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Sunday, March 09, 2008

Collaboration Tools

Good stuff, patterns to what I've been trying.
Read it

Running an Office by Wiki and E-Mail - US News and World Report:

"Wikis, blogs, E-mail, and other new technologies are reshaping how customers, workers, and companies interact—and making it much cheaper and easier to be in touch. In his new book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (Penguin), Clay Shirky zeroes in on which tools are best suited for various tasks. Excerpts from a chat with U.S. News:

Shirky recommends wikis for developing a consensus.

What's the thesis of the book?
One of the underappreciated revolutions that the Internet is bringing about is the ability for groups to communicate together and to do things together. In particular, you get groups doing it who don't have to look or operate like traditional organizations."

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