April 2009
8 posts
Forester WebOffice report http://bit.ly/d6Tio
Modes of Conversation
Until recently, there were three typical approaches to holding a conversation on the web: instant messaging, email and newsgroups.
A year ago I used to draw the following diagram:
I argued that these different channels fitted different modes of conversation along a single axis of formality and that conversations only ever became more formal. IM’s are on-the spot-conversations I have...
Watching my 2.5 year old son play with others reminds me collaboration is learnt and ritualistic.
The Dawning of the Age of Transparency?
I think a theme has emerged in some of my posts:
Transparency is the best mechanism for preventing and resolving crises
Information is becoming ubiquitous (ie. greater transparency is inevitable)
Neither of these are startling insights, but I’ll go further and posit that we are moving towards an age where our lives and the lives of businesses and institutions are transparent, and...
Conversation about collaboration with Peter Clark →
1 tag
Different kinds of Platform
I was pitching a new business idea to a friend last night. His first response was:
“You used the dirty word”.
I had to think about it.
“Platform?” I replied.
“Yes”.
For years it has been wisdom that the use of the word ‘Platform’ in pitches to VC’s is poison. I went into defensive mode.
“Google stopped ‘Platform’...
The Brown cabal motto: smears, not ideas | Alice... →
http://www.pcw.co.uk/personal-computer-world/news/2... →