collaboration
semantic web and intelligence
Do not confuse much of current semantic web and human intelligence
‘Friends’ in facebook
Been making more use of facebook in the last few weeks. Hard not to – when 250m people are using it. Was discussing it with a few different friends. One said he uses it to keep track of/ stay in touch with people overseas, ie does not see a lot of benefit in using it [...]
Making online collaboration work
In a conversation with the managing director (I will call him ‘Tom’) at a client a few weeks ago I felt I was in a time warp. I remember those conversations around: don’t want to give them PC’s because they’ll spend all day on their pc’s, don’t want them to have internet access because they’ll [...]
The case for collaboration – Irish universities
The recently announced collaborative efforts between Trinity College and University College Dublin were announced in the context of creating new, sustainable jobs. Clearly caught the attention of the other universities – given their more recent announcement of collaboration. These collaborative efforts seem to include attempts to find cost savings/ efficiencies through sharing of backoffice resources. [...]
Moving on from traditional thinking
I guess it’s challenging for all of us who have worked for the last 25 years. In my final year in Trinity College Dublin I was writing Assembler for the Motorola 68000 chip. The Mac was about to burst on the scene. Since then I have worked in a Professional Service Firm, my own IT [...]
Patient doctor collaboration
Interesting post on project healthdesign: The Doctor’s Role in a Health 2.0 World. Describing the patient as the ceo for his own body ie he takes responsibility, while the doctro is described as the consultant – advising the patient, seems like a good model, which reinforces the idea that the patient needs to manage his [...]