The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams

• Gartner on Collaboration … By 2009, 60% of IT collaboration projects will be about connecting with external entities.

The Technology Trends of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams

• SharePoint Conference 2008 … Given that Microsoft’s SharePoint conference in March is a technical one, SharePoint Solutions have taken up the challenge and are hosting a three day non-technical conference on SharePoint. Good move!!! ““The three-day SharePoint Information Worker Conference 2008 is designed specifically for business, web and application professionals who need to stay on the leading edge of MOSS 2007 and WSS business applications,” said Jeff Cate, founder and president of SharePoint Solutions. The three-day SharePoint Information Worker Conference 2008 is designed specifically for business, web and application professionals who need to stay on the leading edge of MOSS 2007 and WSS business applications. “If you’re not part of your company’s IT department but you use SharePoint and the Microsoft Office System to solve business problems, this conference will provide you with the knowledge you need to work with maximum efficiency. And, if you are in IT, but need a functional and business usage understanding about SharePoint, this conference is an excellent choice as well,” he added. ” PRWeb
• SharePoint = Threat … Brian outlined some concerns about the threat of SharePoint to open source software. “What Brian did say about Sharepoint is potentially more troubling. Has the open-source community effectively given away a big chunk of the future’s software stack to Microsoft? And has it effectively ceded the role of data aggregation to Sharepoint? The open-source world has superior wikis like Socialtext and MindTouch to Microsoft’s internal wiki, but Microsoft’s half-baked bundled suite is likely to win out unless the open-source world doesn’t get together to present a viable open-source competitor.” CNET Blogs
• HiveLive … HiveLive released its social networking service for enterprise customers. “HiveLive’s LiveConnect Community Platform is designed so users can quickly create Hives by assembling pre-built application modules using just mouse clicks. Communities can be built around people, relationships and shared information from document files to YouTube videos. The Hive, for which the company is seeking a patent, is the glue that holds together the social networking tools, community and the information it shares or creates.” PC World
• On Interwoven 8.3 … Doug reports on upcoming changes in Interwoven 8.3, due next month. Better knowledge management and search capabilities are high on the list. “The first great change is Interwoven’s goal to give the user a single textbox to search. (Just like Google.) In giving the user one box to search, Interwoven combines that across all (or at least many) of the metadata fields.” KM Space
• Corporate Email on the iPhone … Visto extended its support for retrieving corporate email on the iPhone to European customers. “Using Visto Mobile, iPhone users will be able to securely and easily access push corporate email without downloading any additional software to the iPhone or requiring any changes to security policies or corporate firewall settings.” webitpr
• Mundu IM – iPhone Edition … Geodesic Information Systems released an iPhone edition of Mundu IM, an instant messaging client. “ With Mundu IM – iPhone Edition, iPhone users will have access to seamless chat across leading IM services MSN, Yahoo, Google Talk and AIM. Apart from simultaneous login to multiple IM services and managing online presence with custom status messages, Mundu IM has innovative features like search and remove buddies, send smilies and quick texts as well as the ability to remember username and passwords.” Available immediately. prnewswire

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Insights on Being Productive and Effective as an Individual

• Action vs Waiting For … Kelly outlines the difference between action items and waiting fors, and a possible strategy for dealing with them. “ … create two email folders called @Action and @Waiting For and move your emails into either of those two folders. When you’re looking for something to do, all of your actionable emails are already in the @Action folder. When you need to look for what you’re waiting on, pop over to the @Waiting For folder.” Kelly Forrester

Other Noteworthy Insights
Leopard spanks Vista. Computerworld says so.