NLab: creativity and collaboration

Ken Thompson: Bioteams and Twitter: interactive poll results

*** STOP PRESS *** Stunning Interactive Poll results from NLAB Social Networks Conference. Q1 Would your work team be better or worse if it organised itself more like your favourite sports team? - Only 7% say it would make things worse! Q2 Does Twitter (and other such tools) distract from work and is it worth it? -  Yes it does but Yes it is!

Ken's interactive poll was one of your conference favourites. Read the results

Jim Benson presentation: Social Networking Beyond The Dogma: Let's Make Some Money

Jim Benson tried an experimental presentation method consisting of a single pdf which he navigated through his talk. It was an intriguing and very coherent brainstorm. Revisit it here. (As he says, You'll likely need to zoom in to about 200 percent to read it.) Again, video of the talk will be available soon.

Download jim_benson_nlab_presentation_i_can_give_you_anything_but_time_and_speaker_notes_18_june_2008.pdf

Andrea Saveri presentation: Amplified Individuals & Organisational Superheroes

Here's Andrea Saveri's presentation for download. It's a pretty huge file, but well worth the wait. Just to remind you, she outlined the qualities of Organisational Superheroes including:

• mobbability
• influency
• ping quotient
• protovation
• open authorship
• multi-capitalism
• longbroading
• signal/noise management
• cooperation radar

Download amplified_individuals_nlab.ppt  (notes included)

A video of the talk is being processed and will be available soon.