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Collaboration & Innovation 2008

September 14-17, 2008 at Purdue University

If teaming, leadership, and innovation are part of your strategy for competing in the market, this conference will provide a valuable learning opportunity. Three tracks create a rich array of learning opportunities: Teams & Collaboration, Leadership & Ethics, Creativity & Innovation.

Sessions includes keynote addresses, panels, team presentations, and workshops, including those by featured authors, such as: Dennis Reina, author of Trust & Betrayal in the Workplace: Building Effective Relationships in Your Organization and Glenn Parker, author of Team Players and Teamwork, --- and yes, I will be leading a workshop titled “From Dialogue To Synergy: Building Collaborative Relationships Online.”

Details are available at http://www.cci.purdue.edu

Organizational Perspectives- New site now online!

Capella asked me to work as the faculty content lead on a new web project called Organizational Perspectives www.organizationalperspectives.org. This is a multi-disciplinary site that explores the intersection between HR leadership and management (School of Biz an Technology), Training and Development (School of Education) and Organizational Psychology (School of Psychology.) It will feature faculty work from all three schools as well as other resources and stories.

 

It just went live --can you help make it look lively? Come vist, log in and make a comment! Share ways you communicate and collaborate online, or ways you hire, motivate, train and develop people in your organization so they do a better job when they work together online.

The first feature is about—you guessed it—the Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy! I highlighted two contributors, one who teaches at Capella and one who is her doctoral student—April Wall and Theresa Rich.

 

Please share the link to the site with anyone who might be interested. 

  

Library or Organization in 2nd Life: A Practical Guide

I'll be exploring Second Life tomorrow with my friends Sonja Morgwain and Teofila Matova. Join me-- aka Opal Zabaleta!

Tuesday, July 1st at 8:00 a.m. SLT at the Open Auditorium on Cybrary City 1 in Second Life for the third "So You Want Your Library or Organization in Second Life: A Practical Guide." This workshop includes a short presentation, tour of a library, and lots of time for questions and answers. Also offered is a tour of available parcels on Talis Island. Presentation is in a combination of voice and text. For more information, or if you would like to help answer questions or be involved, please IM either Teo or Sonja or use email address below. Location: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cybrary%20City/124/157/24 Best, Sonja Plummer-Morgan, MLIS (Sonja Morgwain in world) & Allison Brueckner (Teofila Matova in world)" sonjamorgwain@yahoo.com teofila.matova@gmail.com -- Sonja Plummer-Morgan, Library Director Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library 39 Second Street Presque Isle, Maine 04769 www.presqueisle.lib.me.us

Call for Papers: Distributed Leadership & Online Communities

A Special issue of Human Technology: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Humans in ICT Environments will focus on Distributed Leadership & Online Communities. It will be edited by Niki Lambropoulos and Dr. Leslie Gadman of London South Bank University, London, UK.

Distributed Leadership and Online Communities Leadership refers to top down, bottom up, and distributed management.The key objective is to look into the importance of online communities in participatory decision making in companies and organizational and governmental institutions. The editors hope that contributions to this issue will go beyond the current state of the art by looking at future prospects and emerging applications.

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit a manuscript or a 2-page manuscript proposal no later than July 31, 2008. All will be notified by August 31, 2008 about the status of their proposals. Full rough drafts are expected to be submitted by November 30, 2008 for blind peer review.

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) to:

Niki Lambropoulos
Researcher, Online Community Architect & Business Analyst PhD student at the Centre for Interactive Systems Engineering London South Bank University London, UK e-mail: niki@lambropoulos.org

For more information see:
The Human Technology Journal site and
the editors' facebook page.

Online Collaborative Integration Webinar

 

The webinar, Online Collaborative Integration: Working Across Disciplines, was archived. Here is the link to the Elluminate recording: https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/event/description?instance_id=11024. Also, Diane Cline created a visual record of the session, see: http://www.vision2lead.com/paradigm.jpg. (To see more of her interesting work, visit her portfolio at http://www.othconsulting.com/portfolio.htm).

Open Educational Resources Commons

VISIT and CONTRIBUTE!

Check out the Open Educational Resources Commons, a global teaching and learning network of free-to-use resources – from K-12 lesson plans to college courseware – for you to use, tag, rate, and review.

http://www.oercommons.org/

Videoconferencing in remote First Nations

Here is an interesting example of videoconference as a research and networking tool!

The three aboiginal regional management organizations in Northern Manitoba, Northern Ontario (K-Net) and Northern Quebec have recently formed a consortium (Northern Indigenous Communities Satellite Network-NICSN) to extend satellite based broadband and thus videoconferencing capability into a number of other remote communities in the region with long term (11 year) support from the Canadian government. See:http://meeting.knet.ca/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?id=3467

Three new videos highlighting the importance of videoconferencing in First Nations are now available online for your viewing pleasure (click on the following videos to watch them)

http://media.knet.ca/videocom_final Videoconferencing in Community Development
http://media.knet.ca/women_in_leadership_final Videocom - Women in Leadership Workshop
http://media.knet.ca/language_vc_final Videocom - Native Language Maintenance and Development

The March Videocom "update" is entitled - Encouraging urban organizations to

videoconference with remote and rural First Nations. This one page PDF

document is available for download at http://meeting.knet.ca/moodle/file.php/50/2008-March-Videoconferencing.pdf

Collaborative Integration Webinar

Online Collaborative Integration:

Working Across Disciplines

May 21 at 1 pm EST
(-5 hours GMT, see www.timeanddate.com for your time zone)

Janet Salmons, PhD and Lynn Wilson, PhD

FREE but registration is required at http://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/event/description?instance_id=11024

Join me and Lynn Wilson, my co- editor of the forthcoming Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy, for a lively conversation!

We will present ourCollaborative Integration Paradigm and discuss examples of online collaboration in educational or workplace contexts. The Collaborative Integration Paradigm offers a conceptual framework for exploring fundamental questions about the collaborative process:

·         Why do people collaborate online?

·         Who are the collaborative partners (individuals or organizations)?

·         How do they communicate and organize collaborative work processes?

·         To what degree does their individual work mesh to create collective outcomes?

When we understand the nature of the project, the players and the goals, we can be more successful in planning complex collaborative work that bridges geographic, cultural and disciplinary boundaries. Bring your ideas, questions and dilemmas and participate in this interactive webinar.

See you online!

Janet

Blogs, Wikis & Web 2.0

Want to start a wiki, form or a blog? This matrix allows you to compare features for a variety of services: http://www.weblogmatrix.org/ (For blogs, I vote for TypePad!)

Looking for Web2.0 activities for e-learning? This site matches products to learning activities: http://droopy.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webel/

Wondering about what happens when you reveal aspects of your self online? See the Future of Reputation...then think before you post! http://docs.law.gwu.edu/facweb/dsolove/Future-of-Reputation/text.htm

The WORD is out on the Handbook of Electronic Collaboration!

Check out the BOOKSNEWSLETTER from IGI Global! 

The Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy will be published in November, but the advance word is coming out now! Scroll down for to see the plug for our book and for the May 21 webinar on the Collaborative Integration Paradigm!