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How to Disagree

How to Disagree

The web is turning writing into a conversation. Twenty years ago, writers wrote and readers read. The web lets readers respond, and increasingly they do—in comment threads, on forums, and in their own blog posts.

Many who respond to something disagree with it. That’s to be expected. Agreeing tends to motivate people less than disagreeing. And when you agree there’s less to say. You could expand on something the author said, but he has probably already explored the most interesting implications. When you disagree you’re entering territory he may not have explored.

The result is there’s a lot more disagreeing going on, especially measured by the word. That doesn’t mean people are getting angrier. The structural change in the way we communicate is enough to account for it. But though it’s not anger that’s driving the increase in disagreement, there’s a danger that the increase in disagreement will make people angrier. Particularly online, where it’s easy to say things you’d never say face to face.

Paul Ghaham wrote this excelent essay

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Lessons from LeBron James and Michael Jordan on Teamwork

Careers: Lessons from LeBron James and Michael Jordan on Teamwork

As a leader, you need to set up a work environment that suits the talent you have on your team. If some members need structure, give them structure. If others desire autonomy, you need to make sure you give it to them. Of equal importance is role clarity. Team members must know what they’re responsible for or they’re going to become frustrated and nine times out of 10, they’ll fail.

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Somos Azules

Desde ya hace un tiempo Telefónica, la compañía española líder en telecomunicaciones en el mundo, cuenta entre sus filas a unos 200.000 empleados, Si se tienen en cuenta a los ex empleados de la compañía, entre los que me incluyo, se podrían contar hasta 300.000 personas relacionadas con la compañía Azul.

Con operaciones sobre Europa y Latinoamérica principalmente, esta compañía no deja de expandir sus fronteras y tampoco de sumar profesionales a sus filas, ahora más allá del mundo de habla hispana, con la recientes adquisiciones en Europa como la de la compañía O2 en Inglaterra..

Dentro de Telefónica y fuera de ella también, empleados y ex empleados de la compañía, teniendo en cuenta estos números y el potencial de sus empleados, están dando forma a una red social y comunidad para mantener el contacto, compartir experiencias y conocimientos, con la visón de apoyar el crecimiento profesional entre pares.

Esta primera forma de red social o comunidad esta apoyada en el esfuerzo y la visión de algunos empleados y ex empleados únicamente, ya que no es una iniciativa oficial aún.

La comunidad en sus primeros estadios de desarrollo y en primera instancia esta enrolando a las personas relacionadas con Telefónica en un movimiento blogger que se autodenomina “Somos Azules”.

Entre los visionarios empleados de Telefónica que están al frente de la movida esta Rafa Montoya (http://www.rafamontoya.com), un jefe de producto en Telefónica Móviles España.

Somos Azules esta enrolando empleados y ex empleados de Telefónica para formar una comunidad blogger. Somos Azules ofrece a los que se quieran iniciar en el blogging las facilidades para que puedan experimentar sin mayores inconvenientes.

Hasta el 12 de Julio del 2006, Somos Azules con Nokia como sponsor están sorteando un fantástico Nokia N80. El teléfono mas completo que hoy podemos aspirar para usar servicios de voz y servicios de datos.

La dirección de la comunidad blogger Azul es http://www.somos-azules.com y cuenta con unos 150 enrolados en 7 diferentes paises.

Por mi parte estoy contribuyendo orgullosamente a esta comunidad con mis contenidos y con mi colaboración.

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What Are The Key Traits Of Ideal Online Collaborators?

Online Collaboration: What Are The Key Traits Of Ideal Online Collaborators? - Online Collaboration and Web Conferencing Breaking News - Kolabora.com

A recent survey conducted jointly by Mitch Ditkoff and Tim Moore of Idea Champions, Carolyn Allen of Innovation Solution Center and Dave Pollard of Meeting of Minds reveals that most people would rather have inexperienced people with a positive attitude than highly experienced people who lack enthusiasm, candor or commitment, on a collaborative work team.

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Building Sustainable Communities Through Network Building

Building Sustainable Communities Through Network Building

The article is a nice intro to social networking analysis by one of the masters, Valids Krebs.

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Mind/Brain Learning Principles

Mind/Brain Learning Principles by Renate Nummela Caine and Geoffrey Caine

“It is now clear that throughout our lives, our brain/minds change in response to their engagement with others - so much so that individuals must always be seen to be integral parts of larger social systems. Indeed, part of our identity depends on establishing community and finding ways to belong. Learning, therefore, is profoundly influenced by the nature of the social relationships within which people find themselves.”

Source: elearningpost.

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Play your way to your best work

The Occupational Adventure (sm): Play your way to your best work

¿Pasión, diversión, satisfacción, son términos asociados a tus sentimientos en el trabajo?

Aunque sea en alguna medida estos sentimientos tienen que tener relación con tu “trabajo” para poder desarrollar tu potencial.

El trabajo tiene que ser divertido, entretenido, creativo, pero no solo debemos esperar que nuestro jefe nos asigne tareas divertidas, entretenidas o que requieran de nuestra creatividad, tenemos que sentir ganas de desarrollar el trabajo de esa forma.

Siempre podemos cambiar nuestro entorno para sentir que, de alguna manera, el trabajo produce en nosotros sentimientos asociados a la satisfacción, a la pasión y porque no a la diversión.

La forma en que trabajamos es determinante para tener oportunidades de destacarnos en lo que hacemos.

La forma en que trabajamos en equipo es determinante para sentirnos bien. Los seres humanos somos sociales por naturaleza y necesitamos de la interacción en grupos.

