Today, the Social Media has a very big role to play in all business and marketing circles. Social media refers to bringing together of various activities which help in integrating technology, social interaction, and the construction of words, pictures, videos and audio into a seamless entity.
It can take many different forms, including Internet forums, message […]

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Coming back to the debate on use of various technologies in the corporate world today, when we consider the international virtual teams some people think that there has been much hype about the use of Web 2.0. However, the picture seems to be a little different in reality.
It is observed that the social network technologies […]

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Often the term mass collaboration refers to efforts made at a large scale with everybody getting involved into it. What we see today is that as a result of increasing mass collaboration efforts the way the world works has drastically changed. Actually, it has threatened to shake up established business models in various industries at […]

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Coming to the end of the debate on knowing the difference between Knowledge Management and Intellectual Capital, the often accepted conclusion is that effective Knowledge Management can be more than just capturing, storing, and organizing information. All such elements form part of the tools and processes that make up Knowledge Management especially stressing that the […]

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Coming to the final part of the discussion on the contributing factors in building Corporate Tacit Knowledge Into A Strategic Asset, the most important among them is encouraging a wiki or Wikipedia culture. This means encouraging a culture of knowledge distribution via wikis. By doing so it develops an informal culture encouraging the staff to […]

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 One has seen quite a bit of debate in the public domain regarding the OXML issue. One can read related articles here, here and hereI think India voting against Microsoft’s OXML being adopted as a standard, is not a good move. It will be a good move for India if it adopts OXML along with […]

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Bringing back the discussion on the contributing factors in building Corporate Tacit Knowledge Into A Strategic Asset, for doing so it would involve people identifying someone, besides the subject matter expert, who possesses a need to know.
It could be in the form of a colleague, who will inherit the responsibility, a younger protégé or […]

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AlooTechie.com reports that there is something called BlogBard, which will allow us to convert our blog posts into audio.  In some ways this is great – especially for all those long posts that we all want to read but also want some other work out of way at the same time.  However, not so great […]

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Last week I was talking with this colleague of mine, who has been trying to get me to blog and take to social media (don’t know why they call it that – is rest of the media anti-social?) 
Now while I like blogs, read some of them and have nothing against them, I cannot get myself to […]

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There is so much literature and news that we have read about OLPC and various perspectives associated with it.  Some of it, we have followed owing to our interest in the endeavor and related environment. There are agreements, disagreements, or plain neutrality of opinion.
This is what OLPC wiki says about the project, very nicely put.“The […]

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