Social Media and Cross-border Collaboration

Social media, Web 2.0, blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Buzz, Google Docs, FTP, Jaiku, Qaiku, Ning, microblogs, Wiki, LinkedIn, etc. can be used to enhance and improve cross-border collaboration.

I’ll be speaking about this at Tallinn BlogFest 2010 May 25 and now writing a manuscript for success. What did we learn from the Innovationtrain? Where are the limits of self organization? How good is BarCamp?

What are the obstacles we need to overcome when we have long distances, cultural differences and the participants can’t use their mother language? 

Kommentti | Communication acrobatics

Kommentti | Communication acrobatics: "Communication acrobatics blog discusses youth and their digital lifestyle. The blog is based on survey data collected from Japan, South Korea and Finland in 2005-2007. A group of researchers from these countries are writing articles on youngsters and their digital lifestyle from different viewpoints. This blog introduces some of the material as well as drafts and background material of the articles. Full length articles will be published in a book format in English and in Finnish in 2009-2010.

Helge: Need to take a closer look...

Communication acrobatics blog is situated in Kommentti.fi. Kommentti.fi (Comment in Finnish) is an online channel for youth research. It comments scientific, political and media related topics from different viewpoints in various blogs. Kommentti speaks up new research findings and youth politics as well as transforms research data into hands-on and down to earth discussion. Comments are given in many ways, in forms of columns, statistics, blogs and free discussion."

Helge: 2005 sounds like very old. 2007 is like yesterday. What about now?

A Generation of Instant Communication at Personal PR

A Generation of Instant Communication at Personal PR: A Generation of Instant Communication | By Tiffany Monhollon | December 13, 2007.

Tiffany writes, "A few months ago, I read this interesting article about college students trying to have a day with no electronic media. They went, for one 24-hour period, without television, computers, iPods, radio, video games, CD players, records, cell phones or land lines."

Helge: I don't mind about TV and CD-players, but Internet and cell phones are vital life-lines.

One described the experience as a “grueling pain,” and another said: “I was in shock . . . I honestly did not think I could accomplish this task. The 24 hours I spent in what seemed like complete isolation became known as one of the toughest days I have had to endure.”

Helge: A day or two isn't a problem, but a week is a challenge.

Tiffany continues, "I didn’t realize how much this was the case in my life until recently, my power went off in the midst of an ice storm, and my life as I knew it virtually stopped. Forced to unplug, I realized just how much communication technology is a part of my life. I couldn’t work on my blog, chat with my peers, check out the weather, plan my drive to work. My routine – along with my link to knowledge and relationships – was completely redefined. And all things said and done, I only really lost access to the Internet."

But I felt like I lost much more. I lost the sense of control I have over my life."

Helge: How would it to do business like in the old time with letters and waiting for days or weeks to get a response.