Monthly Archive: March 2006

My desktop

I am frequently asked what software I use so I have decided to maintain a number of posts that describe my working environment.  I will describe it in layers, so it’s easier to understand and hopefully maintain.  You can find the maintained posts in the folder My work environment. The first...

Will Windows Vista Suck?

I am personally still working through beta issues with Windows Vista and really don’t have the hardware to do it justice, so my summary opinion right now is “I see some potential, but lots of change and no very clear benefit”.  However that opinion may well change as we get...

Workstyles and end-user experience

I get very encouraged when I hear IT people worrying about the way people actually work, and even more so when they realise that the IT industry has not taken this issue seriously enough.  IT people too often think in terms of features and not in terms of real-world business...

Enterprise Web 2.0 and BPM

Earlier today I posted an article on Microsoft and Web 2.0 in the enterprise.  The focus of this post was the way in which Microsoft enables end-users and process/data owners at the edge of the business to take advantage of Web 2.0 concepts.  However there is another more rigorous approach than the...

Want to know more about Office 12?

You can find more on Office 12 from the following links, bear in mind that most people (including me) are under NDA so we can only talk about the stuff that’s already been talked about in public.  You can find most of my posts by searching for Office 12 – these...

Office 12 and Web 2.0 in the Enterprise

During the last couple of months I have been discussing some of the business implications of Web 2.0 with Doug Neal,  you can read the result in this document – Management Messages on Web 2.0 – What you need to know about the next generation of the Internet.  The discussion got...

Keeping up to date with Groove

I find it very difficult to keep up to date with what’s going on in Groove,  I only have 3 workspaces,  but that’s three additional places to go to look for updates.  Last night I mentioned to Doug that there should be a way to subscribe to changes in Groove...

Update on OnTime

In this post I described OnTime which is a great product for activity and task management (not great for project management), it’s free for use by a single individual.  Well one of the great features appeared to be the ability to integrate it with email.  This is achieved by creating...

RSS feeds at work

I have just tested out the first RSS feeds from my companies enterprise portal,  worked fine once I had authenticated (we use forms based authentication using SiteMinder) from within the RSS reader (in this case RSS Bandit).  I usually use NewsGator but in my quick test it didn’t seem possible...