Clip this article — Email is so five minutes ago — for clients and coworkers: Although all these tools are gaining momentum, it’s easy-to-use and practically free wikis that proponents say offer the promise of collaboration beyond e-mail, even though…
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Business Week: Email is so five minutes ago
by Allan Jenkins on November 26, 2005
A democracy of groups: a tremendous article by Beth Simone Noveck
by Allan Jenkins on November 10, 2005
First Monday is one of the few peer-reviewed journals on the Internet, and is, as far as I know, the only one devoted entirely to the Internet. It was originally Danish, so I started reading it from Issue One, in…
Is Wikipedia fundamentally flawed? Sure, but it’s no less useful for it.
by Allan Jenkins on November 2, 2005
Is Wikipedia fundamentally flawed? Andrew Orlowski, writing at The Register, believes Wikipedia to be Utopian, and cites Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales’ own post that some entries are “nearly unreadable crap”. PR colleague Jim Horton adds: “The wikipedia was born of…
Will internal corporate blogs outnumber external ones? It’s a no brainer.
by Allan Jenkins on October 25, 2005
Fredrik Wackå, the thinkingest blogger in Sweden, writes that he’s convinced internal blogs will outnumber external ones 10 or even 20 to 1. Reffing a study by the Economist Intelligence Unit, he notes what anyone who’s ever been in a…
Google Adopts Prediction Markets
by Allan Jenkins on September 27, 2005
First published, in slightly different form, at the MarComBlog of Auburn University. Last week, I wrote some about prediction markets. These are markets where hundreds, even thousands, of participants, each armed with “some” knowledge, pool their thinking to make better…
Trying Out the Wisdom of Crowds
by Allan Jenkins on September 19, 2005
“Summer Reading” is usually more of a wish than an accomplishment. But I managed a lot this summer; indeed my June Amazon shipment is wholly depleted. I like to read two or three related books in tandem, for the joy…
Lesson for Communicators: Grassroots Tsunami Team Remobilizes For Katrina
by Allan Jenkins on September 9, 2005
What can ordinary people do in the face of catastrophe? Jeremy Pepper and Richard Edelman believe natural disasters are events that leave bloggers and wiki-builders powerless. Warren Bickford believes there’s little that IABC can do. (Addendum: Jeff Jarvis is hard…
Rise of the Micro Multinational
by Allan Jenkins on August 29, 2005
Hal Varian discusses the rise of the micro multinational in this NYT article. In it he describes how businesses with a half-dozen employees spread across 3 continents can still do business effectively, using socia media and micro-media. He goes on…
Study Shows Instant Messaging Builds Workplace Relations
by Allan Jenkins on August 29, 2005
This may come as no surprise to those experienced in internal communication, but the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication recently published a Korean study indicating that use of IM builds cross-company relationships. It’s an academic report and hardly likely to…
Conversation Clouds vs. Blog Rankings & Page Rank
by Allan Jenkins on August 21, 2005
PubSub recently finished tearing up and replanting its LinkRanks service; I, for one, like the new look & the results presentation. And while I don’t understand how the rankings are calculated, a few test runs on the bloggers I know…
