Rob Boothby has written yet another excellent paper on the subject of web office, which is his term for a collection of web based tools which are rapidly disrupting established business systems for knowledge workers, key elements of the toolkit include not surprisingly blogs, wikis, social networking, search, podcasting/event recording,...
A few weeks ago I had the good fortune to come across a recorded talk by Thomas Malone on the future of work. Tom is a great speaker and conveys his key messages very clearly, and the implications of the message is definitely important for anyone working on personal knowledge...
I just came across a really good – long – but comprehensive description of IBM Workplace Collaboration Services. The article sets out to address the following challenge: Long-time users of IBM Lotus Notes and Domino (especially those using them for more than just email) know full well the richness of...
A couple of days ago I wrote a post that discussed the importance of considering blogs and Wikis as a complementary pair technologies. Today I came across this great description of a blog on Rod Boothby’s blog: a blog is an entire CMS implementation for one person, available free and at the...
Ed has written a well considered response to my comments yesterday, the comments to his post are just as interesting. I think I learned a few useful things today: A lot of people think Ed has pitched his blog just right, and really appreciate the frequent Microsoft related postings. In fact Alan Lepofsky...
Ed Brill has one of the few blogs that evangelize what IBM is doing in the collaboration space, and it really bugs me that there are so few and that they rarely show much passion for the great products that IBM has in this area. Ed recently compared his blog...
I keep hearing people describe IT as increasingly commoditized and they are often discussing PC’s and office products at the time. This gets me frustrated because in my experience these particular technologies are anything but commodities. Although there are very many definitions of commodity I used to think that Peter...
I really like simple models to communicate ideas, and I often see good ideas in the communications section of Ezine. The following diagram illustrates one of their planning tools for communicating a new idea. The text is a summary from the article but the graphic is mine. Take a sheet...
Larry takes issue with the fact that people always talk about “Blogs and Wikis” at the same time when in fact they are are very different. To further the point Larry quotes Tim Bray who said in this post “I don’t think blogs are really a new thing in the...
I posted a quick update on my experiences with home working yesterday, but thought I would provide some additional details, particularly in terms of my technology setup and some of the technology shortcomings. First off, when I work from home I really don’t want to be tied to my desk...