Enabling Collaboration within Your Organization to Spark Creativity and Innovation Yvonne M. Harryman Microsoft Yvonne M. Harryman Microsoft

Introduction Yvonne Harryman Microsoft - Senior Consultant.NET developer specializing in SharePoint Portal technologies MS in Information Systems and Technology For the past 5 years I have worked on building Enterprise Information Management Systems for companies such as: The White House/Executive Office of the President US Air Force National Institute of Health For more information go to Yvonne Harryman Microsoft - Senior Consultant.NET developer specializing in SharePoint Portal technologies MS in Information Systems and Technology For the past 5 years I have worked on building Enterprise Information Management Systems for companies such as: The White House/Executive Office of the President US Air Force National Institute of Health For more information go to

The Power of Mass Collaboration Key points of Mass Collaboration Collective Action of potentially 1,000 of people with a specific goal. It is often carried out through the use of social software on the internet. Information is “raw” and while one person may not have his voice heard, when you combine thousands it comes across loud and clear. As Time magazine states,” We’re ready to balance our diet of predigested news with raw feeds from Baghdad and Boston and Beijing. You can learn more about how Americans live just by looking at the backgrounds of YouTube videos—those rumpled bedrooms and toy-strewn basement rec rooms—than you could from 1,000 hours of network television.” Key points of Mass Collaboration Collective Action of potentially 1,000 of people with a specific goal. It is often carried out through the use of social software on the internet. Information is “raw” and while one person may not have his voice heard, when you combine thousands it comes across loud and clear. As Time magazine states,” We’re ready to balance our diet of predigested news with raw feeds from Baghdad and Boston and Beijing. You can learn more about how Americans live just by looking at the backgrounds of YouTube videos—those rumpled bedrooms and toy-strewn basement rec rooms—than you could from 1,000 hours of network television.”

The Pioneers EBay is a popular online shopping and auction website. Millions of items are bought and sold daily, that range from collectables to automobiles. This collaborative shopping site brings together shoppers and sellers worldwide thus giving sellers access to an audience of buyers greater than 200 million. Many success stories can be found showing ordinary people opening and starting a business overnight and beating the sales of “brick and mortar” competitors. YouTube (a Google subsidiary) is a popular video sharing website. It allows users to post and view videos over the web for free. You Tube has played a significant role in letting users get information out in the “raw” to a large audience causing disruption in communications media around the world. Second Life is a virtual world in which users, from around the world, can meet and interact through motional avatars. They can also do business using virtual money called “Linden Dollars” which is exchangeable for US Dollars. A Business Week 2006 cover story appeared about a Second Life entrepreneur. It featured how he became the first Second Life Millionaire by selling virtual goods on the web site. EBay is a popular online shopping and auction website. Millions of items are bought and sold daily, that range from collectables to automobiles. This collaborative shopping site brings together shoppers and sellers worldwide thus giving sellers access to an audience of buyers greater than 200 million. Many success stories can be found showing ordinary people opening and starting a business overnight and beating the sales of “brick and mortar” competitors. YouTube (a Google subsidiary) is a popular video sharing website. It allows users to post and view videos over the web for free. You Tube has played a significant role in letting users get information out in the “raw” to a large audience causing disruption in communications media around the world. Second Life is a virtual world in which users, from around the world, can meet and interact through motional avatars. They can also do business using virtual money called “Linden Dollars” which is exchangeable for US Dollars. A Business Week 2006 cover story appeared about a Second Life entrepreneur. It featured how he became the first Second Life Millionaire by selling virtual goods on the web site.

Organizational Collaboration Imagine how effective a mission statement created with input from everyone in the company would be. - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey Imagine how effective a mission statement created with input from everyone in the company would be. - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey

Does it ever feel like you are herding cats? How do you manage creativity or innovation? “It has been said that the process of management of innovation is a lot like herding cats (lots of confusion, not much progress made, and very frustrating.) We prefer to think of it as providing the right environment and fitting innovators into the organizational structure in a clever manner. - Lawrence Husick Collaboration Across Organizational Lines to Promote Innovation: How do you manage creativity or innovation? “It has been said that the process of management of innovation is a lot like herding cats (lots of confusion, not much progress made, and very frustrating.) We prefer to think of it as providing the right environment and fitting innovators into the organizational structure in a clever manner. - Lawrence Husick Collaboration Across Organizational Lines to Promote Innovation:

What is SharePoint? Microsoft collaboration and information management tool Suite of server tools which can be broken into the following components Microsoft collaboration and information management tool Suite of server tools which can be broken into the following components

What is SharePoint? Features  Document Collaboration  Calendar, Task and Custom List  Surveys  Blogs  Wikis  Lite Project Management  Discussion Boards

ACA Scenario

Setting up a Meeting Space

Enabling Document Collaboration

Creating Blogs

Questions? For a copy of the slides and a link to the pictures from our trip to Singapore you can go to: Website: Blog: Links to other resources discussed in this presentation can be found at: Collaboration Across Organizational Lines to Promote Innovation: Community Kit for SharePoint Enhanced Blog Edition (CKS:EBE): For a copy of the slides and a link to the pictures from our trip to Singapore you can go to: Website: Blog: Links to other resources discussed in this presentation can be found at: Collaboration Across Organizational Lines to Promote Innovation: Community Kit for SharePoint Enhanced Blog Edition (CKS:EBE):