Daily Archive: September 12, 2006

Email as a collaboration tool

Despite having access to a wide variety of collaboration tools, email and IM continue to be the tools I use most often,  in particular I struggle to use collaborative workspaces efficiently.  Why do I keep using email? It works great offline I can keep an offline replica on all of...

Should schools ban homework?

I have read a few posts recently – this is the best one – on the subject of banning homework.  I am personally in favour for two reasons: I think it switches many kids off school Most of the creative project work kids do ends up being at home on...

SharePoint 2007 – middleware for the masses

I have been playing around with SharePoint 2007 for a while now and I think I am most impressed by the power that it puts into the hands of IT savvy end users, to create line of business solutions and to enhance these solutions further by integration with Office 2007.  ...

Email growth

 A few months ago Om Malik posted some predictions about email growth by 2010 that had been published by the Radicati Group,  although the raw numbers were impressive, the growth wasn’t except for the growth in the number of wireless email users.          The graphic was done...

When to use IM

I personally love IM and when I am at my desk I use it probably 10 times more than I use Email and I shudder to think how many emails I would need to send in order to iterate to the information I want by passing emails back and forth...