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Re: Microsoft Is Sending Collaboration Loopy

johnt — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 20:31:25 -0000

Great article Sam...at work we are big users of both Teams and Yammer...

I certainly wouldn't type the rapid msgs I do in Teams if I was in Yammer...I like that in Teams there is no following people feature...if there was people would have to put up with the numerous ping pong messages that I do all day around content creation etc...I'd feel conscious I'm polluting their following feed

If I imagine a fictional scenario where Yammer had it's own group feature called "projects", I would hope that if I'm following a person, I would not see their project posts...but I'm happy to see their regular group posts as there's more chance that I'll have more context and that they are more appealing to a greater audience. If I wanted to see their project group posts, then I'd visit that project myself to have a look, and maybe join it if I were interested

I posted back in 2013 about this signal/noise scenario
https://johntropea.tumblr.c...

I look forward to more integration betweens Teams and Yammer :)

Re: Snippets - This is a totally amazing video!! Here’s some...

johnt — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 06:57:21 -0000

Kind of fractal like??

What is Seb Paquet's social network compact post

Re: Yammer Plus SharePoint Equals Complete Collaboration

johnt — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 22:24:21 -0000

Take a look at SAP JAM

- Free form short bursts of communication

- Content creation (blogs, forums, document management)

- Wikis to build your own webpages (also as a landing page for a group space)

- and Structured Collaboration tools for decision making and planning

I don't work for SAP JAM, but I have researched nearly every ESN...I just wonder how well Yammer and Sharepoint integrate to form a suite that SAP JAM does so well

I know with most suite products that each module is usually mediocre compared to more focused products that do one thing well like Yammer...but in my opinion SAP JAM is good all round

Re: Stowe Boyd, The collaborative tool manifestation of teams is...

johnt — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:11:31 -0000

At last...something more in tune with how work really gets done

Here are my thoughts Stowe

http://johntropea.tumblr.co...

Re: Stowe Boyd, Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

johnt — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 08:26:27 -0000

Something related "Tyranny was the solution to what was essentially a communications problem"
http://johntropea.tumblr.co...

"The mass societies had many more decisions to make, and no way of making them in the old, egalitarian way. Their huge numbers made any attempt at discussing the question as equals impossible, so the only ones that survived and flourished were the ones that became brutal hierarchies."

...in comes tech

"Modern democracy first appeared in the West only because the West was the first part of the world to develop mass communications. It was a technological advantage, not a cultural one"

Re: Collaboration Isn't Working: What We Have Here is a Chasm

johnt — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 08:57:21 -0000

Some more on this Deb http://johntropea.tumblr.co...

Re: Collaboration Isn't Working: What We Have Here is a Chasm

johnt — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:02:28 -0000

Yes there is certainty with email...newbies on social nets don't quite know who has received their message, etc.. here's an example that even a power user like me has trouble with https://plus.google.com/108...

Re: Stowe Boyd, Abductive reasoning is the only sort that works...

johnt — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 23:10:41 -0000

Dave Snowden has lots to say on this

http://johntropea.tumblr.co...

"With deduction there is only possible answer, it can be computed.

With induction we can predict a range of events based on what we already see.

Abduction on the other hand…is all about choosing between different narratives, or allowing competing narratives to run in practice to test for coherence, another way of saying safe-fail experimentation.

Re: Emailing with @elsua?

johnt — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 23:55:46 -0000

good post...here's some related thoughts I shared back in April http://libraryclips.blogsom...

Re: What’s the 30-sec elevator pitch for enterprise social tools?

johnt — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 02:31:46 -0000

Not really sure what you mean Deb?

Re: Social Business: It is NOT Culture. Or Technology. But Maslow Gets It

johnt — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 10:08:48 -0000

Haha...I thought it was for breakfast
http://johntropea.tumblr.co... article Deb...from a workers POV I think it's about belonging, having impact, autonomy to make decisions, ownership, feeling challenged and of course connected...I think business goals can result obliquely...focus on the workers, and performance will change (of course it's not black and white)http://johntropea.tumblr.co... None of Maslow’s needs can be met without social connection http://johntropea.tumblr.co...

Re: Information Overload is a Cop-Out

johnt — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:57:08 -0000

My issue is I like too much stuff...so it's not just about filter failure for me

Interesting comment about the lawyers reaction when their librarian is no longer their to filter, but yet complain about the tuning of the filter when they are there...I find the same with "communication"...like "we need more communication as not everyone is in the loop in our organisation", then in comes activity feeds, and it's "there's too much communication" WTF...but they have a point, activity feeds need to improve filtering and sorting.

