Thinking about collaboration today, I was telling my friend Karl over coffee about joining CPsquare. (more on this later or another day). He asked me if I remembered the relationship between Lotus Notes and VAX NOTES. (We are both alumni of Digital Equipment, one of the first networked companies, where communities of interest and communities of practice abounded long before there was a name for them.) My friend Karl came up with some history pages for people who are interested:
I wrote up my personal reflections on the use of NOTES in Digital for KM Magazine. Please send me a note if you’d like a copy.