Consider for a moment where you turn when you’re looking for a document, a reference or information about who’s working on what and with which clients. Commonly people will ask their colleagues or send out an email to their team or people in their wider network. People will use their networks when ever and [...]
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With the release of our publication Social Networking for the Legal Profession, I will be introducing in a series of blogs some of the topics and themes outlined in more detail in the report. I will start the series with posts outlining the context in which online social networking and social computing is asking us [...]
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In the same way that the Web has changed the communication habits of millions of people, social computing is evolving to help us work with and in complex adaptive systems. The insights from Snowden and Jackson about ‘foresight’ and complexity, and their relationship with social computing, are fascinating not just for futures planning, but also [...]
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Yesterday, I went along to the InformatieProfessional Conference here in Amsterdam. As with all things associated with the web these days, the theme of the conference was Integrity 2.0. Key issues revolved around data privacy, information reliability and management of information overload. Lee gave a great presentation on the use of “Social network as information [...]
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In today’s complex and turbulent environment, organisations need ‘foresight’ to be able to respond promptly to various change drivers including technology, sustainability, globalisation and the economy. Essentially ‘foresight’ is a participative approach to creating shared long-term visions to inform short term decision-making processes (see http://www.foresight-network.eu/). During a recent webinar, [...]
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