Time on a plane

I do a bit more travelling these days and on a trip from Melbourne to Sydney the other night the 'entertainment' (probably a repeated episode of Myth Busters/Two and a half men and the news) was busted.

This resulted in a large amount of noise being generated in the cabin from conversation. People talking to strangers. Interesting discussion between a 40 odd gentlemen and an early twenties lady behind me. Two colleagues talking work gossip in front. Rabi across the aisle and me on my own (I need the leg room). It did allow me to catch up on some reading over the din.

Maybe we need to turn off the 'entertainment' to allow some real conversations to take place in our organisations.

Cory

Collaborating outside the firewall

I had been asked recently to share my knowledge of some of the collaboration/sharing tools that are out there (beyond the firewall), available for little or no cost and differ from the 'classic' social computing apps (wikis & blogs).

So here are a few I have been stashing away in my favourites when I come across them.

• Aps
  Google Aps - www.google.com/a
• Mind Mapping
  Mind42 (mind for two) - http://www.mind42.com/
  Mind Meister - http://www.mindmeister.com/
• Diagrams/Visualisation
  Sketchcast - http://www.sketchcast.com/
  Many Eyes - services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/home
  Swivel - http://www.swivel.com/
• Groups/Discussion
  Google Groups - groups.google.com/
  Yahoo Groups - groups.yahoo.com/
  Grouply - www.grouply.com/
  Tangler - http://www.tangler.com/
• Sharing Documents
  Google Docs - docs.google.com
  Slideshare - http://www.slideshare.net/
• Sharing Images
  flickr - http://www.flickr.com/
• Sharing Books
  Library Thing - http://www.librarything.com/
• Sharing Links
  del.icio.us - del.icio.us
  digg - digg.com
• Networks
  LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/
  Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/
  Fidg't - http://www.fidgt.com/
  Ning - http://www.ning.com/
  Xing - http://www.xing.com/
• Wiki
  Google Sites (Aps) - sites.google.com
  wik.is - http://www.wik.is/
  Wikispaces - http://www.wikispaces.com/
  Wikimatrix - http://www.wikimatrix.com/
  
• Blog
  Blogger - http://www.blogger.com/
  Wordpress - http://www.wordpress.com/
  Live Journal - http://www.livejournal.com/

I have come across a number of these tools by monitoring a few blogs/feeds, groups and email newsletters including:

• XML Daily Newslink - xml.coverpages.org/newsletter.html
• actKM Forum - http://www.actkm.org/
• Online Facilitation Group - tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/onlinefacilitation
• ComPrac Group - groups.yahoo.com/group/com-prac

Thanks

Cory

Free Resource

Always happy to come across a free resource. Yes the quality varies but this one seems to have some value.

Quantum²

Quantum2 is the Thomson Scientific leadership development program for information professionals. It provides the resources to help you transform your organization...the power to lead change.

Thanks to Denise Cadman for the introduction.

Cory