Tagged: Productivity

I have finally switched from Newsgator to FeedDemon!

I have been using NewsGator for a long time and I have always stuck with it despite using lots of different alternatives.  However I have finally switched to use FeedDemon 2 which is just too slick for Outlook with an add-in to complete with.  main reasons for the switch: Great...

Synchronizing my Desktop, Tablet and Laptop

Frustrated at the manual work needed to keep multiple machines in synch,  then try Allway Sync,  I use it to keep my Desktop, Laptop and Tablet in synch and it’s working great so far,  what follows is a much longer description that might be worth reading if you like detail!...

The Lotus Notes user experience

The Lotus Notes/Domino Hints ad Tips blog is excellent, I am a firm believer in the integrated user experience and this blog is already helping me to use Notes more effectively.  Integrated attachment editing is a feature I already new about, but it illustrates my previous post about user experience...

Fed up with negative news!

I must admit that I rarely listen to or read national or international news,  I find the signal to noise ration to be very low,  I pick up a little from the Saturday paper and from my family and friends.  Of course I scan a lot of focussed blog entries...

Don’t forget the user experience!

Rod describes in this post the importance of posting content in HTML.  He describes his experience of posting an interesting article as a PDF and then later as HTML.  The PDF didn’t generate much traffic,  when he converted to HTML the traffic went wild.  I must admit that I downloaded...

Very useful Lotus Notes utility

There are many ways to automatically paste information into documents,  but if you are a Lotus Notes user this is a very useful utility.  It allows you to click a toolbar button and select from a list of clips which get pasted into you document.  The best things about it...

The blog cycle

I am becoming increasingly convinced that we need to share our working practices with each other,  so we can develop more effective “end to end” life-cycles.  Too often we think in terms of particular products but it’s rare that a single product supports a whole process.  I have some posts...

Enterprise Web 2.0 and BPM

Earlier today I posted an article on Microsoft and Web 2.0 in the enterprise.  The focus of this post was the way in which Microsoft enables end-users and process/data owners at the edge of the business to take advantage of Web 2.0 concepts.  However there is another more rigorous approach than the...

Want to know more about Office 12?

You can find more on Office 12 from the following links, bear in mind that most people (including me) are under NDA so we can only talk about the stuff that’s already been talked about in public.  You can find most of my posts by searching for Office 12 – these...

Office 12 and Web 2.0 in the Enterprise

During the last couple of months I have been discussing some of the business implications of Web 2.0 with Doug Neal,  you can read the result in this document – Management Messages on Web 2.0 – What you need to know about the next generation of the Internet.  The discussion got...