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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I have always written a weekly highlight report, but now I’m finding that Twitter is a nice complement, its very easy and natural to provide these short twitter updates and having a client always available on my laptop, desktop and Blackberry means there’s a low threshold to overcome. If you...
I might be stretching a point a little (well actually quite a lot) with the title, but just like Software as a Service gets rid of all the redundant effort that goes on in every enterprise delivering software, so Architecture as a Service is doing the same thing. A few examples of...