Team Collaboration

• Central Desktop Integrates EditGrid … Central Desktop announced an integration with EditGrid, the online spreadsheet solution. Key capabilities: creating, editing and sharing online spreadsheets, importing and exporting from and to Excel, user permissions for access, chart creation, and more. Available immediately, as part of the standard Central Desktop offerings. Central Desktop



• Atlassian Wikipatterns … Atlassian has been working on WikiPatterns, a set of prescriptive guidelines on how to make effective use of a wiki within the enterprise. “In this case, it’s about the patterns and practices that a wiki champion can use within an organization to get people started using this resource (as well as some of the antipatterns that are known to discourage wiki use – like the presence of WikiTrolls or the problem of being Overrun by Camels). On the plus side, you can read about strategies for engaging people from simple (leaving a few typos for them to fix, so they discover how easy it is to edit a wiki page) to more complex (building pages for poker tournament results to demonstrate the low cost of adding a page).” Kewl. WebWorkerDaily
• AT&T Live Meeting … AT&T and Microsoft announced the availability of AT&T Live Meeting, a branded edition of Microsoft’s web conference service. “The foundation for AT&T Live Meeting’s capabilities is the ability to broadcast visuals of any type, including presentations and commonly used document types, to remote participants in real time. With the ability to virtually share any application or document over the Internet, there are essentially no boundaries to what, when, where or with whom users can communicate. This, combined with AT&T traditional and VoIP audioconferencing services, provides customers with complete collaboration capabilities.” Available immediately. Microsoft
• Best Web Calendars … Michael at Wired reviews the options in the world of Web calendars, with Google Calendar being very high on the list as a “standard-setting” service. Others covered are Yahoo Calendar (“one of the most useful”), Scrybe (“impressive”), 30 Boxes (“sort of a social timeline”), and four others. Wired
• Mindmeister … Codemart released the private beta of Mindmeister, its online collaborative mind mapping tool. “When two or more users open the same mindmap at the same time you are in brainstorming mode. Every change you make – be it adding new ideas, deleting bad old ones, or rearranging them within the branches – will be replicated instantly to your fellow editors’ screens via the MindMeister server. Through colour-coded effects they will see what you did and vice versa, no reload necessary. And, if you need to talk to them directly, just click on their name in the footer and start a Skype conference call.” Mindmeister
• Revation LinkLive 3.0 … Revation Systems released Version 3.0 of its LinkLive Suite, a collection of communication tools such as live-chat, email, instant messaging, IM hunt groups, voice over IP and video. “Revation’s online chat and e-mail management technology is designed for organizations in highly regulated industries that want to move customer interactions to lower-cost self-service venues, such as e-commerce sites, without losing personalized and knowledgeable service or sales opportunities. The LinkLive Suite provides a fully secure online communications environment for both internal and external electronic messaging, as well as automated knowledgebase responses to customer inquiries.” Available March 2007. EWorldWire
• PostPath 2.2 … PostPath announced Version 2.2 of its Email and Collaboration Server, a Linux-based Exchange replacement. PostPath offers full compatibility with existing Exchange endpoints and complementary infrastructure items, due to 100% network protocol interoperability within PostPath. “PostPath’s Email and Collaboration Server 2.2 is a Microsoft Exchange alternative that combines unique support for drop-in compatibility with open-source technologies such as Linux and AJAX web-client access, efficient high availability, standards-based backup and restore, high-volume Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) processing, and low-cost commodity storage. It also delivers drop-in compatibility with unmodified Outlook desktops, Active Directory, already-deployed Exchange infrastructure, and other email ecosystem applications such as BlackBerry. The PostPath Server 2.2 can work in an Exchange-free environment or in a mixed open and Exchange environment.” BusinessWire

Mobility

• Palm for Sale? … Some on Wall Street are suggesting that Palm is up for sale; it is unable to keep up with the pace of innovation coming out from its main competitors. RIM BlackBerry and the Samsung BlackJack are more interesting to many device purchasers than Treo devices. ComputerWorld

Productivity

• PowerPoint for Focus … Dwayne shares a way of using 6 slide PowerPoint deck to help the audience focus on the key messages. Genuine Curiosity
• Don’t Live with the Pain (Unnecessarily) … Laura writes from personal experience that if you are suffering from chronic pain, do what you can to get it resolved. Stop just ignoring it. “If you really want to be productive and stop wasting time from being in pain, I’d suggest you brainstorm your top five most significant health problems (headache, high blood pressure, toothache, insomnia, allergies, pain, asthma, hoarseness, acne, foot pain, constipation, joint problems, sinus problems, hair loss, heartburn, etc.) and possible causes. How would you like to feel? Take a moment to visualize what you wish to happen in the future regarding these health issues. Call a new doctor in a different field and get an appointment. Ask your primary care physician for a referral. Spend some time researching the Internet. Don’t take “you’ll have to live with it” as an answer.” The Productivity Pro
• Effective Virtual Work … Mike posts his five point strategy for effective virtual work … (1) set office hours for yourself, (2) keep your co-workers informed about movements and plans, (3) learn to say no, (4) pursue other passions, and (5) think about your life goals. WebWorkerDaily
• Zen and the Art of Time Management … Bill reviews three strategies for being more focused and productive: (1) estimate how long you think each thing on your task list with take; (2) do one task at a time and don’t get distracted, and (3) be focused on what you’re doing in the present, not on a huge variety of other options. PSJ Blog
• Have Multiple Careers … Cindy points to a new book about people that split their careers across multiple jobs, and the benefits thereof. The Work/Life Balancing Act