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...
Microsoft are right to be concerned about the fact that their customers uses perhaps only 20% of the capabilities of their products and their bold move – to radically change the UI – was definitely needed. I have found myself making great use of the new formatting capabilities in Excel...
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...
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...
OneNote 2003 already has one of the most comprehensive implementations of “flags” that I have seen in any software, and it’s getting even better in OneNote 2007, this post gives some details. It’s worth reading for three reasons: If you use OnNote you can learn a lot If you are...
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. ...
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...
I have just installed Vista RC1 – build 5600 – and want to use the trick I posted a while back that allows me to disconnect from a remote desktop connection to my Tablet, without my tablet locking (i.e. presenting the login screen). On XP to do this I would...
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...