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Collaboration 2.0: Technology and Best Practices for Successful Collaboration in a Web 2.0 World

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David Coleman- Collaboration Expert

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About Me:

David Coleman, Founder and Managing Director of Collaborative Strategies has been involved with groupware, collaborative technologies, online communities and social networks since 1989. He is a frequent public speaker, an industry analyst, and author of books, blogs, newsletters and magazine articles on these topics.

David has worked with a wide range of collaboration vendors from Silicon Valley start-ups like OpenACircle.com to larger vendors like Microsoft, IBM/Lotus and Adobe. He works with these vendors on strategy, marketing, usability and even materials for demand generation (webinars, blogs and white papers).

He and his team have led several organizations through the process of determining their readiness for collaboration, social networks, and online communities, as well as the appropriate business processes to which these technologies can be applied and the best tools to use in each case. He has worked with organizations like: NASA, PacifiCare, British Telecom, Motorola, General Dynamics, Network Appliance, Logitech and Cisco to determine their internal strategy for collaboration, KM, and social networking.

David is the author/editor of Groupware Technologies and Applications (Prentice-Hall, 1995) and Groupware: Collaborative Strategies for Corporate LANs and the Intranet (Prentice-Hall 1997). Most recently he has co-authored his third book called Collaboration 2.0, Technology and Best Practices for Successful Collaboration in a Web 2.0 World (HappyAbout Publishing, 2008). He currently writes the “Collaboration Blog” that can be found at www.collaborate.com and can be reached at: 415-282-9197 or davidc@collaborate.com

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David Coleman's Blog

Trust is not enough!

For many years I thought trust was critical for collaboration or for distributed teams to be effective, but after attending the NewWoW symposium in the summer of 2008 which looked at the effects of culture, I began to understand that trust was just not enough. Also, I can easily think of situations where people on a team or committee did not trust each other yet worked together for a common goal. Just look at any standards committee for a good example of this.

From Wikipdia: Trust is a relation… Continue

Posted on January 5, 2009 at 10:49am —