Comments on: The Connection Collaboration Continuum

By: Pankaj

Pankaj — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:24:54 +0000

Lovely article. I would show your article to someone who sees microblogging as a new collaborative alternative. At best twitter allows you to connect and communicate, but “collaboration” involves production of new information that is just not possible in the limited space allowed by microblogging. As an aside, you might want to see an article I had written with the same title as yours “the Collaboration continuum”, which might go a little way to answering what kind of collaborative tool suits different kinds of business needs – http://www.ebizq.net/topics/saas/features/11873.html

By: Patti Anklam » Net Work and Openwork

Patti Anklam » Net Work and Openwork — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 16:10:15 +0000

[...] The Connection Collaboration Continuum, about the pattern I’m seeing in how social platforms (which I would define as any web-based site that provides some set of collaboration and social media tools) [...]

By: Brent McConnell

Brent McConnell — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:24:45 +0000

Interesting observations. I’m the Community Manager for Kablink Open Collaboration Platform and I urge your readers to visit kablink.org and check out Teaming. Teaming has an unique perspective on building teams and sharing content and tasks within a team while also providing social networking features that provide activity streams for teams, workspaces, and other users.

By: Richard Lindstedt

Richard Lindstedt — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:48:24 +0000

You can read about a company that has found the balance here: http://www.theappgap.com/novell-teaming-brings-kempinski-hotels-into-enterprise-20.html … and here: http://www.novell.com/success/kempinski_hotels.html

By: Can social and collaborative networks be combined? « Sustainable Teams: Connecting Voices of Change

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:06:48 +0000

[...] Patti Anklam goes so far as to talk about a tension between connection and collaboration and argues that there is a need to balance both in an organization. Her lesson: [Y]ou can develop a good social network inside the organization to satisfy the needs for connecting, but when you want to collaborate, you need a tool that provides more rigor for content and task management. [...]

By: Dennis Ashendorf

Dennis Ashendorf — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:50:36 +0000

What works well for free is http://www.pelotronics.com for collaboration and yammer.com for private social network. Great combo.