A colleague of mine recently asked me what my IT research interests are. It got me thinking; I am interested in lots of things, but only a few that I am prepared to put serious time and effort into. Here they are: Personal Knowledge Management Team communication, collaboration and co-ordination,...
Michael; who writes the Shared Spaces blog has recently written about the challenges of collaborative editing of documents/presentations. The problems not too difficult to solve within an business (Net Meeting etc) but solving the problem between businesses (through two sets of firewalls) in a secure fashion is another problem altogether. Its even more difficult if like me you want to do it on an ad-hoc basis, during a telephone or IM conversation, rather than using a multi-user conferencing system like Lotus Same-time, Oracle Collaboration Server or MS Live Meeting.
These are the options that Michael came up with, as these all cost loads of money, require a client installation and lots of coordination between collaborators they don’t fulfil my ad-hoc need, any other areas would be welcome:
This is a great series of articles on different blogging styles, it includes hints and tips on when to use each one and how to use it to best effect. Well worth a read even if you don’t blog, as some of the insights are useful for any type of...