This free webinar on:  Cyborg Anthropology on August 5th from 10-11 am looks very interesting.  The registration link is below.  Or look at the O'Rielly web site for more information.

https://oreilly.connectsolutions.com/cyborg/event/registration.html

Here is the blurb for my talk at NeoCon in Chicago.  This talk is sponsored by Haworth, and
they are giving out a customized copy of my book "42 Rules for Successful Collaboration" to
all those attending.

Profitable Collaboration

Collaboration is hot! But most organizations have invested millions and are not happy with the results.  Some of them have learned that some collaboration can be worse than none. This presentation will give your organization a roadmap to help turn failure into success. A solution does not mean you have to throw everything out! A quick assessment exercise will help identify some of your issues, and help to start the creation of a custom roadmap for organizational success and increased profit. Anecdotes and insights from David’s past 20 years of work and research on collaboration will round out the presentation. All attendees will receive a copy of David's latest book 42 Rules for Successful Collaboration.

Dave Gardner and I are doing a new podcast this week on "Techniques for virtual Teams." Listen to podcast here..

We are looking at doing another podcast for next week on "If Collaboration is the symptom,
then what is the problem? It will look at a few case studies where they thought they had
collaboration covered, but still had some critical problems. 

I will be giving a talk on Social Networks in the Enterprise for NewWoW on June 3 at 8:00 am PDT.

I will be speaking at NeoCon in Chicago on June 14-15th (2 sessions) on "Profitable Collaboration." Both sessions will be at the Haworth showroom, and are sponsored by Haworth.

I have also done a white paper on Strategies for Successful Enterprise Collaboration. This
paper was sponsored by Akamai, and can be found by clicking the title or in the "publications" section
of this web site.

This week the collaborative mini-assessment link is LIVE in conjunction with my "Collaborative
Thinking" column in Elearing! Magazine which is called "Are you Collaborative...Really?"

So lots of new (and controversial) content, and ways you can participate.

Barbara Hemphill, the orgininal author of "Taming the Paper Tiger" and who has been helping me
tame the mess in my office is doing a webinar.  This one is about being sustainable and tamin the
same tiger.  Worth a listen. If you let them know you found out about it on the CS web site, I will add the extra incentive of a complete recording of the last 6 podcasts on collaboration.

Dave Gardner and I have been doing a series of weekly podcasts about collaboration.

The first podcast is about"The Collaborative Shift to the future." The main points include:

• What are people shifting from and to?
• What is the change in the way we approach collaboration?
• What are the biggest challenges in adopting this new mental framework?

http://collaborate.com/sites/default/files/MN2124_01282010111213246_1050277-podcast1.mp3

Our second podcast is called "The Technology Trap." The main points of this podcast are:

• What is the collaboration technology trap?
• What factors cause companies to fall into this trap?
• Who should be driving new collaboration tool deployments?
• What are the six critical processes in any company that have collaborative leverage?

http://collaborate.com/sites/default/files/Collaboration-TheTechnologyTrap-recording.mp3

The third podcast on "Collaboration: measuring the outcome." The key points are:

• Measuring the outcomes of collaborative interactions
• The "black hole" theory of collaboration
• Hitting project milestones as a result of collaboration
• Synchronous vs. asynchronous collaboration

http://collaborate.com/sites/default/files/Collaboration-Measuring the Outcome.mp3

I will be attending:

Slides from my Mind Trek Keynote: