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Week 9: Internal Collaboration

Submitted by meredith on Sat, 07/26/2008 - 9:57am

March 23 - April 5

 

Learning Objectives

By the end of the week, you should:

  1. Identify the tools available to build internal collaboration in libraries.
  2. Understand the value and potential uses of collaborative tools.
  3. Understand how to build effective collaboration.
  4. Identify potential barriers to collaboration and how to deal with them.

Lecture

No lecture this week

    Readings

    Required
    Farkas, Chapter 8 (pages 125-130)
    Kelly, W. (2009). "Corporate Culture, Not Technology, Drives Online Collaboration." Web Worker Daily.
    Mackie, S. (2009). "Invest in Collaborative Tools, Get More than Double Return, Study Says." Web Worker Daily.
    Idinopulos, M. (2009). "Enterprise 2.0: Skip the Pilot." Socialtext.
    Carpenter, H. (2009). "Enterprise 2.0: Culture is as Culture Does." I'm Not Actually a Geek.
    Wilding, G. (2008). "AskNow's del.icio.us Useful Resources."
    Millen, D., et al. (200 ). "Social Bookmarking in the Enterprise." ACM Queue.
    Edwards, P. (2007). “How does your wiki grow?” Think Much.
    Albrycht, E. (2007). “Thinking About Wikis.” New Communications Review.
    Dembo, S. (2007). “Why Don't We Wiki Well?” Teach42.
    Suarez, L. (2007). “When Wikis Won't Work: 10 questions to ask before full adoption.” elusa.
    Wikipatterns. This is basically a best and worst practices site for wiki adoption. Check out all of the patterns and anti-patterns.
    CDC Idealab - take a look at the video on this page

    Optional
    Dennehy & Burke. (2009). "Intellipedia (video)." Enterprise 2.0 Conference.
    Pash, A. (2009). "Two-Minute Video Makes a lot of Sense of Google Wave." Lifehacker.
    Trapani, G. (2009). "Google Wave First Look." Lifehacker.

     

    Examples of Collaborative Tools

    Collaborative Document Creation Tools
    Google Docs
    Zoho
    Etherpad
    TextFlow

    Collaborative Planning Tools
    Twiddla
    Bubbl.us
    Dabbleboard
    Mindmeister

    Collaborative Communication Tools
    Meebo
    DimDim
    Skype
    Yuuguu
    Present.io

    File-Sharing Tools
    drop.io
    Box.net

    All-Around Collaboration Suites
    Google Wave
    Basecamp

    Things to Do

    1. Play with the examples listed above.
    2. Complete Exercise 6, due April 3. (Tag = exercise6)
    3. Write at least one blog post on one (or more) of the following topics (due April 3):

    1. What are some of the possible barriers to internal collaboration in organizations? (Tag = blogpostwk9n1)
    2. What technologies do you find most promising in facilitating internal collaboration and why? (Tag = blogpostwk9n2)
    3. Describe the impact you think organizational culture has on knowledge-sharing. (Tag = blogpostwk9n3)

    4. What do you think of Google Wave? (Tag = blogpostwk9n4)
    5. Write your own reflections on what you learned this week. (Tag = blogpostwk9n5)

    4. Write a blog post that includes a brief description of an article, technology, blog post, or other interesting resource outside of the classwork you've found that's related to that week's topic. Be sure to include a link to the resource (due April 3). (Tag = resourcewk9)

    5. Comment on at least two other people's blog posts (April 5).

    6. Submit your Community Dynamics paper topic to me for approval (due April 3).

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