Comments on: Plow Under Those Cube Farms! http://www.theappgap.com/2308.html Apps, Strategies, and Best Practices for Web-based work Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:56:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jenny Ambrozek http://www.theappgap.com/2308.html/comment-page-1#comment-40094 Jenny Ambrozek Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:45:53 +0000 http://www.theappgap.com/?p=2308#comment-40094 Jim, thanks for the pointer to the HBR article. Your GenY comments reminded me about a terrific presentation at Enterprise 2.0 Boston 2008 by Sean Dennehy and Don Burke, two CIA employees driving Intellipedia, a "Web 2.0 collaboration environment created by the Department of National Intelligence (DNI) for the intelligence community". http://snurl.com/quh36 They deflated assumptions about Gen Y'ers being agents of change in organizations by sharing their experience that newer younger staff members tend to be less active Intellipedia contributors. Why? Because they are focused on fitting in and emulating the practices of established staff members and were hence conservative about participating openly. Dennehy and Burke noted that the most active Intellipedia contributor was actually somebody in their 60"s close to retirement. Jim, thanks for the pointer to the HBR article. Your GenY comments reminded me about a terrific presentation at Enterprise 2.0 Boston 2008 by Sean Dennehy and Don Burke, two CIA employees driving Intellipedia, a “Web 2.0 collaboration environment created by the Department of National Intelligence (DNI) for the intelligence community”. http://snurl.com/quh36

They deflated assumptions about Gen Y’ers being agents of change in organizations by sharing their experience that newer younger staff members tend to be less active Intellipedia contributors. Why? Because they are focused on fitting in and emulating the practices of established staff members and were hence conservative about participating openly. Dennehy and Burke noted that the most active Intellipedia contributor was actually somebody in their 60″s close to retirement.

]]> By: Rotkapchen http://www.theappgap.com/2308.html/comment-page-1#comment-39931 Rotkapchen Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:17:06 +0000 http://www.theappgap.com/?p=2308#comment-39931 Thanks for the confirmation of what we attempted to achieve as part of Web 1.0 -- a shift in the way we work. Other prior examples http://twurl.nl/5fi251 But it's actually not a matter of one over the other. It's always both: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/95/open_essay.html?page=0%2C1&partner=rss. Not to mention there's a gross oversimplification in this model -- that the people who are co-located actually have anything to do with each other's work. In today's economy, that's actually typically not the case. And moving people around physically to support such a scenario is also too costly. Thanks for the confirmation of what we attempted to achieve as part of Web 1.0 — a shift in the way we work. Other prior examples http://twurl.nl/5fi251

But it’s actually not a matter of one over the other. It’s always both: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/95/open_essay.html?page=0%2C1&partner=rss.

Not to mention there’s a gross oversimplification in this model — that the people who are co-located actually have anything to do with each other’s work. In today’s economy, that’s actually typically not the case. And moving people around physically to support such a scenario is also too costly.

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