I personally love IM and when I am at my desk I use it probably 10 times more than I use Email and I shudder to think how many emails I would need to send in order to iterate to the information I want by passing emails back and forth...
Although I work from home and tend to be always connected to the Internet, I still find that I really like to use products that allow me to work off-line. Not only is the performance often better, but it’s more reliable and I still spend a couple of hours a...
Microsoft’s Knowledge network looks interesting, it uses a client side component to gather information from your PC including email authors and recipients, Outlook contacts, IM contacts, manager (as defined in Active Directory), managers direct reports and your direct reports and SharePoint 2007 colleagues and it also analyses email subject and body text...
Collaboration is a key competency for today’s enterprises and yet despite the fact that the Internet is awash with a myriad of different collaboration solutions many teams still struggle to be effective and most projects continue to fail by at least one metric. Many people assume that collaboration comes naturally...
Rod Boothby has some useful comments on a list of the top 10 management fears associated with enterprise adoption of web 2.0 technologies. Here are my comments on Rod’s comments! in blue Enterprise Web 2.0 Technological Barriers 1. How can I be certain that the information that is gathered and...
I am a big advocate of well designed workplaces, so I was interested to see this post about the Workplace Advantage activity at Microsoft. One of my favorite principles is to provide a flexible environment that the teams can change easily to suit their evolving needs and I have written...
I have long held the belief that successful collaboration is not so much about getting fancy technology and much more about process, culture and careful deployment and use of the technologies you do have. I was therefore pleased to see the results of a survey on collaboration that S. Ann...
Although I have not yet had chance to try IBM’s workplace client and have only seen marketing material around Hannover, IBM seem to be about to pull off a neat trick – building a modern flexible platform and still delivering compatibility with existing Notes applications. This is something that Microsoft...
All too often when we talk about collaboration as IT folk we start by discussing all of the great new technologies that are available, or at least that’s what I did a decade ago. Now I tend to focus on the people so it was very refreshing to read a...
Rod Boothby has an interesting article describing some the the real business applications of blogs. He chose managing projects in this example and I am a big supporter of this. I have spent a lot of time observing projects and programmes failing and think that blogs can play a really...