How companies can use technology internally to collaborate and share more effectively. It's not about technology, it's about culture to collaborate.

1. Manish Mohan
18 November 2010

2. Collaboration Technologies:
What’s In Use in Your Organization
 Email
 Project based collaboration:
 Microsoft SharePoint
 Wiki-based Project Workspace
 Synchronous collaboration
 Video Conferencing (limited access)
 OCS, WebEx (limited access)
 Chat: Spark, SameTime, OCS
 Salesforce, …
 Employee Portals

3. Collaboration Technologies
You Can Also Try
 Micro-messaging using Yammer
(Twitter+Facebook for the
Corporate), or SocialCast,
SocialText, …
 Cloud documents: Google Docs,
Windows Live SkyDrive, Zoho
 Chat – Gtalk, Yahoo, MSN
 Video conferencing using Skype,
Gtalk, Yahoo, MSN
 Screen Sharing using Skype,
WebEx, OCS, (common platform
across the organization)

4. But It Is Not About Technology…
… It is about the “Culture”.
The culture to:
Broadcast Yourself
Openly Seek Help
Respond to Others
Share Information Freely
Build Personal Networks
Not be Afraid to make Mistakes
Constantly be Open to Learning

5. Why Collaborate?
Changing Contexts
I am as knowledgeable as the
knowledge I have
I am a node of reference
because I know things
I am an expert because I
know things
The less I share, the more I
know
I can only learn from gurus.
I am as knowledgeable as
collective knowledge of my
network
I am a node of reference
because I know who knows
I am an expert because I share
what I know
The more I share, the more I
know
I can learn from anyone,
irrespective of their position in
the organization.

7. Images sources:
 Broadcast: http://www.polkadotsalmon.co.uk/broadcastProgrammes.htm
 Seek Help: http://www.sd35.bc.ca/district/library/default.aspx
 Collaborate: http://mtlandrew21.wordpress.com/2009/03/28/amateur-professionals/
 Build Personal Networks: Greg Kolb, New maps of influence – 10 visualisations of the social graph
 Not be afraid to make mistakes: http://glamourkills.tumblr.com/post/1168258362/chase-your-dreams
 Learning Revolution: Wesley Fryer: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/
 Are you ready to collaborate: Lumaxart: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lumaxart/2137735924/in/set-
72157603545124242/