If you’ve decided to create one of the new Facebook groups and add your friends here are some tips to make it worthwhile for everyone. Creating the group is easy. I’m assuming you’ve seen the video by now, but if not here’s a link and some info on creating Facebook groups. What’s the focus of the group? Is there already a group started? Creating a group just for the sake of owning it isn’t really the best way to get people to engage. Who would want to be in this group? Collaborate. Start with a plan. MORE >>

Basically the discussion was around how information is handled via email versus how it is handled via a collaboration platform. The issue was that if a collaboration platform sends notifications for every action, every activity, and every comment that someone creates then doesn’t that actually make the email problem worse? How can a collaboration platform help employees manage the information that gets sent to their inboxes every few minutes? If someone on your team is responding to a group email you’re also going to get an…email. MORE >>

Back in May Facebook announced they were going to allow  document uploads  to Facebook groups  to enable file sharing inside the groups.Athough it is a good idea in theory, in practice it’s clunky at best andhardtotrack changes if any collaboration goes on at all. So today’s announcement that Facebook is integrating Dropbox into Facebook groups is pretty huge. Announced on the  Dropbox blog    you will now be able to share a Dropbox within the group and see updated files in real time. Facebook Social Media Tools MORE >>

Last week I wrote an article on “ designing for collaboration ” and this got me thinking a lot about serendipity which is the unexpected occurrence of events in a beneficial way. I started going through some of the collaboration case studies I have put together and recalling the many conversations I have been having with clients and colleagues at organizations from around the world. It’s something we should expect to happen and something we should plan to happen as a result of deploying the new collaboration tools and strategies we have today. MORE >>

Based on a research report Chess Media Group released last year on the  State of Enterprise 2.0 Collaboration , the most common types of IT resistance to collaboration are: it’s not a priority, there are security issues or threats, no manpower, and no budget. If employees and executives decide that effective collaboration and communication is a priority, IT usually follows. Sometimes IT leads the collaboration initiative and team members in this department may not all agree on things such as security or feasibility. Collaboration Enterprise 2.0 MORE >>