Team Collaboration

• IceMAIL with Hosted BlackBerry … IceWEB, a hosting services provider, announced that new customers signing up to its IceMAIL service (hosted Microsoft Exchange) will receive 90-days of free BlackBerry hosting. Exchange hosting is $9.95 per month per user. BusinessWire
• JotSpot Customers are Unhappy … At least, some of them are, following the acquisition of JotSpot by Google. Main problems are poor Web site availability, and lack of insight into Google’s plan for the JotSpot technology going forward. InfoWorld
• Extranet Collaboration Manager for SharePoint 2007 … SharePoint Solutions released the Extranet Collaboration Manager for SharePoint 2007, to simplify the process of enabling cross-organizational collaboration through SharePoint 2007. “Extranet Collaboration Manager for SharePoint 2007 simplifies the provisioning and maintenance of extranet SharePoint sites for use with business partners. It enables companies to delegate user maintenance and management tasks to business partners while still providing the capability to monitor and audit their activities within their collaborative environments. Partner activities are easily tracked and supervised by line-of-business staff members without depending upon or waiting for costly IT resources.” PRWeb
• xTime Planning … app4mac released xTime Planning, a scheduling tool for Mac OS X, for scheduling people against upcoming projects. Available immediately. app4mac

Productivity

• Play More Often … Doing something you deeply enjoy … playing rather than “working” … is good for releasing stress and helping the soul. Do it. “Playing allows the back of your mind to work through things that need resolution or the next step invented. Meanwhile the front of your mind grins ear to ear.” Productivity Cafe

Knowledge Management

• Day Software Connects with Interwoven … Day Software announced a technical integration between its content management platform and the Interwoven TeamSite product. “The Interwoven TeamSite connector is part of Day’s Content Integration family of products that enable enterprises to access and manage all organizational content through a standardized API. This technology allows the implementation of content access, synchronization and consolidation, leveraging future-proof standardization, even if the content resides in data stores that do not provide a JCR compliant API.” Other connectivity options are under development. Day Software

Other Stuff

• Four Writing Questions … From George Orwell … (1) what am I trying to say?, (2) what words will express it?, (3) what image of idiom will make it clearer?, and (4) is this image fresh enough to have an impact. Notebookism