Melanie Turek, writing in Collaboration Loop, pens an excellent article Collaboration and Compliance which takes a fast forward look at the implications of compliance legislation such as Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA in various industries such as financial services, health care and the public sector.

Melanie comments on the latest Nemertes research and suggests that it is likely that these enterprises will be required to archive and retrieve not just their emails but also their instant messages, voice over IP sessions, chat sessions, video, corporate team rooms, blogs and wikis!

The two currently popular corporate get out clauses - “our staff don’t use IM” and “we don’t have a copy of it any more” may not stand up in court in the future.

The article discusses a number of technologies from Webex, C2C Systems, FaceTime and IM Logic which can support archiving and retrieval of unstructured data.

Melanie also points out that these technologies can also be very useful in automatically recording the results of virtual team sessions.

Having a great electronic team brainstorm session where the outputs get lost or get circulated too late to be useful could well become a thing of the past.

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Social Propagation is the secret to organizational and team learning

August 21, 2005 | article by Ken Thompson in Book Reviews (37), Online Collaboration Techniques (47)

and the most evolved non-human species on the planet is not who you think it is! Arie de Geus is credited by many as the inventor of the concept of "the learning organisation". In his book "The Living Company" Arie describes an interview with Professor Alan Wilson, distinguished zoologist and botanist.

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