When consider crowdsourcing in the above context as a method for obtaining pertinent information and perspective from relatively large numbers of people, it is useful to differentiate between it and collective intelligence, a related concept. About three months ago Beth Kanter wrote about the Crowdsourcing of Vision at the Smithsonian Museum. MORE >>

Impact (whether the job controls, or contributes, or simply is an information relay). ( Re-published from October 2002 … browsing through old stuff, it’s interesting what comes up. The DNA of Hierarchy. In order to have the way the work was ordered make sense, the discipline of job evaluation was invented. Breadth of Management. MORE >>

The new conditions of an interconnected workplace world – free-flowing information delivered via integrated information systems, linked together in networks of relationships – are rapidly redefining the nature of work. That "near future" is now here and the impact of Jensen's four principles are growing. Guess what? MORE >>

What Intranet designers and managers fail to appreciate is that the principal way people share information and build useful knowledge   (italics my addition) hasn’t changed in centuries — people get it through real-time conversation with people they respect and trust. Here’s why. to Web 2.0, DO NOTHING. GET OUT OF THE WAY. MORE >>

Subsequently, the presence of electronic media for creating, distributing and communicating information, knowledge and meaning has grown more widely and more dramatically than perhaps even he could have foreseen. It is used to carry out voice-based exchanges of information between two or more people. Introductory Quotes. Trippi. MORE >>