If students were taught effective collaboration in school, we’d reduce the number of meetings in the working world by 85% (or thereabouts). Instead, we invent new ways to ensure isolation during tests.
Context: dinner conversation about testing centers with individual video surveillance and biometric scanners.
The trick is in knowing what kind of collaboration you need and how to swap seamlessly between modes as required. A lot of people who don’t understand collaboration wind up using email as their primary tool, despite email being very badly suited for the work. If you’re going to collaborate with other reporters, you must set up your collaboration systems and ensure that everyone is familiar about what to use, when and how, before your project truly kicks off.
Ohours. Super lightweight scheduling tool.
Tungle.me. Lightweight scheduling tool that syncs with your existing calendar to indicate availability. Looks wicked awesome.
BigBlueButton. Open source video conferencing and web collaboration built for higher education (via CUNY Academic Commons)
The Oregonian to play nice with local bloggers and independent news site. Project to watch.
Min set up a Jabber server with authentication against Active Directory so everyone automatically has an account and I feel like a little kid on Christmas Day.
Moving to a Staff Blog. Principal moves all-staff emails to a dedicated blog. Advantages: information is archived and searchable, and comments are more efficient than email threads.
In preparation for the upcoming semester at CUNY, we’re putting together a guide to popular web collaboration tools and identifying ways they might be used in the classroom. In house, we’ll offer blogs for student and classroom use from a WordPress 3.0 multisite instance. On… Continue reading →
At TechCrunch Disrupt earlier today, Scott Karp announced Publish2 News Exchange, a product we hope will be an elegant way for news organizations to collaborate. Specifically, P2X offers scalable content-sharing networks for newspapers, and affords online-only publications the opportunity to have their content syndicated in… Continue reading →