This is a great article if you want to get a good overview of the features of Exchange 2007, these are my favourites: Voice Messaging System Voice mail can now be stored in the mailbox and accessed from a unified inbox in Outlook, Outlook Web Access, on a mobile device,...
One of the more interesting business trends is increasing mobility and how it will change many lives, it’s certainly changed mine allowing me to work from home, out walking, from cafes and restaurants and hotels. So I was pleased to find this very interesting open survey on this critical dimension of...
Mike Gotta provides an excellent description of the concept of context zones and how they allow us to deal with information in a way that reflects our needs, or as Mike puts it: the right information, at the right time, in the right context, has been a holy grail for...
I have just come across a post by Eric Mack describing a customer who was considering scrapping Lotus Notes, it didn’t take long for Eric to help them realise just how much value Notes was and could deliver to them. I told them that I thought they should switch away...
Dave Pollard provides a great review of Writely for collaborative editing, it’s especially useful because he includes a sample document that was edited by a group of people with no real familiarity with the tool. It demonstrates to me that whilst Writely might have a useful role as an embedded web...
One of my most popular posts was a mind map that attempted to capture the main themes of Daniel Pink’s A Whole New Mind. Presentation Zen has a great post which applies the themes in the book to presentations and it’s well worth a read. I particularly liked one of the...
Yesterday I wrote a post that touched on my frustration with web based team collaboration spaces, lots of people agree and some even got around to commenting which is not that common on my blog! My experience is that many people find collaborative spaces difficult because: They require an additional...
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...
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. ...
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...