Advanced Collaboration Research

Sharing practical ways to engage in the Collaboration Revolution

Personality, Gender, and Age in the Language of Social Media: The Open-Vocabulary Approach

We analyzed 700 million words, phrases, and topic instances collected from the Facebook messages of 75,000 volunteers, who also took standard…
Brandon Klein Aug 16, 2014

Learning and Development - Nothing Has Changed. Everything Has Changed.

I’ve recently read Clark Quinn’s excellent new ‘Revolutionize Learning & Development’ book. Clark always provides a thoughtful and enlightening…
Brandon Klein Aug 16, 2014

Giant pencil lamp

The HB Lamp is the debut product from Michael & George and the first in our Stationery Object range. A made to order design piece that aims to elicit…
Brandon Klein Aug 16, 2014

Inducing Peer Pressure to Promote Cooperation

Cooperation in a large society of self-interested individuals is notoriously difficult to achieve when the externality of one individual's action is…
Brandon Klein Aug 16, 2014

Why Do We Need Self-Organising Teams?

“The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organising teams”, the Agile Manifesto announces. This raises a few questions:…
Brandon Klein Aug 16, 2014

Video - machines taking 45% of human jobs

Great 15 minute video showing the future of machines.
Brandon Klein Aug 16, 2014

Collective Experience of Empathic Data Systems (

The project is called CEEDS — aka Collective Experience of Empathetic Data Systems — and involves a consortium of 16 different research partners…
Brandon Klein Aug 12, 2014

Let The Network Do The Work

One of the most striking things I see when watching organizations make the transition from legacy industrial models of working to new network-based…
Brandon Klein Aug 08, 2014

List of 25+ Natural Language Processing APIs

Natural Language Processing APINatural Language Processing, or NLP, is a field of computer science, artificial intelligence, and linguistics…
Brandon Klein Aug 08, 2014

LittleSis* is a free database of who-knows-who at the heights of business and government.

LittleSis features interlinked profiles of powerful individuals and organizations in the public and private sectors. Profiles detail a wealth of…
Brandon Klein Jul 31, 2014