How Lotus Notes Changed the Collaboration Landscape

http://readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2011/09/sheldon-laube.php

I was part of the early days of Lotus Notes (1989-1996) while at Price Waterhouse.  I worked with Sheldon and his team and then later worked for him at a start-up.  There is a great podcast interview with Sheldon Laube linked to from this article, it is very relevant to the conversation today around enterprise collaboration and social interaction.

Enterprise Collaboration/social interaction is almost a back to the future moment.  We had it with Lotus Notes and now people are starting to recognize again the power of collaboration.

Lotus Notes revisited

Peter O'Kelly on the history of Lotus Notes.  Notes being the first commercially succesful and mass adopted collaboration platform, it still holds a fond place in many collaboration and KM experts hearts.  I even co-authored a book on Lotus Notes back in 1997.

http://pbokelly.blogspot.com/2010/06/leaving-notes-personal-perspectives.html

Nature of Work Will Change

http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1416513

Gartner has identified 10 changes that we will see in how people work over the next 10 years.

Ask, Learn, Share

Like Shell's concept of Ask, Learn, Share. Ask before doing, learn while doing it, share when it is complete. #kmw10

Any readers at KM World?

If any of you KMNews readers are at KM World in Washington D.C. Let me know so we can get together. Reply to this message or send me an email.

The virtual smoke break

Will enterprise social tools become the new smoke break?  Let's face it the smoke break is becoming a thing of the past.  I don't smoke, never have, but the smoke break has been one of the best KM tools around.  What do people do when they smoke?  They talk.  Conversations are ultimate form of knowledge transfer.  People talk about specific subjects, but they also tell stories, and telling stories is a wonderful form of sharing knowledge.

I will be attending KM World next week (11/15 to 11/18) in Washington D.C. I hope to see some of you there! #kmworld