The 3 U’s apply to collaboration as well – source: Nicola Millard (Scribd) I haven’t been blogging a lot in recent months. Many departments, countries, languages and actions: you can imagine it learns one a few lessons on social business and collaboration. and collaboration. Social business is first of all a matter of creating the mindset, space and processes in which collaboration can occur. In a collaboration context, this is translated in a focus on, among others, usefulness and usability. Real-time collaboration 2. collaboration mindset. MORE >>

The next era we are about to witness is technological collaboration enabled by related technology and the resulting impact will change everything. At the heart of this new era of collaboration is a set of paradigm shifts being fueled by discrete ‘enabling’ technologies and innovations. The Era of Technological Collaboration. We are witnessing technological collaboration that is fueling new knowledge which is changing everything. We’ve just begun to witness the power of human collaboration to create ripples of change previously unforeseen. MORE >>

ve been thinking a lot about collaborative marketing lately, and how we can turn co-existing businesses more into partners and less about missed opportunities. think there’s a great untapped market for someone that really wants to grab collaborative marketing and run with it. Instead of doing this all separately, there was some form of collaborative marketing behind it to make your life easier? Connection > Collaboration > Customers. And  they’re  tied in with local businesses that are part of the collaborative marketing approach of all the above. MORE >>

It’s no secret that I’m an advocate for the voice of the employee and for the necessity of emergent collaboration in the workplace. This means that while I believe that collaboration can make the world a better place I certainly realize it’s going to take more then a few evangelists and some tools to make it happen. Great tools and evangelists are helpful but if you recall from a few months ago Chess Media Group released a collaboration framework which looked at many other variables which organizations need to consider for successful collaboration. MORE >>

A little while ago I wrote an article on how employee collaboration and customer collaboration initiatives solve different problems. However just because employee and customer collaboration solve different problems doesn’t mean that they don’t work together. Employee collaboration can actually also greatly benefit the customer in several ways, consider the following: A customer has an issue that needs to be resolved, this issue is crowd-sourced internally to find the best solution instead of just being routed to one person who may or may not have the answer. MORE >>