Sneak Peak of “The Rise of Collaborative Networks” (video is still in draft)

Posted on 03. Nov, 2009 by Jeff Dance in Fresh Productions, Fresh Technology

In the last 40 years, the world has changed at an exponential rate. With exponential computing power, the advent of the Internet and millions of connected devices, information moves faster and cheaper to more people. The knowledge economy is growing and a new collaboration age has emerged, led by a new generation of web-based technology and culture. How does your company keep up with all of this? Get a collaborative network – a social network with collaborative tools to get work done.

But why? In our personal lives, we socialize, contribute and collaborate online, yet at work, we seem to both share and talk less. As a result, people and information are harder to find. This video is a story about collaborative networks –how they came about, what they are, the problems they solve, and the opportunity to get on board and keep up in this new, fast-paced collaboration age.

The video below is still a draft and we are providing a sneak peak to seek out your feedback and ideas. We are still in the middle of the refining process, so please share with us your thoughts in the comments section below the blog post. (e.g. too fast, too slow, confusing parts, parts you like, etc) Thanks! Let’s collaborate.

Tags: Collaboration, Collaborative Networks, Enterprise 2.0, Web 2.0

5 Responses to “Sneak Peak of “The Rise of Collaborative Networks” (video is still in draft)”

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04. Nov, 2009

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Chad

05. Nov, 2009

Love the vid! Slow it down a titch at spots and you’re golden…lots of great stats implemented throughout with a good, driving audio track and beats!
Bob Seidensticker

13. Nov, 2009

I’m afraid your first sentence stopped me: “In the last 40 years, the world has changed at an exponential rate.” I can appreciate that it can certainly seem that way (this is Ray Kurzweil’s Law of Accelerating Returns), but I’m afraid that technology doesn’t work that way.

Take a different technology and a different 40-year period, and you can find social change equal to what we’ve experienced with computers. Sure, computers have shaken up things in the last 40 years. But so did railroads from, say, 1830-1870. Or the telegraph (1850-1890). Or cars (1910-1950). Or airplanes (1930-1970). Or skyscrapers, bridges, and dams (1890-1930). It took a lot less than 40 years for mechanized printing presses to give society the penny newspaper. Or look at the telephone, plastic, or lots of other technologies.

This is a bit of a hot button topic for me because I wrote a book about it: “Future Hype: They Myths of Technology Change” (2006).

I realize that this is tangential to your point, but I just wanted to toss out that different viewpoint, FYI.
Joshua Dance

14. Nov, 2009

Love the video. Great presentation. One part at near 1:02 where the one word covers the other one was a little cluttered.
Brent Dance

16. Dec, 2009

@Bob Seidensticker. Thanks for your thoughts and for taking the time to opine on the power of technology. We appreciate your deep level of expertise and for honing in on specifics. We also hope that you endured through the rest of the presentation and understand comprehensively our viewpoint.

I think we can unanimously agree that the world is changing. It’s always changing. That’s not news. What is news is the pace at which internet technology is changing and how quickly society is adopting and using it. Just as electricity was a revolutionary innovation and evolved in its purpose and usage over time, so is the internet, and it behooves us to understand the internet and its implications on business.

Our view is that the world is indeed moving at a faster pace than ever before – largely in part to the rapid advancement of core technologies as expressed through Moore’s Law and Kryder’s Law, decreasing bandwidth costs and the pervasive adoption of the internet and wireless technologies. And in order to help keep up with these changes, we are suggesting that companies adopt (http://www.20adoptioncouncil.com/Blog/) collaborative networks – social technologies with robust collaborative tools to get work done. The power of collaborative networks is at the crux of our video.

There’s a bevy of writing on the topic of the impact of the internet and collaborative technologies – most of which is probably familiar to you:

* Here’s Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_Comes_Everybody
* The Groundswell by Forrester: http://blogs.forrester.com/groundswell/
* Enterprise 2.0 by Andrew McAfee: http://www.amazon.com/Enterprise-2-0-Collaborative-Organizations-Challenges/dp/1422125874
* Big Switch by Nicholas Carr: http://www.nicholasgcarr.com/bigswitch/

And related research, which talks even more about how unprecedented these changes are:

* The Big Shift: http://edgeperspectives.typepad.com/edge_perspectives/2009/08/defining-the-big-shift.html
* The Shift Index: http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_US/us/About/Catalyst-for-Innovation/Center-for-the-Edge/article/f142fcb75ef22210VgnVCM200000bb42f00aRCRD.htm
* Trends underlying Enterprise 2.0 by Andrew McAfee: http://andrewmcafee.org/2006/03/the_three_trends_underlying_enterprise_20/

Due largely in part to the aforementioned qualitative and quantitative research, we are convinced that underneath the technology-hype hyperbole we do indeed see a societal, economic and technological movement unlike before.

Because we indeed are tech-friendly we appreciate the different perspective your “Future Hype”-related opinions proffer.

P.S. We appreciate you mentioning your book. After taking a look we hope to buy a copy soon to ensure we keep a fully-informed perspective.

http://www.amazon.com/Future-Hype-Myths-Technology-Change/dp/B002HJ3EEQ/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top