The Inescapable data blog has two recent posts (here and here) that describe some of the gathering momentum around home working that are worth reading. I am a great fan of home working personally, although I have some short term reservations about how home working is often implemented by companies. ...
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...
I have just spent most of the day listening to a group of people debate how my company should develop a range of new service offerings. Lots of opinions, not many new ideas and a lot of obstacles. I finished the day not particularly encouraged by the prospects but not...
I upgraded from Vista beta 2 to Vista 5456 and I previously thought that it was 5456 that broke Maxthon but others in the news groups had it working. So I have finally found time to do a clean install of Vista 5456 rather than an upgrade and Maxthon is...
With everyone seeming to praise the latest Vista build 5456 I took the plunge and updated Beta 2 on my TC1100. A few things of note so far: The upgrade took nearly 2 hours! I had to re-install upgrades to my Graphics card from Windows update My admin account was...
Microsoft have just published a set of short videos that give a great introduction of the new features in Exchange 2007, definitely worth checking out. Most of these videos use OWA, for more information on Outlook 2007 with Exchange 2007 check out the better together site. I liked the unified messaging videos...
I have a bit of a backlog of podcasts so I have not had a chance to listen to this one yet, but the show notes look very promising: Why is Sametime 7.5 NOT “just another chat client”? What are some of the reasons you’ll want to upgrade from older...
This video is definitely worth checking out, in it Marissa Mayer talks about innovation and culture in Google, in summary the principles they follow are: Ideas come from everywhere Cheer everything you can You’re brilliant, we’re hiring A license to pursue dreams Innovation, not instant perfection Data is apolitical Creativity...
I must have been asleep during May because I missed the announcement of this tool, which is an add-on to Office SharePoint 2007 and also includes a client component that allows an individual to control the information from their local Email folders and IM that they want to submit to SharePoint...
Activity centric computing is central to IBM’s personal knowledge management and collaboration vision and this paper lays out some of the underlying concepts that we will hopefully see start to emerge in the Hannover release. The following snippet from the paper lays out the challenge IBM is trying to address: The...