The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams

• Four Team Disciplines … Ken advocates that great teams embrace four disciplines: (a) sharing information, (b) always seeking help from others, (c) co-invention at the right time, and (d) leveraging of external relationships. Bioteams

The Technology Trends of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams

• Elguji Ideas … Elguji Software announced Elguji Ideas, an idea brainstorming and social ranking system. Available 1Q2008. An early release of the software is powering Idea Jam … “Idea Jam is a site where users of IBM’s Lotus software products can exchange ideas on how to improve Lotus products. Others can help promote and/or demote ideas, as well as, providing feedback through comments. Popular ideas will rise to the top. The Idea Jam, unlike blogs and discussion forums, allows a single place for the Lotus community to share and promote ideas and suggestions on how to improve IBM Lotus software.” Idea Jam officially launches on November 20. Bruce Elgort, Mary Beth Raven
• OCS Launch … Microsoft announced the release of its new line up of unified communications tools, including Office Communications Server 2007, Office Live Meeting, Microsoft Roundtable, and more. Microsoft, with coverage at InformationWeek, eWeek Slide Show
• BeInSync Business … BeInSync announced BeInSync Business Edition, a backup and synchronization solution. “Key features of BeInSync Business include: Central management, online backup (BeInSync’s solution leverages Amazon’s S3 storage infrastructure), file sharing, computer synchronization, remote file access, and premium support.” ConnectIT, BeInSync

Other Noteworthy Insights

• Shared Sketches … Shawn points to a cool shared sketching service. Anecdote