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an alternative story about organising a party - Lilia Efimova

on strong and weak ties combined in a team - Lilia Efimova

Also on content-based connections - Lilia Efimova

For the past 6 months, one could barely switch on the television in the Netherlands without seeing the face of famed virus hunter Albert Osterhaus talking about the swine flu pandemic. Or so it has seemed. Osterhaus, who runs an internationally renowned virus lab at Erasmus Medical Center, has been Mr. Flu. But last week, his reputation took a nosedive after it was alleged that he has been stoking pandemic fears to promote his own business interests in vaccine development. As Science went to press, the Dutch House of Representatives had even slated an emergency debate about the matter. - Lilia Efimova

"There are 2 things you can say about all this. First, it’s not wrong, just different. There are deep intensive interactions with other human beings, and there are shallow, broad interactions with other human beings. We’re seeing a shift from the former to the latter--in terms of gross numbers at least." - Lilia Efimova

Knowledge Productivity: Designing and testing a method to diagnose knowledge productivity and plan for enhancement, - Lilia Efimova

"So when to intervene, when to stand back, if correction is needed how to make it? `Purity rituals of exclusion are common in human systems (astute readers will know the reference in the title), when should they be applied? What is the balance between evolution and compromise? Any ideas out there?" - Lilia Efimova

links to in-depth stuff on the approach - Lilia Efimova

"Presence, Performance, Purpose = 3P as guide for how to keep secret." - Lilia Efimova

scroll all the way to the end on the discussion of a smart way to bring backchallel back to the event - Lilia Efimova

"One is a record, the other is part of the conversation. One represents the voices of others, the other IS the voices." - Lilia Efimova

somehow it's nice to hear about things that do not work with Wikipedia (since I come across lots of papers on how wikis are great that use it as an example) - Lilia Efimova

Global Software Development (GSD) has gained significant popularity as an emerging paradigm. Companies also show interest in applying agile approaches in distributed development to combine the advantages of both approaches. However, in their most radical forms, agile and GSD can be placed in each end of a plan-based/agile spectrum because of how work is coordinated. We describe how three GSD projects applying agile methods coordinate their work. We found that trust is needed to reduce the need of standardization and direct supervision when coordinating work in a GSD project, and that electronic chatting supports mutual adjustment. Further, co-location and modularization mitigates communication problems, enables agility in at least part of a GSD project, and renders the implementation of Scrum of Scrums possible. - Lilia Efimova

System products need to be developed faster in a global development environment. More efficient project management becomes more important to meet strict time-to-market and quality constraints. The goal of this research is to study and find the best practices to distributed Scrum, which is an agile project management method. The paper describes the process of mining distributed Scrum organizational patterns. The experiences and improvement ideas of distributed Scrum have been collected from a global company operating in the automation industry. The results present issues that were found important when managing agile projects in a distributed environment. The results are further generalized in the form of an organizational pattern which makes it easier for other companies to reflect on and to apply the results to their own cases. - Lilia Efimova

distance! - Lilia Efimova

the smart strategy now appears to be to find and build upon the early successes stories; namely the internal but local efforts that are rising and have already hit upon the right mix of tools, participants, motivation, and content. - Lilia Efimova

ROWE, or Results-Only Work Environment, (also known as Results Oriented Work Environment), is a management strategy created by CultureRx and adopted by Best Buy.[1] In this model, employees are paid for results (output) rather than the number hours worked. The goal is to keep workers who deliver results while firing those who are not productive. - Lilia Efimova

Notes on Lada Adamic's keynote - Lilia Efimova

"Facilitating Online is a course intended for training educators as online facilitators of fully online and mixed mode courses. The Centre for Educational Technology (CET) produced a Course Leader’s Guide as an Open Educational Resource to assist educators and trainers who wish to implement a course on online facilitation within their institution or across several institutions. The guide contains the course model, week-by-week learning activities, general guidance to the course leader on how to implement and customise the course and specific guidelines on each learning activity. " - Lilia Efimova

net-centric emergency response - Lilia Efimova

There is obviously nothing 'in-tune with human nature' in micro-blogging, in fact it's rather counter-intuitive, especially for people who are not very deep into social web etc. People who *are* into social web, started to use it (they use everything, omnivorely, promiscuously) - in fact, they started to ab-use it, and found a point, and a pleasure while doing it. What most interesting... more... - Cea

Yes, Lilia, I've heard this last one a lot, too:) - Ashalynd

see links to the instruments - Lilia Efimova

CC example in the text - Lilia Efimova

"A 1999 study showed that employees working in white-walled offices experienced nausea and headaches more than employees in red or blue work spaces." - Lilia Efimova

Twitter Etiquette: Five Dos and Don'ts - Lilia Efimova

The microblogging service Twitter is in the process of being appropriated for conversational interaction and is starting to be used for collaboration, as well. In an attempt to determine how well Twitter supports user-to-user exchanges, what people are using Twitter for, and what usage or design modifications would make it (more) usable as a tool for collaboration, this study analyzes a corpus of naturally-occurring public Twitter messages (tweets), focusing on the functions and uses of the @ sign and the coherence of exchanges. The findings reveal a surprising degree of conversationality, facilitated especially by the use of @ as a marker of addressivity, and shed light on the limitations of Twitter's current design for collaborative use. - Lilia Efimova

Abstract. Many qualitative researchers have puzzled over the question of how to write more engaging, more communicative texts. "Why" we write, however, is not often part of our scholarly conversations. In this article, I examine the writing process and position writing as a learning tool which enables what researchers know about themselves and their topics. I engage with writing as a product, process, form of invention, and instrument of self-reflection. Ultimately, I suggest that writing should be included more intentionally in our research methods courses. Writing is not simply what we "do," but also how we become better writers and scholars. - Lilia Efimova

Abstract: This cogenerative ethnography explored the lived experiences of two graduate students balancing Ph.D. studies and motherhood through McClusky's (1963) Theory of Margin. Specifically, we asked ourselves: What impact does pregnancy have on personal and academic selves and how are multiple roles and responsibilities managed? Through an analysis of dialogues, artifacts, conceptual maps, and narratives, examples of internal and external load revealed the dynamic nature of the female experiences in graduate school. Excerpts from the data showed how roles, relationships, and experiences are characterized and how similar or different those examples were, given individual context. Implications of this research for students, faculty, and higher education policy are explored. - Lilia Efimova

Please note that titles for items in online communities (e.g. blogs, newsgroups, forums) are not italicized. - Lilia Efimova

It is important to monitor your online reputation and what others are saying, both good and bad. You should at least use Google Alerts, which is free. However, I frequently learn many things through Google Alerts about other people who share my name or worse people who only share my first or last name, or even worse, things like legislative bills. However, there are times I find very useful mentions that I would not have known about otherwise such as Lilia Efimova’s study of bloggers on Mathemagenic. - Lilia Efimova