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David Tebbutt reflects (mostly on cooperation, collaboration and communication).

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Guy Kewney as a social object
I can't let this week's post go by without mentioning Guy Kewney, who died last Thursday. When I made the jump from the computer industry into publishing, he was already a 'name'. We were fortunate enough to secure his services as the...
David Tebbutt | 12th April '10

Financial and environmental savings with GoToTraining
Just over a year ago, a major IT company cancelled a training visit on environmental grounds. We'd done the event before. I (one of the trainers) had flown to the US West coast to conduct a module with 75 delegates who'd flown in from all...
David Tebbutt | 6th April '10

Social networking: an authoritative guide
What does 'social networking' mean to you? Loads of users freeloading on the company bandwidth? Opening gaping holes in the corporate firewall? Having to support a raft of new software over which you have little control? Or boosting...
David Tebbutt | 29th March '10

Is authority the first word or the last?
David Weinberger was one of the co-authors of the Cluetrain Manifesto which looked at the impact of the internet on markets and organisations. He wrote his first blog post in 1999 but didn't hit his stride until 2001. That's probably...
David Tebbutt | 21st March '10

If 'semantic web' annoys you, read on...
Say semantic web to a lot of people and the shutters on their brains come down. They may have lived through the disappointments of the AI or expert systems eras. Or they may simply know how impossibly tedious it would be to retrofit their...
David Tebbutt | 15th March '10

Are multi-touch surfaces heading your way?
In the days of black screens and green type, the arrival of colour was somewhat puzzling. If computers had got us so far without colour, who'd want it? Everyone, it seems. Then came windows, icons, mice and pointers. Again, we were all...
David Tebbutt | 6th March '10

KM that works
As if IT directors don't have enough on their plates, they're being sucked in to all sorts of new areas. Every enterprise is, or soon will be, an online publisher. Many will transition from a hierarchical mentality to a more collaborative...
David Tebbutt | 1st March '10

Eco-efficiency: a global online gathering (Jam)
Well, IBM's Global Eco-Efficiency Jam has been going for 15 hours now. It aims to avoid science, politics and beliefs and focus on pragmatism and practical actions individuals and organisations can take now and in the near future to...
David Tebbutt | 28th January '10

Is the eco-wind blowing your way?
It wasn't so long ago that all 'green' activity went under the heading of 'idealism'. Nothing wrong with that, but the so-called developed world is not big on that sort of thing. It doesn't put money in shareholders' pockets, satisfy...
David Tebbutt | 4th December '09

Time to stop taking water for granted
Every day in recent months, the water level in our local lake has been dropping. The ducks have less and less water to swim in and find their food. As the water recedes it exposes smelly black mud (for want of a better word), it's probably...
David Tebbutt | 19th November '09