Tag Archive for 'Collaboration tools'

What can the Facebook Model do for Your Enterprise?

Published by lynda on May 25, 2010 in Friday Breakfast Meetings. 0 Comments

Friday, June 4, 2010 at 7:30 - 9:30 a.m. Rebecca’s at Reservoir Place, Trapelo Road, Waltham.

TOPIC:   Business Users Want an Enterprise Equivalent to Facebook. What are the knowledge sharing attributes and features that make it so appealing in a work domain?

We hear from IT departments, consultants and analysts that workgroups and functional teams want “something like” Facebook to aid with collaboration to facilitate their work. For those who have a good grasp of all of the Facebook operational features and mechanics, we hope you will come to enlighten the group about why and when it works so well to keep people in the loop. For those who are Facebook agnostics or novices, what do you want to know?

Ideally, we will come up with a hit list of “best attributes” for consideration when building out similar platforms within the enterprise and identify other tools that might have similar strengths packaged for the workplace.

Pick up your refreshments in the cafe and chat with others. Discussion begins at 8 AM.

Check out the notes from a very productive meeting.

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Using NING.com for Boston KM Forum or Your Enterprise

Published by lynda on November 17, 2009 in Friday Breakfast Meetings. 1 Comment

Friday, Dec. 4, 2009 at 7:30 - 9:30 a.m. Rebecca’s at Reservoir Place, Trapelo Road, Waltham.

TOPIC: We have set up an account for Boston KM Forum on NING.COM, a social networking and collaboration space. This blog will continue to be administered and managed for Boston KM Forum meeting information. However, we’d like to explore and learn about other tools that can be deployed at little or no cost by our members.

This meeting will be a learning and sharing experience and we expect everyone to come prepared to contribute and share their ideas. You can check out the initial page (with nothing yet implemented) at http://bostonkmforum.ning.com/ . When you sign up for the meeting, you will be sent an invitation to join so you can begin exploring. At the meeting, we’ll talk about how it can be used by the Boston KM Forum or for other enterprise use by our members.

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Tag Me! Social Bookmarking in the Enterprise

Published by lynda on August 25, 2008 in Thursday Afternoon Meetings. 6 Comments

Thursday, September 18, 2008, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m, Microsoft, 201 Jones Rd., Sixth Floor, Waltham, MA 02451 , Waltham. Directions. [NOTE: New Location!]

SPEAKER: Laurie E. Damianos, The MITRE Corporation, Lead Artificial Intelligence Engineer

TOPIC: In today’s fast-paced world, every knowledge worker needs to stay ahead in their area of expertise. But staying ahead of the pack is a key challenge with the explosion of information sources. How can people easily find relevant resources and quickly find them again? How do people share useful resources with their colleagues? How can people discover new topics, experts in other fields, and new information? MITRE is piloting “collective intelligence” tools to help users find resources and share them across the corporation. The goals of this effort are to leverage the wisdom of the crowds and increase the number of access points to relevant content. MITRE has built and fielded a social bookmarking tool – allowing users to bookmark, tag, and share resources as well as discover experts and new topics. Laurie will discuss findings on adoption, usage, and social influences and highlight some of the challenges we faced integrating this exploratory technology into the enterprise. PRESENTATION

BIOGRAPHY: Laurie Damianos has been with MITRE for over 10 years. Her interests focus on human-computer interaction, specifically design and development of usable and useful systems for real problems and real users, applications of user-centered studies, and research into evaluation methodologies. She is currently investigating social software and is involved in fielding onomi, a social bookmarking tool on MITRE’s intranet. Ms Damianos has degrees in mathematics, computer science, and the biological sciences from Carnegie Mellon University.

PLEASE Register even if you are not certain you can attend so we have an accurate estimate of attendees for handouts.

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Boston KM Forum Blog - A Case Study in How to Share What We Know

Published by lynda on May 20, 2008 in Friday Breakfast Meetings. 0 Comments

Friday, June 6th, 2008 at 7:30 - 9:30 a.m. Rebecca’s at Reservoir Place, Trapelo Road, Waltham.

Now that the Boston KM Forum has a blog, it is easier to upload and link content related to each event held by the Forum. Members are also writing about our meetings in their own blogs and linking to events recently held. So, in addition to meeting presentations, bibliographies and topical discussions registered in affiliated blogs we are accumulating more content and commentary about members and themes. More than a year ago we built a taxonomy for KM topics. It is used to tag meeting notices but only by our blog administrators. It is time to have the next discussion about how can we make the blog site more content rich and organized for helpful navigation. What do you think we should be including on this site? How should it be categorized? How should we handle incoming links and event slide shows? What else should we be considering? We will make this meeting a working session, so bring your ideas and commentary.

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