I am excited about the new Records Management functionality in SharePoint 2007, it should allow a neat separation between the loosely managed collaborative spaces that SharePoint already does fairly well and the need for tightly controlled management of business records. In that context I was pleased to see a new...
I already new that Office SharePoint 2007 was going to support mobile browser access, but this article by Martin Kearn provides a good description and some images that show you what to expect (functional but ugly) Anyway the post has an extra treat, it introduced me to the fact that you...
Some of my friends have implemented Wikis in the enterprise with great success, but right now they are not blogging about it so I need to fall back on this excellent advice provided by Rod Boothby on innovation Creators which is a truly excellent web site on enterprise applications of...
I couldn’t resist entering this contest on Lifehacker! Snap a few pics of your favorite workspace – home office, desk, studio – and send ‘em in to us. Over the next week or so we’ll feature our favorites. Readers will vote on the ultimate coolest workspace – and the winner gets...
Lots of businesses are banning camera phones, it’s really short sighted, the business impact of a camera phone, well integrated into a person’s personal information management workflow will be huge. Microsoft get this and are integrating camera phones into OneNote 2007, complete with OCR capability and Lifehacker recently provided a...
Readers of my blog know only too well that I love screen real-estate having 3 19” screens and I certainly would never go back, what amazes me is the fact that the productivity benefits are truly amazing and yet are largely un-tapped by most businesses. According to Microsoft Research you...
Take a look at this PDF it describes a really simple integration bus – rssbus – that is based on the RSS protocol. It allows you to RSS enable applications and databases and use RSS to subscribe to events that these applications then publish. There are a set of reusable...
As regular readers know I work from home and have a pretty structured workday, partly because of the demands of my job and partly as a coping strategy for a rare form of systemic arthritis that I suffer from. Having recently read a post titled Don’t take orders from your calendar...
I had 10 days off over easter, and we walked every day, and had good weather most days. We didn’t travel very far afield but there are loads of great walks within 20 miles of my house. By the end of the holiday I was feeling great, a few aching...
As I often say I am really focussed on delivering a great end user experience to my customers, Omar describes some of the challenges to achieving this (his context is Microsoft vs iPod): You do not own the end to end experience (you make the software but not the hardware in the...