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From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories

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2003; Stokols, Harvey, Gress, Fuqua, & Phillips, 2005). Additional information on this project and extended case studies will be published in a forthcoming book, Science on the Internet (Olson, Zimmerman, & Bos, 2007). Universities often guard their intellectual property and funding in ways that hinder multi-site collaboration.

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IBM SJ 45-4 | Ethnographic study of collaborative knowledge work

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We conducted this study over a six-month period in 2003 and 2004 at five different business sites in the Boston area. Some processes were simple, such as “how to reserve the LCD projector for a meeting” or “how to submit a book purchase order.” Approach and tools. Most participants find this distracting.

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PKM and the Organization - Pollard

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It will be published later this year as a chapter in a compendium book on emerging trends in KM. I first got interested in the idea of bottom-up personal knowledge management, focused on the unique needs of each front-line employee, in 2003, my last year as Global Director of Knowledge Innovation for a major professional services firm.