Blogged

http://johntropea.tumblr.co...

Yikes I didn't realise this is an old post!

Re: Employees don’t have time to waste narrating their work

johnt — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 23:40:41 -0000

Really good post...as usual your pragmatic view is essential in these areas of human behaviour and constraints.

There is a blur between "narrating your work" and observable work"...the former is more an explicit update, whereas the latter is actually within the process of doing the work (ie. there is nothing to update yet as you are still doing the work)

When you talk about activities in 3rd party applications appearing in your activity stream, and perhaps even the ability to comment and take actions within embedded objects in the stream; this is the realm of "observable work", it's not an update at all, it's simply doing work.

Now if your boss or colleague "follow" you, they may know exactly what you are up to right now, without you having to microblog or blog an update (sometimes you don't have to narrate your work, if your work is already observable)

I'm not saying "narrating your work" is not necessary, I'm just saying sometimes if others observe your work, they will know the latest without you having to narrate your work...but even on these occassions you still may want to narrate your work for reporting, reflection purposes.

Your example of 3rd party app activity within the activity stream is not the only example of observable work. It can happen in simply microblogging conversations.
If I'm on a group task...my responsibility may be to speak to some people in the business to help me with some information. Example - Just say I microblog a post to a guy in IT about some technical stuff...after the conversation I may ATmention the people in the group task updating them about my conversation with the IT guy. BUT, if they follow me, they would have already seen my conversation with the IT guy, due to my work being observable.

I still think a narrating your work type update is needed as not all work is observable (ie. me an IT guy may have add phone conversations, etc..)

I posted on this a while back
http://libraryclips.blogsom...

Re: Email Is Crushing Us, Can Activity Streams Free Us?

johnt — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:52:05 -0000

@Justin yeun I'm impressed by your comment that has led me to FMYI. MangoApps has mark read/unread, but I haven't seen show me posts since I was last here...I like the clear and simple filter posts by person
Great post! The enterprise is a different context to facebook...we need ways to make sure important stuff doesn't stream by. Sooner or later we will have activity stream overload, that's why we need filters just like we see in email: save items in folders/tags, flag for follo-up, filters, sorting. We will get less email as we are not pushed stuff, instead we choose to follow it...if you leave a comment you always are notified of the next comment, which is similar to reply-all, but at least we can unfollow the thread.

But this reduction in emails is dwarfed by the river of posts we see based on following lots of people...we will in-fact increase overload. But then who cares, activity streams don't have mark read/unread, they are not for important stuff, if stuff streams by who cares...WRONG...the whole idea is activity streams are both for awareness and doing work, just like the email client is being used.

Perhaps the idea is activity streams will help email be more sacred ie. just for essential content we need to work on...but the thing is enterprise activity streams are where you follow news and questions but also where you do work...it's all mixed, just like it was all mixed in email.

I can forsee in the future activity streams will be feature rich as email clients, as well as still offering private conversations...and then one day interoperability between products. Only then will email clients start to fade.

Been thinking about managing activity streams lately and decided to post on it the other day, have more posts coming up

http://libraryclips.blogsom...

Re: Email Is Crushing Us, Can Activity Streams Free Us?

johnt — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 08:24:29 -0000

Great post!

The enterprise is a different context to facebook...we need ways to make sure important stuff doesn't stream by. Sooner or later we will have activity stream overload, that's why we need filters just like we see in email: save items in folders/tags, flag, filters, sorting.

We will get less email as we are not pushed stuff, instead we choose to follow it...if you leave a comment you always are notified of the next comment, which is similar to reply-all, but at least we can unfollow the thread. But this reduction in emails is dwarfed by the river of posts we see based on following lots of people...we will in-fact increase overload.

But then who cares, activity streams don't have mark read/unread, they are not for important stuff, if stuff streams by who cares...WRONG...the whole idea is activity streams are both for awareness and doing work, just like the email client is being used.
Perhaps the idea is activity streams will help email be more sacred ie. just for essential content we need to work on, and activity stream will take care of occupational spam where it instead becomes self-serve ie. you choose to "follow". But the thing is enterprise activity streams are where you follow news and questions but also where you do work...it's all mixed, just like it was all mixed in email.

Been thinking about managing activity streams lately and decided to post on it the other day, have more posts coming up
http://libraryclips.blogsom...

Re: Can you really design the user experience?

johnt — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:02:14 -0000

Engineer, design...these are similar words in this context

Re: Can you really design the user experience?

johnt — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:11:14 -0000

Hi Andrew,

Yes it's kind of stating the obvious, we can only do so much...that's why I like this post http://johntropea.tumblr.co...
"Designers design occasions for experiences; experiences themselves are personal.

