cooperation - Articles Archive
from September 16, 2006 to June 3, 2004

 

 


The ability to organize effective group decision making processes and to effectively build consensus around key issues and problems has been a challenging task from the dawn of time. If you now add the need to facilitate the building of consensus among groups of geographically distant ... read more

Michael Pick and Robin Good - GroupSystems - September 16, 2006
 

Open-source, as an approach to create software as a commodity, new ways of doing journalism, news reporting and even video production may seem a little too cutting edge to many, but indeed these new experimental ways of working collaboratively and from the roots, show great promise ... read more

Ted - Slashdot - August 14, 2006
 

"Professionals" in any field come in two flavors: Knowledge Sharers and Knowledge Hoarders. The hoarders believe in the value of their "Intellectual Property" (IP). The products of their mind must be carefully guarded lest anyone steal their precious ideas. Photo credit: Linda Bucklin But let's face it ... read more

Kathy Sierra - Creating Passionate Users - July 12, 2006
 

Michel Bauwens concludes his major essay on P2P economics by looking at the opportunities that would lead the economics of peer to peer to become increasingly important forces in the emerging new rich marketplaces created by information surplus, distributed technology, and by those instances where the ... read more

Michel Bauwens - Ctheory.net - March 6, 2006
 

Michel Bauwens takes us further in this explorative journey into better understanding the true nature, characteristics and potential value of peer-to-peer (P2P). Photo credit: Neil Gould In this essay (part II of three - part I ) he explores P2P as an alternative production modality, and gives useful ... read more

Michel Bauwens - Ctheory.net - February 27, 2006
 

Not since Marx identified the manufacturing plants of Manchester as the blueprint for the new capitalist society has there been a deeper transformation of the fundamentals of our social life. Photo credit: Joseph Zlomek As political, economic, and social systems transform themselves into distributed networks, a new ... read more

Michel Bauwens - Ctheory.net - February 20, 2006
 
Howard Rheingold Howard Rheingold, the author of SmartMobs and a pioneer of online collaboration talks about the benefits of using Ourmedia multimedia video archive for the storage and licensing of the videos of his last Stanford course on "cooperation". You can watch Howard Rheingold's Literacy of Cooperation Lecture ... read more

Robin Good - February 14, 2006
 

Sharewood Picnic is my weekly collection of new media resources and tools. In it you find the best new media tools and picks I discover weekly during my daily research and explorations. The picnic gems I select are all tools and services that while small or ... read more

Robin Good - February 12, 2006
 
Give people some trust and authority. They deserve it. You'll be amazed at what they can do without you supervising their every move. It works for employees and customers. ... read more

Jeremy Zawodny - Trust People and They'll Surprise You - February 12, 2006
 

Thirty years ago news anchorman, Walter Cronkite, would finish up his hourly news broadcast to the nation of America by saying, ‘and that’s the way it is.” Kronkite was the daily voice of gospel news truth, and America was duly grateful. How very different it is ... read more

Alan Moore - SMLXL - February 2, 2006
 

It's the New Year and time for pundits everywhere to predict every possibility that 2006 will bring. Chris Shipley of DEMO fame sees the need for collaborating effectively, and beyond superficial technology-only solutions. ... read more

Chris Shipley - Kolabora - January 4, 2006
 
"In 2002, Professor Benkler published a seminal essay with the provocative title "Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm." In Coase's Penguin Professor Benkler states that for decades we have lived with two major ways in which individuals organize economic production: ... read more

Irving Wladawsky-Berger - August 19, 2005
 
Here is an idea for everyone interested in sharing ideas to change the world! Libertes Philosophica or “the right to think” was a phrase coined by Giordano Bruno, a controversial Italian Renaissance philosopher who challenged the authorities by daring to think beyond the common beliefs ... read more

Mykljonzun - August 19, 2005
 

To make virtual business-based networked team work effectively we spend way too much time and resources focusing on the technologies and software tools which would best retrofit our needs for improved, faster and more efficient communications. We test, compare, review and experiment tons of new tools searching ... read more

Robin Good - August 12, 2005
 
"The greater the need to communicate our feelings, the harder it is to do. Indeed, sharing our opinions and emotions is risky business. We minimize the risk when we move through the levels of communication incrementally. That is, each conversation ought to begin with phatic communication ... read more

Nan Peck, Northern Virginia Communication College - [via Mincius Sodas - Bala Pillai] - June 3, 2004
 

 

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