Creo que uno de los sentimientos mas intensos al trabajar en equipo es el sentimiento de unidad. Esa sensación que producen los sentimientos de confianza, identificación y respaldo del grupo que sentimos al tratar de conseguir un objetivo común, es muy fuerte.

Al margen de los éxitos o fracasos que pueden tener los grupos de trabajo, lo que siempre queda es esa sensación de haberlo intentado juntos, de trabajar codo a codo para lograrlo.

En resumen, tus oportunidades dependen de que puedas desarrollar tu trabajo con pasión, ganas, diversión y sientas satisfacción, no solo importa tu capacidad, tus oportunidades también dependen de tu actitud, de tus ganas de cambiar el mundo cada día, comenzando por tu trabajo.

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On trust and communication

Trust is the bandwidth of communication.

Karl-Erik Sveiby
Consultant & Professor in Knowledge Management

Source: Gurteen

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i-neighbors

i-neighbors

I-neighbors is your neighborhood’s home on the Internet. I-neighbors is part of an ongoing project in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (”MIT”).

The goal of this project is to help neighborhood residents communicate, share information and become involved in their communities.

Use i-neighbors for:

  • Meet and communicate with your neighbors.
  • Find neighbors with similar interests.
  • Share information on local companies and services.
  • Organize and advertise local events.
  • Vocalize local concerns and ideas.

The concept behind is also know as proximity networks.

Only for USA and CDN! :(

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Weblog as Online Community Management Tool

Weblog as Online Community Management Tool

Recently Lee Lefever wrote about the differences between weblogs and message boards inside online communities. In the comments of that entry, a reader asked for more information about the best uses of the resources inside an online community. This entry is focused on the weblog as an online community management tool.

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The Leader’s Role In Innovation

Rattle The Cage���The Leader’s Role In Innovation…

Every leader has to wrestle with the demand to innovate. Without innovation, an organization or community will struggle to remain relevant in today’s turbulent business and social environments.

Source: Rattle The Cage

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elise.com: On the Job: An Overview of the Weblog Tools Market

elise.com: On the Job: An Overview of the Weblog Tools Market

Weblogs, although often described as online diaries, are a much more interesting trend than that label would imply. Yes, weblogs are personal journals on the web, and as such they represent the breadth and depth of human interest and knowledge. Not only do blogs allow millions of people to easily and instantaneously publish ideas to websites, most weblogs incorporate interactive features that let others easily comment to those sites, thus transforming the static web into millions of dynamic conversations

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Tejas Software Consulting Newsletter : Linking Up on LinkedIn

Tejas Software Consulting Newsletter, April/May 2004

Linking Up on LinkedIn, it’s an interesting article about the experience of Danny Faught at LinkedIn, the bussiness social networking site.

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HBS Working Knowledge: Career Effectiveness: Leveraging Your Team’s Interpersonal Skills

HBS Working Knowledge: Career Effectiveness: Leveraging Your Team’s Interpersonal Skills

What does it really mean to be good with people? This Harvard Business Review excerpt examines the “relational” aspect of business.

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Cost of Distrust

Individuals in higher-trust societies spend less to protect themselves from being exploited in economic transactions. Trust is an economical substitute for extensive contracts, litigation, and monitoring in transactions and thus economizes on transaction costs.

This quote taken from this paper, published by IBM, explain models of trust and reputation systems, Experimental Games for the design of reputation management systems

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Funless Professionals

Physiologically people are unable to sustain trust of each other without fun or at least contextually relevant happiness.
I agree that the problem comes when someone is an expert in jolly without being deeply caring and cogniscent of the community context, but fun like innovation, courage and love of people focusing on context is being thrown out of organisations by managers whose tangible measurements have no understanding of goodwill as the quality system communalising people relationships. Such funless professionals are destroying the systemic relationships that sustain an organisation’s wealth producing capabilities.

Chris Macrae - www.valuetrue.com

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PDN Participatory Democracy Networks

Participatory Democracy Networks

Oliver Sylvester-Bradley ha escrito una propuesta fantstica sobre democracia participativa basada en ideas tales como las redes sociales, las redes de proximidad y una nueva arquitectura de informacin basada en cdigo libre, que soporte la interaccin de individuos que pertenecen a un rea geogrfica determinada.

La idea es usar el poder del mundo virtual para cambiar el mundo real.

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Estar juntos

“Estar juntos es un comienzo.
Mantenernos juntos, un progreso.
Trabajar juntos, es un éxito.”

-Henry Ford-

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Kommein

De origen indo-europeo la palabra Kommein significa compartido por todos, deriva de la palabra Mei que significa cambio o intercambio y de la palabra Kom que significa Con y es la antecesora de la palabra Comunidad.

Esta palabra, comunidad, esta asociada a varios sentimientos buenos, como la empatia, la confianza, el respeto, el amor, por lo que significa algo bueno, es bueno estar en comunidad, sea cual sea la comunidad en la que pensemos.

En bueno sentir pertenencia a una comunidad y es bueno pensar en desarrollar y sostener una comunidad, es una buena forma de cultivar esos sentimientos que nacen al compartir algo con todos.

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Leading from Within Means Learning to Manage Your Ego and Emotions - Knowledge@Wharton

Leading from Within Means Learning to Manage Your Ego and Emotions - Knowledge@Wharton

For the individual business leader, success should be – “having meaning in your life, having love and compassion, self-esteem and a sense of connection with your own creativity.” Absent that, “egocentric leaders become most insecure, anchoring their self esteem in external things such as money and power.”

Deepak Chopra

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