If your soccer team played like your work team..

..is an interesting question posed by Ken Thompson of Bioteams.com in this video:

NLab Social Networks Conference 2008 - Ken Thompson from IOCT on Vimeo.

He explains his thinking about bio-teams, plays some good games! and poses some thought-provoking questions.

What if your work team played like a football team? Would they be better or worse? Is working in your team as exciting? (for football team substitute any high functioning group of your choice.... Ocean's 11???).

Ken gives a live demonstration of how social networks can be a used as a collective brain using simple text messaging techniques. His central theme is about collective leadership - no one leader has all the answers all the time. He also suggests that short messaging creates dynamic, mobile teams whereas we are locked into "document culture".

I'd add "discuss", but only in the chat room, I guess!

5 common mistakes in using blogs

I have been pondering on the uses of blogs in this module: the following article has helped me in my musings...http://tinyurl.com/3m8wbd

I think the author make some good points about clarity and trust, busy-ness and perceived value.... what has emerged for me is that I like blogging and use this space to add richness to the learning materials we started with; but it doesn't lend itself to a place for discussion. Blackboard and the wiki do that.

If by setting up this blog I have found a repository for my own reflections and maybe taught one or two people how to use them for their own purposes, than I am happy enough with that.

I note that comments are becoming fewer on here... so I will do a belt and braces and post on Bb too......

Drat this new fangled technology!!!

Team communications technology

A health-related team comms case study: may be useful as a starting point for this week's chat theme!!

http://tinyurl.com/4qp7m5

Ten Commandments for bloggers

One thing we/I didn't do before setting up this blog was to set out some "rules of engagement". Here are some that have been suggested elsewhere.

http://tinyurl.com/3u9cob

This doesn't, however, refer specifically to issues of taste and decency.

I had cause recently to delete a posting from this site because I felt it was bit "near the knuckle" (although pretty funny I admit). I was operating from my own sense of what is and isn't OK, but I didn't discuss this with the group. Maybe I should have?

What do you thtink should be included in a set of "netiquette" guidelines for the blog, wiki and discussion boards?