Who shares!

Share = tell otherS that you know

The more You Share your ideas, the more your reputation as an expert will grow. Tuomo Peltola is a senior consultant at Digia Plc, an information and communications system integrator. he says at the workplace, there should be no such thing as my documents. only the information which must be kept classified for legal reasons should remain as such. all other information should be shared. Importantly, this concerns everything that relates to the business, not just documents. everyone can develop a culture of sharing in his or her own workplace. often work colleagues are unwilling to share unfinished work. People do not have the courage to hand over drafts, rough ideas and unfinished plans for others to evaluate. many are afraid that their competency will be questioned. text: Satu rm ThIS mYTh muST be DIScarDeD. In this information-wrought world, nobody is able to grasp any one thing in its entirety. after all, multiple viewpoints are needed to create progress and discover new things. This is why increasing cooperation is essential. Digia is a large organization with over a 1,000 professional employees. In a big company like this, many different cultures are represented. Some teams share large amounts of information in their projects and often make use of wikis, for example. blog writing has also been introduced in the company. a big ship does not turn quickly, but eventually it does, believes Peltola. how do you steer a large organization towards team-based working and information sharing? most important is to create a culture that supports team work and sharing ideas. one good way to do this is to form teams with different-aged members. having professionals with long careers, as well as those from younger social media generations in the same team, keeps the organization fresh. having a good mix of members in a group ensures that it has plenty of valuable information and natural ways of sharing it. When one team succeeds, others will soon want

Sharing is now cutting-edge in business. It is the seed to success. You are what you share, so start sharing!

to follow suit. Peltola gives one good example of everyday sharing at the workplace: chats and sharable desktops. Let us imagine you are struggling with a difficult assignment at work. You know that there are a few very experienced colleagues who are experts in the issue you are dealing with. When you start talking in chat and share your screen with them, you can solve the problem together. It does not matter if you are not located in the same office, or even in the same country. In SharIng, everYboDY WInS. When you share something, you receive new viewpoints from others. When you share something, others become aware of your expertise. When you share something, you are, in fact, telling others that you know. at the same time, your knowledge increases and you receive fresh viewpoints, thus further improving your know-how on the subject.

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meSh your buSineSS

Lisa Gansky encourages us to rethink how we do business, shop, buy services and consume. She serves as the co-founder and ceo of multiple Internet companies, including ofoto and gnn. gansky is also an investor, speaker and mother of The Mesh. Social media and wireless networks allow us to track down almost anything. They decrease the distance from the company to the client, from consumer to service provider, and from manager to worker. gansky thinks the sharing society, The mesh, will trump the ownership society. Why bother buying something that you hardly ever use when you can easily have access to it when you need it? If you own something and are not constantly using it, why not make money from it during the downtime? Sharing-based businesses are a big opportunity in creating new businesses and renewing old ones. The worlds biggest car-sharing company, Zipcar, has redefined private transportation. airbnb connects travelers in need of short-term renting with people who have the available space. and these are just a few examples.
WanT To KnoW more? Read Lisa Ganskys book The Mesh: Why the Future of Business is Sharing and you will know how companies can profit while customers buy less but use more.

Ideas take on a lIfe of their own when they are shared. serial entrepreneur lisa Gansky tells about a situation where sharing really hit it big. We started the first online printing and sharing service, ofoto, in 1999, and then sold it to Kodak (now Kodak gallery). During our first big christmas season, we realized that the orders were going to exceed our capacity. We opened up a company-wide discussion about where we could be flexible. Since the quality of the product and service were central to our brand, we agreed to take control of all the production ourselves. everyone was sharing ideas and, in the end, the conclusion was one I certainly would not have reached myself: we produced the pending orders based on postal code. Those farthest from our california location were completed first, so that there was enough time to ship them out. all West coast orders were dealt with last, and the day before christmas, we loaded up our cars and hand-delivered packages to our customers. The sharing of what seemed like a mundane but necessary part of our business brought us all much closer to our customers and, to our pleasure, made the customers much more thrilled about our company. We became a team in creating and delivering that idea. It was unexpected and powerful.

You can use Toolbox materials at work or when giving a presentation, link them to your blog or forward the entire Toolbox to your colleagues. The background ideas are available in a variety of web sources.

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Sharing makes you happier.

check out http://www. ted.com/talks/ michael_nielsen_ open_science_ now.html

According to a report by Co-operatives UK, Great Sharing Economy, eight out of ten people say that sharing makes them happy.

open Science now!

What if scientists could share their data as easily as they tweet about their lunch? a physicistturned-writer michael nielsen asks scientists to embrace new tools for collaboration that will enable discoveries to happen at the speed of Twitter. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it came to be expected that scientists publish their findings in a journal. now, we need a second openscience revolution where online communication and collaboration tools will revolutionize the way scientific discoveries are made. embrace new kinds of sharing that lead to new methods of problem-solving and acceleration in the entire process of science across the board. reinvent the discovery itself, nielsen demands in his inspiring presentation.

Sharing is not only changing our way of working or consuming. It is changing our whole life.
A book authored by social innovator Rachel Botsman and serial entrepreneur Roo Rogers tells you why mine should also be yours. Whats Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption is Changing the Way We Live describes how technology enables the exchange of all kinds of assets from money to cars, to skills and paraphernalia on a scale never before possible. P.S. TIME magazine called Collaborative Consumption One of the ten ideas that will change the world.

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Share and learn: top learning toolS

use these tools to learn and share. the centre for learning & performance technologies listed the 2011 top tools for learning. one thing is for sure: it is all about sharing.
Twitter.com. micro-sharing site YouTube.com. video-sharing tool Docs.google.com. create and share your work online Skype.com. chat messaging/voIP tool Wordpress.org. blogging tool Dropbox.com. File-synching software Prezi.com. Presentation software moodle.com. course management system Slideshare.net. Presentation sharing site edu.glogster.com. Interactive poster tool
check out To find out more about sharing and learning tools, go to http://c4lpt.co.uk/.

You are what you share

SlideShare is the worlds largest community for sharing presentations. over 60 million people use the site every month to watch and share presentations.

Here is wHy you sHould do it, too:

SlideShare makes it easy for you to share presentations just type in your link. People can share your presentation with others via Facebook, Twitter and the blogosphere. When your work is being shared, you increase your digital footprint. The more people share your ideas, the more reputation you will achieve as an expert in your area. You can find great presentations that others have written, which saves you time. Its free. Ironically, one of the most often viewed SlideShare presentations is about the death of PowerPoint.

check out How to make a presentation worth of a share: http://www. slideshare.net/ thecroaker/deathby-powerpoint

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