News & Media
Natures Self-Organization: Expert Radio Discussion
EMERGENCE. Biological experts discuss how Fireflies synchronize their flashing in an incredible way plus amazing insight into the discovery of Ant Pheromones from Dr. Edward O. Wilson himself.
National Geographic features Swarm Intelligence
A single ant or bee isn't smart, but their colonies are. The study of swarm intelligence is providing insights that can help humans manage complex systems, from truck routing to military robots.
Run better meetings with Roberts Rules 1896
Robert's Rules of Order, originally written in 1896, proposes a set of rules for conducting Fair and Orderly Meetings & Conventions. Many of Robert's Rules still apply to meetings today - even virtual meetings!
Corporates dont trust blogs
Pat Garland, at Egovni reports on a survey carried out by McKinsey and Company which suggests that business execs love user-driven collaboration but are much less enthusiastic about blogs.
Virtual collaboration at Boeing
Aviation giant Boeing is putting large scale multi-party collaboration right at the heart of the new 787 Dreamliner development with 60 business partners working across 72 sites around the world.
Bees and Pattern Recognition
Pattern recognition skills in bees are so advanced they can recognise human faces better than we can
Ravens demonstrate logic and social intelligence
According to Robin McKie writing for The Observer in “Clever raven proves that it's no birdbrain“ scientists have discovered an unexpected candidate for the title of the world's second smartest creature: the raven
Friendship groups versus social networks
An essay by Stuart Jeffries in The Guardian shows why it is important to have good friendship rings as well as strong social/business networks and how to tell the difference.
Google Apps Premier: web-based office collaboration
Yesterday Google announced a new premier edition of its Google Apps online collaboration suite, combining GMail, Google Talk, Calendar. Page Creator, Startpage, Google Docs and Spreadsheets under a hosted subscription service. Robin Good offers an excellent review of the components, pricing and the support package.
The team brain concept
James Thornton in “You Have Three Brains” reports on research that we each have, not one but, three brains nested within our skulls – a lizard brain, a dog brain, and a human brain. This got me thinking – if teams are really living systems then they might have 3 brains too?
