Comments on: What a coffee corner provides, how to call it and a research agenda http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2009/11/27/what-a-coffee-corner-provides-how-to-call-it-and-a-research-agenda/ Lilia Efimova on personal productivity in knowledge-intensive environments, weblog research, knowledge management, PhD, serendipity and lack of work-life balance... Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:22:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: John David Smith http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2009/11/27/what-a-coffee-corner-provides-how-to-call-it-and-a-research-agenda/comment-page-1/#comment-26399 John David Smith Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:37:57 +0000 http://blog.mathemagenic.com/?p=2925#comment-26399 One resource is Charlotte Linde's "Working the Past; Narrative and Institutional Memory" (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009) http://isbn.nu/9780195140293 . On p 47 she presents a typology that I find really useful. She talks about types of social occasions and types of places: "Occasions for narrative remembering." One resource is Charlotte Linde’s “Working the Past; Narrative and Institutional Memory” (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009) http://isbn.nu/9780195140293 . On p 47 she presents a typology that I find really useful. She talks about types of social occasions and types of places: “Occasions for narrative remembering.”

]]> By: Shrunken communication in distributed teams (the egg of communication : — Mathemagenic) http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2009/11/27/what-a-coffee-corner-provides-how-to-call-it-and-a-research-agenda/comment-page-1/#comment-26219 Shrunken communication in distributed teams (the egg of communication : — Mathemagenic) Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:18:03 +0000 http://blog.mathemagenic.com/?p=2925#comment-26219 [...] if your email is ’spamming’, add “by the way, do you also know…” or most of the conversations at the coffee corner. In this case communication is triggered by an opportunity – bumping into people, interesting [...] [...] if your email is ’spamming’, add “by the way, do you also know…” or most of the conversations at the coffee corner. In this case communication is triggered by an opportunity – bumping into people, interesting [...]

]]> By: frogpond » Knowledge worker workplaces, toolsets and configurations http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2009/11/27/what-a-coffee-corner-provides-how-to-call-it-and-a-research-agenda/comment-page-1/#comment-26198 frogpond » Knowledge worker workplaces, toolsets and configurations Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:02:59 +0000 http://blog.mathemagenic.com/?p=2925#comment-26198 [...] space. As we’ve been dicussing what one needs for a likeable and efficient workplace (from coffee corners, open office spaces vs. silent single rooms, meeting rooms and a library) some other recent posts I [...] [...] space. As we’ve been dicussing what one needs for a likeable and efficient workplace (from coffee corners, open office spaces vs. silent single rooms, meeting rooms and a library) some other recent posts I [...]

]]> By: Colin Milligan http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2009/11/27/what-a-coffee-corner-provides-how-to-call-it-and-a-research-agenda/comment-page-1/#comment-26027 Colin Milligan Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:59:22 +0000 http://blog.mathemagenic.com/?p=2925#comment-26027 Thanks for the interesting post Lilia, I'm also interested in the way that a goal or activity emerges or coalesces out of the mass of thoughts and interactions we have. I'm not sure I can come up with a better word for you. To me, I think it's about the right people coming together at the right time, with the right (recent) experience. This made me think of words like moment, or instance, but perhaps these are too focused on the 'time' component. The word intersection seemed good to me, as it captures the meeting point of two independent paths. As for your wider interest, a recent post by Martin Weller at http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2009/11/how-do-you-connect-the-rise-of-serendipity.html should be stimulating: the way we maintain lightweight connections to others in our networks through blogs/comments, twitter etc. means we can easily activate those relationships to work productively. Thanks for the interesting post Lilia, I’m also interested in the way that a goal or activity emerges or coalesces out of the mass of thoughts and interactions we have. I’m not sure I can come up with a better word for you. To me, I think it’s about the right people coming together at the right time, with the right (recent) experience. This made me think of words like moment, or instance, but perhaps these are too focused on the ‘time’ component. The word intersection seemed good to me, as it captures the meeting point of two independent paths.

As for your wider interest, a recent post by Martin Weller at http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2009/11/how-do-you-connect-the-rise-of-serendipity.html should be stimulating: the way we maintain lightweight connections to others in our networks through blogs/comments, twitter etc. means we can easily activate those relationships to work productively.

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