Collaboration Technologies Change Management

December 13, 2006 by karamonroe.

Thre is an outstanding article in the November 27, 2006 issue of eWeek (see p. 8 or http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2064441,00.asp).  The article by Eric Lundquist urges the reader to embrace collaboration technologies - particularly with their power to change not only our personal interactions, but more importantly our work interactions.  Lundquist says, “Add wikis to the world of blogs, podcasts, videocasts, and social networks, and the ability for the manager to control the company from the traditional top-down approach simply won’t work.  I’m not the only one thinking this way.”  And I would agree - he is certainly not the only one thinking this way.

Interactive technologies such as email and IM have changed the ways in which we communicate and now web 2.0 technologies like those Lundquist lists are changing the way we interact, plan, and even approach information sharing.  For example, I would never consider offering a training session anymore that didn’t also include a podcast version in both audio format and video format.  Not only that but products like MagneticTime allow me to now listen to my documents quickly and easily.  As an educator - I’ve always thought it was important for us to embrace multiple learning styles - these new collaboration technologies just make it so much easier to do so for anyone interested in publishing.

I wonder what the teachoutloud service provided by LearnOutLoud (www.learnoutloud.com) will do for educational provision - and the ability of individuals to license their products using a creative commons licensing - giving explicit rights of use to users without any question of the copyright you’re providing - are all powerful and important tools to consider as we continue to embrace interactive and collaboration technologies in the workplace, at home, and in education.

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