I have a bit of a backlog of podcasts so I have not had a chance to listen to this one yet, but the show notes look very promising: Why is Sametime 7.5 NOT “just another chat client”? What are some of the reasons you’ll want to upgrade from older...
This video is definitely worth checking out, in it Marissa Mayer talks about innovation and culture in Google, in summary the principles they follow are: Ideas come from everywhere Cheer everything you can You’re brilliant, we’re hiring A license to pursue dreams Innovation, not instant perfection Data is apolitical Creativity...
I must have been asleep during May because I missed the announcement of this tool, which is an add-on to Office SharePoint 2007 and also includes a client component that allows an individual to control the information from their local Email folders and IM that they want to submit to SharePoint...
Activity centric computing is central to IBM’s personal knowledge management and collaboration vision and this paper lays out some of the underlying concepts that we will hopefully see start to emerge in the Hannover release. The following snippet from the paper lays out the challenge IBM is trying to address: The...
Rob Boothby has written yet another excellent paper on the subject of web office, which is his term for a collection of web based tools which are rapidly disrupting established business systems for knowledge workers, key elements of the toolkit include not surprisingly blogs, wikis, social networking, search, podcasting/event recording,...
A few weeks ago I had the good fortune to come across a recorded talk by Thomas Malone on the future of work. Tom is a great speaker and conveys his key messages very clearly, and the implications of the message is definitely important for anyone working on personal knowledge...
I just came across a really good – long – but comprehensive description of IBM Workplace Collaboration Services. The article sets out to address the following challenge: Long-time users of IBM Lotus Notes and Domino (especially those using them for more than just email) know full well the richness of...
A couple of days ago I wrote a post that discussed the importance of considering blogs and Wikis as a complementary pair technologies. Today I came across this great description of a blog on Rod Boothby’s blog: a blog is an entire CMS implementation for one person, available free and at the...
Ed has written a well considered response to my comments yesterday, the comments to his post are just as interesting. I think I learned a few useful things today: A lot of people think Ed has pitched his blog just right, and really appreciate the frequent Microsoft related postings. In fact Alan Lepofsky...