Team Collaboration

• Office 2.0 … The Office 2.0 Conference is happening September 5-7, 2007 in San Francisco CA. “The Office 2.0 Conference is a collective experiment organized every year in San Francisco, CA and aimed at discovering the future of online productivity & collaboration. It is a unique gathering of visionaries, thought leaders, and customers using innovative online services for getting things done at the office, at home, and on the go.” I’d love to be there, but there’s no way. Office 2.0 Conference
• Kodak Insite Creative Workflow System 3.0 … Kodak released Version 3.0 of its Insite Creative Workflow System, a project-based workspace for collaboration and content creation by creative professionals and print providers. New features: shared access to project files, email notifications, task-based workflows, and more. Available immediately. eWeek
• 10 New Things in SharePoint 2007 … Tiffany outlines 10 new capabilities in SharePoint 2007 that “will help you plead the business case for this technology“: (1) search enhancements, (2) checking out documents to a local copy, (3) workflow, (7) breadcrumb trail, and (9) a mobile view, among others. TechRepublic

Mobility

• New Treos? … Palm may be working on up to 4 new Treo devices, for release this year and next. PalmInfoCenter
• Telenor Sweden with Mobile IM … Telenor Sweden introduced a mobile instant messaging solution, powered by OZ Communications, for access to Windows Live IM via mobile devices. BusinessWire
• Palm Foleo Review … Erik reviews the forthcoming Palm Foleo, and concludes that “the $600 not-quite-a-laptop device is small and light and might be of interest for some Treo-using mobile professionals, but most people would likely be much better served by a regular notebook.” PCWorld

Productivity

• Distractions … When you are supposed to be concentrating on a project or task, what makes you distracted? And how do you overcome it? Michael Stelzner
• Efficiency Isn’t Everything … Good reminder from Jimmy that efficiency isn’t the be-all-and-end-all. You have to first of all be working on the right things, and not become overextended. O’Reilly Radar (hat tip, Jason)
• Failure is … What? … Failure is not bad, unless you stop doing what you were doing when you should have kept on going. Failure is an opportunity to learn, to push boundaries, to grow. “Staying in the safe zone (i.e. where failure never happens) ensures you won’t be criticized, but you’ll probably never impress either. And I’m not just talking about other people. Don’t you want to impress yourself? Don’t you want to stand at the top of the mountain and take it all in? If so, you have to be willing to endure failure and the people who won’t shut up about it. These obstacles will be there. We’ve known this all along. But the obstacles make us better, more accomplished and eventually more successful.” PersistenceUnlimited