Cool Danish friends: Connecta

Although it was a highly international event, last year’s Reboot conference in Copenhagen offered an opportunity to meet people in the social software and consulting industries in Denmark. (I grew up in Copenhagen and speak the language.) Returning with a bunch of new feeds from Denmark in my newsreader it wasn’t long before I started noticing the many references to Connecta (about Connecta - in English, their blog - in Danish).

Connecta boasts an impressive list of clients: Danish multinationals (such as Maersk, Lego, Chr Hansen) as well as organisations highly regarded within the Danish borders but not that well known internationally (e.g. Monday Morning and the navy’s corps of combat divers). The team has also helped set up a number of CEO blogs and provided coaching; one example is the weblog (in Danish) published by Lars Kolind, author of business books and former boss of Oticon, a hearing aids designer.

A recent project by Connecta is Kollektiv Intelligens (in Danish), a project to write a book about collective intelligence. The aim is to engage thousands of people in the authoring process and create a community with shared interests. A wiki has been set up to manage the writing process but the use of collaborative technologies does not stop there: The site also includes a blog, a discussion forum, a prediction market and a place to announce events related to the project. The component parts are all open source software, integrated with single sign-on and a consistent interface – a showcase of web 2.0 technologies. Perhaps it will be possible to “crowdsource” translations of the final product into other languages.

After collaborating with Connecta online and meeting the founders Hans Henrik H. Heming and Jacob Bøtter, I am proud to announce that the clients I work with through Zonoma will have access to Connecta’s expertise – in Danish or English.

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