That’s why different people having different experiences in (what are supposed to be) the same situations

Ah, but there’s the clue: the situation isn’t the same for all participants because each of us brings a unique set of perceptions – perceptions rooted in unique personal histories – to everything we experience.Technically, most designers are attempting to design meaning, not experience.…how can designers create opportunities for meaningful experiences for people they don’t know? By paying close attentions to patterns."

Re: Complexity is different than systems thinking

johnt — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:24:06 -0000

"The disordered domain recognizes the essential inauthenticity to any typology of human experience so disorder is the state of not knowing which of the domains you are in (and you may be in several)"

http://www.cognitive-edge.c...

Re: Polarization from categorisation

johnt — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:52:58 -0000

thx for your cryptic comment

Re: The challenges of complex systems are predicaments, not problems

johnt — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:46:53 -0000

Yes they are not problems, they just are, and we have to navigate them

We usually want to solve complex predicaments as if they are complicated problems...rather there's so many factors (most unknown) at play that we never actually deal with them properly or holistically.

According to one framework complicated problems are attacked by expert analysis (sense-analyse-respond), whereas complex is more (probe-sense-respond). Here's a good example http://morealtitude.wordpre...

Re: The difference between motivation and follow-through

johnt — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:48:34 -0000

Good stuff Brian...nothing in life is hard and fast, but as a loose principal I think it's a good one to get you thinking and reflecting on your situation to get some momentum and perhaps make a decision

Re: Core Principles for the New Economy: Human Agency & Enlightened Self-Interest

johnt — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:29:33 -0000

I've snipped some superb insight by Chris Harrington and added some notes

The drive to compete comes mainly from scarcity, not only human nature
https://plus.google.com/108...

Re: Core Principles for the New Economy: Human Agency & Enlightened Self-Interest

johnt — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:21:14 -0000

Interested in Venessa's readers thoughts on altruism and the study of mammals, esp primates

Altruism is only locally disadvantageous
http://johntropea.tumblr.co...

"Darwin clearly understood the fundamental problem associated with the evolution of altruism: It is locally disadvantageous. Place an altruist and a selfish individual next to each other and the selfish individual wins. How can a behavior evolve in the total population when it is never at a local advantage?

Darwin also clearly understood the nature of the solution: Altruism is advantageous at a larger scale. Groups of altruists out-compete groups of non-altruists, even if altruism is selectively disadvantageous within each group. This is the theory of multilevel selection, in which different traits are favored at different levels. The term multilevel selection wasn’t coined until later, but the whole point of group selection theory was to solve the problem posed by a conflict between levels of selection."

But is this mutualism, or altruism...is it to do with survival and reproduction as the fundamental drive...

Status is who we are - our mammalian origins
http://johntropea.tumblr.co...

Where does altruism fit into this…mammals seek dominance because the serotonin feels good
http://johntropea.tumblr.co...

And your thoughts on the empathy-altruism hypothesis
http://johntropea.tumblr.co....

Re: Core Principles for the New Economy: Human Agency & Enlightened Self-Interest

johnt — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:37:54 -0000

I presume the background to some of Stowe's thoughts is this article
http://johntropea.tumblr.co...

Collaboration seems to be a big bucket to include lots of things..so it becomes semantics.

At work I deal in KM, networks, engagement ,etc...but I just use collaboration in my job title, as everyone then gets the gist
https://plus.google.com/108...

Did you see this short video clip on agency and sociology
http://johntropea.posterous...

Gee, I punched out that comment like a powerpoint slide...

Re: Social Business: 6 Must-Have Apps for the Enterprise App Store

johnt — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 22:52:27 -0000

But of course...great post Oscar. A few other apps - a task app, and a collaboration app (also could be a group app)...and perhaps packaging apps as solutions

We also need to be able to move content along a "value path" eg. someone in the collaboration app posts a great comment in a forum topic. Click on the footer of that comment to re-post it in the idea app. Once it gets traction in the idea app, re-post it in the task app to execute the idea

I've been investigating this space lately and Jive, IBM and Socialcast are all doing this sort of thing...problem for me is each has unique features...this is when you say, heck I'll make my own product LOL

Further to this is the idea of creating your own apps via an app builder without needing programming know-how, and of course apps that integrate with other business applications.

Check out my post on Podio and my post on integration
http://libraryclips.blogsom...
http://libraryclips.blogsom...