatly summarised a discussion about the relative merits of wikis and document management in law firms. Reading both reminded me that I owe an former co-conspirator my view on document management systems as a tool for collaboration. I hope what follows will suffice.Like most law firms, we have a document management system [...]

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