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Where in the world is…

Paul Connolly was giving me grief the other day because I hadn’t updated my blog since April 1. Well, technically I have, although it was one of those “blog this” posts from Digg, so he was essentially correct. I explained, as I had to everyone else in my circle of contacts, that I have been extremely busy getting ready for the corporate knowledge management conference next week in South Carolina. Not attending, but producing, pulling together the material and actually creating a 2-1/2 day meeting with key KM leaders representing over forty knowledge communities.

So for those of you who are patiently waiting for me to return to normal life, such that it is, you’ll have to wait one more week. This time next Thursday I’ll be on a plane headed back to California, and ready for a well-deserved coma.

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The Way I See It #90

If you’re looking for sage advice on the value of collaboration, social media and communities of practice, you need look no further than that steaming cup of strong coffee in your hand. Today’s pearl came from a Starbucks cup.

If we really want to understand innovation and collaboration, we have to explore shared space. Consider Watson & Crick: how many experiments did they do to confirm DNA’s double helix?

Zero.

Not one.

They built models based on other peoples data. These models were their shared space.Their collaboration in that shared space powered their Nobel Prize- winning breakthrough. If you don’t have a share space, you’re not collaborating.

-Michael Schrage
MIT design researcher and author of Serious Play

Thanks to Sarah and John for passing this on.