Team Collaboration

• McAfee vs. Davenport … Andrew McAfee and Tom Davenport will be debating on Enterprise 2.0 and its impact in Boston on Monday June 18, at 10am. Unfortunately I’ll be teaching a tutorial at the time. BSG, Andrew McAfee
• Sametime 7.5.1 Free Trial … IBM introduced a 90-day free trial of Sametime 7.5.1, offering IM, Web conferencing, point-to-point video capabilities, mobile device support, and VoIP chat. Available immediately. MarketWire
• Real-Time Collaboration for Lawyers … Brett argues that it’s time for lawyers to stop email files around or using an extranet site for file sharing, and instead to start using a real-time screen sharing / joint authoring / editing tool for document review. “The “sharing my screen” is the key feature of real-time collaboration. When you draft a document and need someone else to look it over, you can simply call them on the phone and invite them to your GoToMeeting session. Your team can read through the document on their computer screens and make changes in real time. If you don’t understand a suggestion someone is making, you can simply hand over control of the mouse and keyboard to that person and they can make the changes themselves — right on your computer. You don’t have to wait for them to e-mail a document back. The changes are made right in front of you on your own computer.” Law.com
• SharePoint Training … ThoughtBridge introduced ThoughtBridge University, a specialized training program for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007. The training will be provided onsite. TechLinks
• Burton Group/NewsGator Webinar … Mike Gotta from the Burton Group and Greg Reinacker from NewsGator are co-presenting a Webinar on Wednesday June 13, 2007, on RSS in the enterprise. The title is “RSS as a Foundation for Enterprise 2.0 Strategy”. Registration required. NewsGator

Mobility

• iPhone to Flop? … Jim argues that the Apple iPhone will flounder after an initial run of success, for a number of reasons: (1) no buttons or keys, (2) slow email and messaging, (3) slow Internet, (4) high price, and (5) poor battery life. Apparently you can’t do instant messaging either. PC Magazine
• New Treo’s Coming? … A couple of leaked photos of a future Palm Treo running the Standard version of Windows Mobile. The layout of the device has changed. Palm Infocenter

Productivity

• Say “No” … Say no to the things that you shouldn’t do. You’ll be more effective and productive if you do. Chris has some suggestions on how to make this easier: keep instant messaging off, cut down on hobbies, stop doing repetitive tasks and busy work, and maybe stop saying “yes” to every request from friends. Chris Brogan
• todoMatrix for BlackBerry … REX Wireless offer todoMatrix, a replacement for the tasks application on a BlackBerry. “todoMatrix brings world-class to-do / tasks management to the RIM platform. Our customers can manage unlimited projects and sub-projects, keep track of who assignments were given to and when, stay on top of deadlines with highly-flexible reminder and snooze alert functions, and sort tasks by a wide-variety of fields, priorities, and dates. For Windows only. REXwireless

Other Stuff

• Eric’s Got an X61 Tablet … Does this mean he’ll write about X1 Search now? 😉 Eric Mack