According to research commissioned by the Institute for Innovation & Information Productivity undertaken by Oxford university young people actually don’t handle interrupts very well. In fact older people cope better because of the benefits of a mature brain with many more synaptic connections. The researchers quantified the impact of interruptions...
I’m currently working hard trying to establish a community within CSC. It’s a technical community with stakeholders from all over the company, with lots of different perspectives and drivers. Whilst at the top level we all share business success objectives, scratch below the surface and many diverse objectives (and inconsistent)...
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,...
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...
(updated with a link to Michael’s post that works!) Michael argues that we hide behind the need for culture change on many collaboration projects, his key point is illustrated by this example: if a team can run a project in email then they can run one in a collaboration tool....
I’m not a Office communicator user and have often wondered why Microsoft bothered with multiple products in this space. That was until I read this post, which described the main reasons that Office communicator is better than WLM. The level of differentiation really surprised me and it’s had quite an...
(updated to add missing link later on in the post) Stu has an interesting post on effective collaboration, I think his arrows pointing in the right direction, but I don’t think its the whole story. In Stu’s model we need to have a willing person, a willing team, the right culture...
In this interesting post Mike Gotta asks “Will Microsoft Become Facebook for the Enterprise?” I think the answer is a definite YES. Whilst I think there is a role for LinkedIn or FaceBook for inter-enterprise social networking I still think that Intra-enterprise social networking is hugely important and I think...
Office is on the ropes, there’s no doubt in my mind that Office 2007 is a great product, I use it every day and I would probably go so far as to say that it’s a joy to use. That said I know it’s showing its age, it’s just too...
Jing is a great example of collaboration done right, quick and easy to use, with just a couple of clicks I am able to create a screencast and share it on my blog via screencast.com. Here’s a sample screen cast I created with Jing. Definately worth checking out the demo,...