Tuesday, November 26, 2002

Books and blogs. A while back I mentioned Erik Benson's All Consuming site. It continues to intrigue me, and I've now signed up for the weekly RSS feed. Inspired by Weblog BookWatch, Erik's service makes books, as well as people, an organizing principle of  blogspace. So here's a little experiment. I'm going to cite some books I've read recently, and have been thinking about, in order to see what kind of discussion is reflected back through All Consuming. ... [Jon's Radio] 7:16:46 PM    comment []

Groove Webservices WSDL available. Groove Webservices WSDL available. Great news : The WSDL and XSD files for the eagerly awaited Groove Webservices are available through Groove's Devzone Groove Web Services provide programmatic access to Groove tools and objects through SOAP interfaces, available for Groove Workspace's most popular components, including Files, Discussion, Calendar, Contacts, Members, and Awareness. Further, Groove Web Services infrastructure supports 3rd party developers' ability to expose their custom Groove tools as web services.  Congratulations to John Burkhardt and Matt Pope and the rest of the GWS team for this milestone. You're right John, it just keeps getting better :-)  [Jeroen Bekkers' Groove Weblog] Soon time for me to play with this stuff. 7:16:09 PM    comment []

Groove 2.5 and Sharepoint 2.0 Groove 2.5 and Sharepoint 2.0. Commweb : Getting out of isolated-workspace ruts Dana Gardner, an analyst with Aberdeen Group, says there's no other product on the market that can combine a powerful centralized collaboration tool such as Sharepoint with the decentralized, offline capabilities of Groove. "There's nothing this comprehensive for the user and easy for an IT department," Gardner says. "You get the best of an intranet combined with the best of an extranet." [Jeroen Bekkers' Groove Weblog] MS is getting in the Portal space through collaboration: with Groove they have a killer combination ! 7:15:36 PM    comment []

Hoarding is for the weak Hoarding is for the weak. Xerox has apparently proven what all knowledge workers intrinsically knew anyway; that knowledge hoarding is detrimental. Via Column Two A recent Xerox research report has found that high-performing employees don't tend to hoard information. According to the news summary: The idea that knowledge is power has been knocked on the head by researchers who claim that high-performing employees are more likely to be ones who proactively share information with their colleagues. My own experience agrees 100%. I am personally more powerful in what I do when I collaborate and openly share with others. They provide essential critique, support and grounding for my thoughts. [thought?horizon] I think there are exceptions to this Hoarding is for the weak rule. When an organization is in decline you might see good people who for some reason can't or won't leave for greener pastures trying to save their butt by hoarding knowledge, in an attempt to make themselves irreplaceable. [Seb's Open Research] [Jon Schull's Weblog] Best guys share has been my experience as well. I've been in organizations in decline but usually good people usually leave or continue to share knowledge. But my experience not that vast.  6:47:14 PM    comment []