Monthly Archive: November 2007

Oh My! Long walks here I come!

I just found out that the audios (and videos) of my favourite conference – POP!TECH – have all been published! The dialogue will cover a wide range of topics, from new ways of measuring humanity’s global impact and the promise of bottom-up solutions to global poverty, to the future of...

Social collaboration

Chuck (from EMC) has a nice post on their behind the firewall experiments with social collaboration, and I particularly liked this quote: One of the ways people can work together is around a document.  People contribute, edit, revise, approve and distribute documents, reports, and so on. Sure, people are interacting,...

Is SharePoint a …

Irwin Lazar asks: Is SharePoint a Web 2.0 platform? Is SharePoint a content management system? Is SharePoint a workflow manager? Is SharePoint a social computing platform? Or is SharePoint a portal to other applications? and concludes that although SharePoint is to some extent all of these things: Well…the answer to...

In praise of slow

Mark Greiner (Senior Vice-President and leader of Steelcase’s WorkSpace Futures team) has a very interesting blog on a very neglected subject, at least in my view as  I’m a big believer in workspace design and have posted often on the subject.  I was pleased to see Mark discover the book...

How I Manage My Time

On the flight home yesterday I was thinking about how I manage my time, and relaxing in a Cafe after a long walk I thought I would jot down some notes.  First a little about me and my job: I am currently in a vision and strategy role, but really...

How do I do this in Lotus Notes?

I quite like Lotus Notes, sort of grown accustomed to it over the years, but it’s handling of tasks really frustrates me.  This is what I want: Most of my tasks come in via email When an email arrives that I want to turn into a task I want to...

Another virtual flip on the horizon

In my home lab I’m always flipping between VMware and Microsoft Virtual Server (and clients), with the announcement of a new version of VMware server it looks like another flips on the horizon.  Probably when I update the lab hosts to Windows Server 2008.  Windows Server 2008 is looking very...

Vista vs Linux

I don’t run Linux on a day to day basis, but I was interested to see the sparring between Joe Wilcox and Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols both from eWeek both trying to make the case for the superiority of Vista and Linux respectively.  My own take, I’m with Joe – I...

Migration to WordPress

For the last few years I have been blogging using the Blogware platform hosted by www.blogharbor.com and I have been very happy with the service.  But the Blogware platform is aging a bit and there’s little development activity going on so I started to get a little nervous about the...

Facebook

I’m still not sure about Facebook, as a business tool – seems to be a bit of a time consumer so far, but I can see it’s appeal for kids.  Taking a look at Grahams profile gave me a few ideas so at least I have a little content there now...