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  • Bonnie Bogle
    Dec 3, 2009
    Success Metrics from the World Bank's Open Atrium Based Intranet
    Big growth in buy in and use of the Communicate collaboration system
    Yesterday Eric joined Ric Castro, an information officer at the World Bank, in a presentation on how to make social software work for your team at the Potomac Forum. Ric manages Communicate, the Open Atrium powered hub that 1,000+ people use at the...
  • Ian Cairns
    Oct 2, 2009
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    Mapping Innovation at the World Bank with Open Atrium
    Using map and faceted search features to improve collaboration
    Open Atrium is being used as a base platform for collaboration at the World Bank because of its feature flexibility. Last week the World Bank launched a new Open Atrium site called "Innovate," which is being used to support an organization-wide...
  • Ian Ward
    Nov 3, 2008
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    Improving Knowledge Management at the World Bank with Drupal
    Creating Group Work Spaces Using Organic Groups, Spaces & Context
    We recently upgraded the knowledge management system of the World Bank’s communications team. We had worked with their team two years ago to build the system – then meant to facilitate internal communications and keep everyone informed on...
  • Bonnie Bogle
    Oct 10, 2007
    World Bank: One of the Five Big Companies that Gets Knowledge Management
    Baseline Magazine Looks at How the Bank Does Knowledge Management
    I received a nice email this morning with a link to an article on knowledge management and was pleasantly surprised to see that it named the World Bank as one of the top five companies that gets knowledge management. What great credit for the...
  • Eric Gundersen
    Jun 19, 2007
    Salon.com Features World Bank's use of Managing News and Drupal
    Our Team Aggregator Catches Some Buzz
    Salon.com has an awesome story today about Pierre Wielezynski's work helping the World Bank become better listeners. The article explores why he came up with some of the functionality that we built for him in the BuzzMonitor, or what is now being...
  • Eric Gundersen
    Jun 11, 2007
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    The World Bank News Tracker Demonstration
    The World Bank just made its open source aggregator BuzzMonitor available to the public to take for a test drive. This is great news. We worked with the World Bank to build the system, based on Pierre Wielezynski's ideas for source profiling, Yahoo...
  • Eric Gundersen
    May 2, 2007
    3 comments
    Better Displaying Events on Intranets: Groupwise doesn't cut it.
    Handle Your Content More Intelligently
    There are smarter ways to handle your events than with a classic calendar on groupwise. We recently installed the MIT Timeline module for CommNET, a staff intranet at The World Bank that helps its geographically disperse teams communicate better....
  • Eric Gundersen
    Nov 20, 2006
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    Web4Development Conference at UN Headquarters
    I’m in New York City today for the Web4Development Conference at the United Nations. It’s my first time here and am enjoying sitting at one of the classic desks with the earpieces for live translations, featured in movies like ‘The Interpreter...