Corporations that understand the value of knowledge sharing, teamwork, informal learning and joint problem solving are investing heavily in collaboration technology and are reaping the early rewards. Our relationship with knowledge is changing as our work becomes more intangible and complex. Making social learning work. MORE >>

Computers can now do many things (like drive a car ) that we used to need people for; they can also facilitate human knowledge workers, making them much more productive and so requiring fewer of them to accomplish the work of the organization. The outsourcing and offshoring of knowledge work depend, of course, on technology. MORE >>

Tweet Virtual work can significantly reduce useless meetings, eliminate commuting time and free up time for knowledge workers to focus on what is important: being creative and dealing with complex problems. Virtual work also changes the organizational dynamic. key to learning and working collaboratively is trust. Trust MORE >>

StevenBJohnson -  How research works in an age of social networks  (or at least how it works for me)  [highly recommended post #PKM]. Very few of the key links came from the traditional approach of reading a work and then following the citations included in the endnotes. ” via @SebPaquet. Wells” via @iain2008. MORE >>

In fact, he focused on describing, and quite nicely, I must add as well, five different principles for collaborative tools that work in any context, in any environment: Build pointers to people. which are mostly labour based, from the quantum orgs, which are mostly knowledge work based. event of events. Event , a.k.a. e2conf. MORE >>