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• Interview with Sean O'Driscoll

  A while ago, I posted about a brief meeting I had with Sean O'Driscoll , the person in Microsoft responsible for the MVP Program ; at that time Sean agreed to do an interview with me where we would dig into some thoughts on what made for successful Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 25, 2007 9:01 PM by jonnychambers | 9 Comments Filed under: Video, featured post, web 2.0, interviews, community 2.0 Attachment(s): http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/5/1/b5115dce-bf2d-45ef-98fa-eeb956128253/Solshare_500k.wmv

• Managing Purposeful Communities - academic research from Boras and USC

  Back in June 2006, in support of the SSN Program , we kicked off a research collaboration with the Universities of Boras and Southern California . We had over 30 countries around the world that were engaging with us on the program, and there were many Read More... Posted Friday, April 13, 2007 1:48 PM by jonnychambers | 1 Comments Filed under: research, featured post Attachment(s): Managing_Purposeful_Communities.pdf

• Community Group Therapy - a useful resource from someone 'in the know'

  I was talking with Sean O'Driscoll the other day...Sean runs one of Microsoft's most important communities, the MVPs or to give the full title, the Most Valuable Professionals . MVPs generally do not work for Microsoft, rather they are recognised Read More... Posted Saturday, March 03, 2007 11:11 AM by jonnychambers | 1 Comments

• Trip to the OSS Impact Workshop

  I attended the OSS Impact Workshop today in Brussels, and one of the things that was discussed was pooled or shared software development. Several case studies were presented, and it was evident that effective collaborative development is not something Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 28, 2006 3:08 PM by jonnychambers | 0 Comments Filed under: Shared Development, Video, pool

• Effective collaborative action is the order of the day in Newham

  The London Borough of Newham is an organization with big plans, as I discovered when I spoke with Geoff Connell ; and with the help of some of their equally proactive Local Authority counterparts in the UK they are making big strides to realize them. Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 11, 2006 12:13 PM by jonnychambers | 1 Comments Filed under: case study, SSN, shared services

• Solutions Sharing Network Portals on the Internet

  If you read the Solutions Sharing Network Program overview, you will see that as part of engaging with Microsoft fully in the program, we support customers in the deployment of a custom built portal environment to support their Solutions Sharing needs. Read More... Posted Monday, October 09, 2006 11:38 PM by jonnychambers | 0 Comments Filed under: SSN

• Digital Preservation - new thinking requires new community

  I caught up with Adam Jansen , Digital Archivist, from the Washington State Digital Archives last week. Adam is heading up a drive to support a community of individuals that are interested in the issues of the long term storage of digital records - enter Read More... Posted Sunday, October 08, 2006 8:46 PM by jonnychambers | 0 Comments Filed under: case study, SSN, Digital Preservation

• Lets start with some background to Solutions Sharing and Microsoft

  The Microsoft Solutions Sharing Network program started a couple of years ago in response to our public sector customers telling us that they would like to get more from some of the great solutions they had developed...they wanted our help. This request Read More... Posted Thursday, September 21, 2006 2:40 PM by jonnychambers | 0 Comments