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Wiki inventor Ward Cunningham highlights an important shortcoming of typical structured knowledge management and collaboration platforms (e.g. intranets):

For questions like ‘What’s going on in the project?’ we could design a database. But whatever fields we put in the database would turn out to be what’s not important about what’s going on in the project. What’s important about the project is the stuff you don’t anticipate.

The feeling of connectedness (and thus, the usefulness) of Social Networks and Ambient Awareness environnements is very hard to explain without actually experiencing it. David Allen did not find a way to actually explain this feeling, but he gives some inspirational clues:

There is inherently some sort of magic between the lines in much of it that seems to have struck a chord in so many of us. I attribute this to the transparency, connectedness, and immediacy that social media offer, which are key attributes of quality relationships—something humans crave at a basic level.

Time Management in the Age of Social Media

Hi all,
I just wanted to share with you one of my tricks for better organizing my bookmarks in delicious.
Today’s trick consist of using hashtags (e.g. #research) instead of regular tags when annotating/bookmarking web resources on delicious. Like twitter’s hashtags, they are not officially specifically handled/supported by delicious (yet?), but they are useful for me to make a difference between general/public tags and personal tags. Let me explain with a few examples:

• I use the “research” tag for resources that deal with research in general. I use “#research” for resources that I keep for MY research
• I use a “#todo” tag for stuff I need to read later. This shows that some tags can be irrelevant to other users but very practical for personal matters. Hashtags is a way to separate these two kind of tags.
• Finally, I use a “#profiles” tag to list my profiles on the internet. A regular “profiles” tag would just not make sense to the community of delicious users.

Last week, my PhD supervisor and 2 fellow PhD students (Julien Subercaze and Johann Stan, also under his supervision), participated to two seminars. The first seminar was in Universität Karlsruhe (Germany), and the second seminar was in Universiteit Twente (Enschede, the Netherlands).

In the frame of these seminars, I presented some slides on my current PhD work: Awareness Without Overload.

This presentation introduces existing approaches for improved enterprise communication and collaboration (including social web platforms and research works on Computer-Supported Collaborative Environments), which motivates a convergent framework of real-time contextual notifications based on employees’ work context. The framework is presented and current research issues (work in progress) are introduced.

As usual , I’m happy to welcome your comments