A group's collective intelligence reflects its capacity to perform well across a variety of cognitive tasks and it transcends the individual intelligence of its members. Previous research shows that group members' social sensitivity is a potential antecedent of collective intelligence, yet it is still unclear whether individual or group-level indices are responsible for the positive association between social sensitivity and collective intelligence. In a comprehensive manner, we test the extent to which both compositional (lowest and highest individual score) and compilational aspects (emergent group level) of social sensitivity are associated with collective intelligence. This study has implications for research that explores groups as information processors, and for group design as it indicates how a group should be composed with respect to social sensitivity if the group is to reach high levels of collective intelligence. Our empirical results indicate that collectively intelligent groups are those in which the least socially sensitive group member has a rather high score on social sensitivity. Differently stated, (socially sensitive) group members cannot compensate for the lack of social sensitivity of the other group members.

Collaborative or team writing is the process of producing a written work as a group where all team members contributed to the content and the decisions about how the group will function. Group assignments can be difficult for many students with busy schedules because they require planning, coordination, and frequent communication with other students. However,...

Today’s guest post is from Grace Thomas, Senior Digital Collections Specialist on the Library of Congress Web Archiving Team. You can read more about the Web Archiving Team right here on the Signal. In the web archiving community, we build the plane and fly it simultaneously. While this pattern is present in most disciplines, web […]

Today I’m leading a session for Lead Dev Together on what makes a good process. LeadDev Together is a seven-part virtual event series featuring talks and panels from engineering leaders on to…

Nice intro to systems analysis

Making informed and accurate projections of skills, time and materials needed for projects is key to responsibly managing the resources and collections entrusted to us. In the realm of archives …

Everything you ever wanted to know about RACI charts (or RASCI, if you prefer that version). Includes a RACI example and a video. Plus a free roles and responsibilities template. Basically, a bumper post about the project responsibilities assignment matrix!

Sam Hartman has announced that he will not run for a second term as Debian Project Leader at this time. "TL;DR: Overall, being DPL has been incredibly rewarding.  I have enjoyed working with you all, and have enjoyed the opportunity to contribute to the Debian Project.  I hope to be DPL again some year, but 2020 is the wrong year for me and for the project. So I will not nominate myself this year, but hope to do so some future year."

What happens when a DH project finds out something errybody in the area already knew.

Nature - Disagreements among international partners leave plans to digitize the Italian city’s history in limbo.

Asynchronous communication is when replies don't happen in real-time—like meetings or instant messages—but rather on your own timeline.

[Cross-posted from the Re:Thinking blog at CLIR, the Council on Library and Information Resources, where I'm honored to serve as Distinguished Presidential Fellow. Check out all the great content at CLIR!] In recent years, we’ve guided four separate cohorts of the graduate fellows who participate...