Tibco’s Tibbr kicked off the strong shift to “activity streams”, which includes corporate and project activities as well as people’s notes; I wrote about this at Tibbr’s launch. Intriguingly, I am hearing that some companies are using Twitter as a free enterprise microblogging platform, using protected accounts. MORE >>

Between sessions and during announcements, the Twitterstream is projected onto the main screen. Twitter backchannel on the big screen. Tags: Community Design Every year for the last six, I have flown to Seattle to attend Gnomedex , far and away my favorite and most powerful learning event. Gnomedex X. Community. Facilities. MORE >>

Tweet Here are some of the things that were shared via Twitter this past week. Jack and Marilyn Whalen, the IRL researchers contracted by Xerox to advise it on the ICS project, suggested that training need not take a full year; that it could, in fact, be dramatically shortened. One person is the Decider for final design choices. MORE >>

Design school project teaches bike safety - The Stanford Daily Online. Gretchen Rubin: The Happiness Project. Tim Brown: Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation. Bill Moggridge: Designing Interactions. Bob Sutton. Book Me For A Speech. Brightsight Group. Search. MORE >>

Work Design - From Industrial to Networked Age (previously, Part I and the first half of Part II ) Horizontal networking often creates dissonance in the vertical enterprise The vertical structure of knowledge did not foresee the coming of horizontal networking tools now shaping today’s workplace. Call for Organizational (re)Development. MORE >>