Blog - Collaboration@Work

Your role towards a Personal EU era

Sun, 06 May 2007 08:07:06 +0200

Every member of every Living Lab has 4 essential roles in developing the European future:

1) Role as professional expert of something
2) Role as individual: an unique base unit of life and challenges
3) Role as private person with national citizenship and point of view
4) Role as citizen of the future European union.

I'd like to participate every EU-wide event to tell this and to try make every project itself to a good example towards a "Personal EU era". Unfortunately I don't have resources to do that. You who know the Personal EU initiative and like it: Your next presentation or comment in your next EU collaboration event could be essential support for new and better practices.

You are the key to a human-faced European union

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 09:20:29 +0200

Citizen-centricity is popular in today's European eloquence. The commission speaks about it. The parliament speaks about it. Seminar and conference themes and summarys speak about it. Proposals and projects speak about it. Headlines of regional, national and union-wide information society programmes speak about it.

But what has every time until now happened to it when it's time to make the speaches come true? The paragraphs and hierarchic organizations somehow just roll over the human-faced ideas: speaking as humans in decision making suddenly isn't fashion any more.

About orchestrating a Personal EU era

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:10:36 +0100

I wish I could be in the Living Labs workshop today. Just to see from your faces that you all are live persons, unique Living Labs.

In speaking about Living Labs I hope we don't forget, that we ourselves as citizensand professionals are the base unit of EU's success.

Naturally we have to work wonders, but nobody else will do it for us personnally.

That's why all 500 000 000 EU citizens have (the pleasure) to be essential on union level.

Personal EU now "at home": www.personaleu.eu

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:29:01 +0100

Until now you've found it on
www.personaleu.net - but to point out that I really want us all together to make the Personal EU era come true, I brought it home to .eu

Innovative Interactivity!

Kurt

Challenges of an EU citizen - Personal EU25 teams

Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:25:05 +0200

To become the worlds most advanced information society EU has to clearly realize something very "simple and stupid" on 500 million people's personal level: We all have someone like us or/and completing us in every EU country. Finding them in continuous personal team with them we could find good solutions to our problems and create competitive solutions for union- (and world-) wide benefit.

I strongly believe in an "Personal EU era" and will together with you show that it can successfully be done.

Get active, more practical

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:39:01 +0200

I have a feeling that we need to get down to some very practical , down to earth work, or we will continue to search for the best collaboration models for years.

- Collaboration
- Engineering
- Knowledge
- Leadership
- LivingLabs
- Logistics
- Media
- Mobility
- Rural
- SEEM
- Well-being-Services

What could be the first practical thing?

Is web 2.0 something new for CWE or just pure marketing?

Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:28:00 +0200

Looking at what said Tim Berners-Lee on Web 2.0: "nobody even knows what it means". There is an interesting article relating this story at http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060901-7650.html
which has been written by Nate Anderson.

Let me quote what TBL said "When asked if it's fair to say that the difference between the two might be fairly described as "Web 1.0 is about connecting computers, while Web 2.0 is about connecting people," Berners-Lee replied, "Totally not. Web 1.0 was all about connecting people. It was an interactive space, and I think Web 2.0 is of course a piece of jargon, nobody even knows what it means. If Web 2.0 for you is blogs and wikis, then that is people to people. But that was what the Web was supposed to be all along. And in fact, you know, this 'Web 2.0,' it means using the standards which have been produced by all these people working on Web 1.0."

Is the Collaboration Upperware a brain network?

Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:35:31 +0200

The term "middleware" has been widely used for many years while people are still using it with different meanings. Looking at Wikipedia, it is said:

"Middleware is computer software that connects software components or applications. It is used most often to support complex, distributed applications. It includes web servers, application servers, content management systems, and similar tools that support application development and delivery. Middleware is especially integral to modern information based on XML, SOAP, Web services, and service-oriented architecture."

Complexity

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:18:05 +0200

In order to systematically develop and connect the elements realized in the workshop, we need some theoretical approach for managing the inner complexity of the techno-social systems we are dealing with. It does exist an approach that was introduced by the working group for "Decentralised research and innovation". The model, developed by an Spanish researcher many years ago, is labelled as "OITP model"

New survey demonstrates that collaboration is a key driver of business performance

Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:11:44 +0200

A recent survey by Frost & Sullivan highlights the importance of collaboration as a key driver of business performance. The survey concludes that 36% of a company's performance is due to its Collaboration Index, more than twice the impact of a company's strategic orientation (16%) and more than five times the impact of market and technological turbulence influences (7%). This is a key finding because it empirically demonstrates that increased high-quality collaboration can improve business performance.

Is CWE related to Lisbonne Objectives and Knowledge Society?

Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:03:23 +0200

First of all, CWE acronym could be used with the meaning of "Collaborative Working Environments" but then it seems to be limited to the scope of workplace while the meaning of "Collaborative Web Environments" seems to me not limited to the workplace but rather broad enough to cover all the Knowledge Society scope which is directly related to the Lisbon objectives.

CWE as "Collaborative Web Environments" would allow EU citizens to really enter into the Knowledge Society if and only if every EU citizen can be provided with his own eSpace that would be built on "Collaborative Web Environments" principles and would provide networking services with other EU citizens and worldwide potential contacts.

Imagination and Creativity

Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:03:43 +0200

Lars Engman, Design Director at IKEA, was one of the speakers at the Design Management Institute’s two days seminar. He was offering a broad look at the evolution of the IKEA brand and discussed where the company finds new ideas.

Engman, from IKEA, was less concerned with branding strategy, instead emphasizing the importance of building creativity into the company. "Beautiful products are not all that difficult to develop," he says. "Producing them at an affordable price is what takes work."

Blogging and Collaborating

Sun, 11 Jun 2006 12:17:51 +0200

I believe the partnership on a European / Global scale is the most effective way to build the scale and a broad products and services portfolio necessary to compete globally and create value for clients.

* The combined effects of creative collaboration

The collaborative joint venture of United European bloggers can become an important step to strengthen our position in the market place and to enable us to offer the best state of the art solutions and services to our customers.

Error attempting one of the Collaboration@Work visualization examples

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:39:03 +0200

I tried this example:

Visualisation example 3 (http://www.ami-communities.net/bscw/wiki.cgi/572?op=mindmap) this is the hypergraph soft applied to the collaboration@work community folder. ...

The tool asked me to log-in, although I was already logged in and then I received the the following error message from BSCW:

Error: No access

You have insufficient access rights:
the given object "Collaboration@Work" does not allow the operation "Readers" for user hardisty.

Learning the Ami@Work and Frappr

Wed, 31 May 2006 09:15:59 +0200

I tested the Frapper Map:

* http://www.frappr.com/networkoflivinglabs

I'm learning the new AMI@Work communities’ website which is integrating

* shared workspace (BSCW),
* community wiki
* (MediaWiki) and blogging (Drupal)

These are the technologies used to make a single collaborative web platform.

I got into this place while I'd been encouraged to take a look at it at

* http://www.ami-communities.eu