The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams

• Dealing with Baddies … Ideas for dealing with rude or unprofessional coworkers … mainly when you can be there in person to do something about it. How do we handle this in the virtual world? ConnectIT

The Technology Trends of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams

• Colligo Webinar … Colligo is hosting a free Webinar entitled “SharePoint – from Portals to Offline Knowledge Management – a Crowe Chizek Case Study”. “ … learn how Crowe Chizek and Company LLC, one of the top 10 U.S. accounting firms, has deployed SharePoint for multiple business applications, while providing their mobile professionals with a consistent user experience both online and offline. The firm started with portals, but is today using SharePoint for project management, client extranets, knowledge management, team sites, and more. You’ll discover proven applications for SharePoint that improve professional productivity, both online and offline.” Registration required. Colligo
• DocSyncer … DocSyncer announced its namesake service, for automatically synchronizing local documents with Google Docs. “It uploads all of your Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) from your desktop to Google Docs and then keeps them in sync. Whenever you make a change on your desktop, the change is automatically reflected in the corresponding file on Google Docs, and on DocSyncer.com. The service will require a small software download, which at first will only work on Windows computers (a Mac version is coming). But you will be able to sync from more than one computer—up to Google Doc’s current limit of 5,000 documents.” Beta coming. TechCrunch
• Nuxeo Enterprise Platform 5.1 … Nuxeo released Version 5.1 of its enterprise content management platform. “The Nuxeo software is based on the Nuxeo Service Platform (SP), a service platform designed specifically for ECM that manages tasks like storage, indexing, search, security, workflow, archiving and much more. Application developers can access these services by embedding the platform core in their Java applications or through distributed technologies typically found within an SOA development such as Java EE remoting, or SOAP and REST Web Services.” Nuxeo
• SharePoint and NewsGator … NewsGator released NewsGator Social Sites for SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0. “NewsGator Social Sites is a collection of site templates, profiles, Web parts and middleware that will enhance the social computing capabilities of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.” Microsoft, NewsGator, Read/Write Web
• SharePoint and Atlassian … Microsoft and Atlassian announced an integration between SharePoint and Confluence. “Atlassian announced that a new set of plug-ins, available today, enables bidirectional information flow between both collaboration platforms.” Dennis writes “The ability to connect between Sharepoint and Atlassian’s Confluence is real, providing single sign-on, search, content sharing and linking between the two applications.” Microsoft, Atlassian, Read/Write Web

Insights on Being Productive and Effective as an Individual

• Tim on Planning … Step-by-step plans are attractive, but often not possible. “I’m not saying to completely avoid that type of methodology. I’ve been working with step-by-step plans for most of my adult life, although it seems like I’m constantly changing the order of the steps. I do, however, think it’s best to recognize that planning is a constant process, not something you start at the beginning and work through to the end.” msnbc

Other Noteworthy Insights

• Palm Treo 500v in Australia … “Palm, Inc. has announced the Palm Treo 500v smartphone on the Vodafone network in Australia. The new smartphone combines multiple forms of communication and multimedia capabilities with high-speed 3G mobile Internet access.” Is NZ next? Geekzone