Team Collaboration

• Employees Want More Virtual Meetings … UK employees would be more than happy to shift some of their meetings to virtual ones, thus eliminating some travel from their schedules. “In fact, though employees say they would readily adopt greener remote working practices, they are being stopped from doing so by the attitude of their employers. More than three quarters of the workers polled by Interwise said they travelled to up to three meetings per week, with more than half complaining that their company had not done anything to try to cut back on travel for meetings.” Management Issues
• Five Lessons of Collaboration … From Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia … (1) you need mechanisms in place for effective collaboration, (2) online identity is important, (3) a successful collaboration requires a shared vision, (4) organizations are becoming flatter, and (5) speed is incredibly important. CIO
• Old Reuters Messaging Clients End-of-Lifed … Reuters announced that versions 3.x, 4.x and 5.x of the Reuters Messaging client and related components will be unable to access the Reuters Messaging service from January 1, 2008. Version 6.0 and beyond will be required. Reuters
• CalConnect Roundtable X … CalConnect is holding its next Roundtable and Interoperability Test Event in Cambridge MA in September 2007, hosted by MIT. Registration required. CalConnect. There’s also a special for-free one-day workshop on vCard and what to do about it.

Mobility

• RIM on iPhone … RIM Co-CEO says he’s “not losing sleep” over the iPhone. He’s also critical of Apple’s push to wrest control away from the carriers. TheStar
• Trillian for iPhone … Cerulean Studios is porting its multi-headed IM client, Trillian Astra, to the Mac and iPhone platforms. It is currently available in Alpha. Coolest Gadgets

Productivity

• Unstick a Project … Working on a “dreaded project” … or make that, should you be working on a dreaded project. Eight steps to overcome the dread: (1) define what’s bothering you, (2) set a clear final outcome, (3) set aside half a day to make progress, (4) unplug from distractions, (5) focus on one step, (6) singletask, (7) reward yourself for singletask completion, and (8) define the next step. FreelanceSwitch
• What’s Most Important? … The iPolipo blog, “Time Matters”, has the top time-related question for a number of people. Shomit Ghose’s question is what’s most important?, Tony Clark’s is what’s the natural rhythm of my internal clock and how can I match my daily activities to that clock for optimal flow, performance and rest?. There are many more. Good stuff.