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on 2006-08-29 by lampertina

I'm using Dave's page to demonstrate diigo's potential in collaborative up-marking...

on 2006-08-29 by davepollard

I can see the text from my article you've annotated, but not your annotations.

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When during the meeting did we agree to do that?

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on 2006-08-29 by lampertina

- which kind of suggests that collaborative tools have the intention of bringing everyone to the same page (i.e., agreement over what was done). This sounds a bit like ...school, and what the teacher does ("now, class: everyone open their texts to page XYZ..."). Hmmm...?

The digital divide seems to grow ever wider, not narrower, and if a tool as simple, free and intuitive as Skype can't replace the telephone even for tech-savvy users, what hope is there for more complicated, sophisticated tools?

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on 2006-08-29 by lampertina

- I do think it has s.th. to do with the education model, with the teacher who has to get this factory-class of x-number of kids to all be "on the same page." This has retarded us.

Why are conversation and collaboration tools so underused? Is my list of 7 reasons missing anything? Are any of the reasons predominant?

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on 2006-08-29 by lampertina

I liked the comment on the writely document that said: "Learning how to use such tools never seems urgent, and there are always workarounds (like sending an email) that get the immediate task done." For me this gets at the "open your texts to page XYZ" problem: you want to cut to the chase quickly, you've spent years in school being bored out of your mind waiting for everyone to open their text to page XYZ, and you're not gonna take it anymore. So when you encounter a tool that seems like your worst boring teacher nightmare, you drop it...

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Many of these tools are unintuitive and hence not easy to learn to use.

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tools don't solve (and can exacerbate) this underlying problem of ineffective interpersonal skills.

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we're too busy

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One of the purposes of the new flood of social networking tools is to try to organize, facilitate and improve the effectiveness of conversations and collaborative activities. The power and promise of these tools was and is considerable, and a year ago Steve Barth even predicted the demise of group e-mails (in favour of next-gen wikis and other more dynamic tools). But most of these tools remain underused, or hardly used at all. The following table is my rough take on current usage of these tools:

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