Reading and writing and creating some new kinds of content (new for me) next year has taken up a lot of my thinking over the past few weeks. And demanding engagement with the promise of community implicit in its form. “ demanding engagement with the promise of community implicit in its form. Mod goes on to list some of the potential changes that will be wrought upon the publishing system, from beginning to end: Engagement with readers (the building of community and conversation) begins immediately in the pre-artifact system. am making some changes here shortly. MORE >>

Every Friday, I’ll be reviewing a vendor in the emergent collaboration space and will provide an overview on that vendor which includes aspects from leadership and vision to technology and market focus. Other collaboration vendor reviews can be found here. XWiki is open source so there is a community behind it which continuously supports its development. XWiki is an open-source product so there is a community behind it that continues to build and extend the platform. Capabilities (customer, partner, employee collaboration). In 2011 XWiki did 1.5 Support. MORE >>

My PR friends will strive to find ways to connect or create community and journalism friends are going to remind me about the need for great content and the digital design camp is going to say it won’t mean anything if it isn’t attractive to the eye. Collaboration is a sign of strength, not weakness and we can make each other and our clients even more successful. In fact, social media in itself IS collaboration. So when you find your chief: Despite that wide range of professional backgrounds, social media professionals tend to be very collaborative. MORE >>

The only way to make that success happen is integration and it requires a collaborative culture. customer culture is a collaborative integration culture It’s my role, your role and that of management to create engaging experiences for employees. And engagement is what makes people productive, passionate and collaborative. This is the age of integration and without a collaborative, holistic and unified approach it simply doesn’t work, especially in a digital business reality. Well, content is crucial in everything we do and it has always been so. MORE >>

A community of practice (CoP) is, according to cognitive anthropologists Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger , a group of people who share an interest, a craft, and/or a profession. Over the last year or so, the term communities of practice has entered the social media buzzword lexicon along with virtual collaboration, engagement, platforms, and Enterprise 2.0. There is no reference to the tools that are used to facilitate the communication and collaboration, nor is there a defined set of characteristics that define how a community of practice works or what topics they discuss. MORE >>