Industry Updates

Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Report (December 17, 2007)

The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams

  • 10 tips to help employees collaborate: (1) choose the right tools, (2) communicate enough, but not too much, and more. CIO

The Technology Trends of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams

  • Prism and Fluid are new tools that can turn Web applications into pseudo-desktop applications. jkontherun
  • ActionThis released an update to its hosted action management service. ActionThis
  • ActionThis released its client for Outlook 2003. ActionThis
  • Microsoft on Office Communications Server: more good stuff to come. InformationWeek
  • Apple is working to improve the iPhone in its support of Microsoft Exchange. AppleInsider
  • Telecom New Zealand has finally given in, and is getting the BlackBerry. Hell’s frozen over. NZHerald
  • 2008 is the year for formal collaboration technology strategies, according to Forrester. “Of 1,017 IT decision makers in North America and Europe surveyed, 15 percent identified implementing a collaboration strategy as a “critical priority” and 34 percent deemed it a “priority.” A third, 33 percent, said collaboration “was not a priority” while 17 percent it was “not on our agenda” altogether.CIO
  • “We got $12 million in funding”. NewsGator
  • Version 2.0 of Zoho Show is out. Zoho
  • JetBlue is using SharePoint (Portal Server, though) for document management and regulatory compliance. Peter Ward
  • Peter, the CEO of Collanos, is now also the COO of beteo, another Swiss startup. Both companies will remain separate entities. Collanos

Insights on Being Productive and Effective as an Individual

  • How you practice is how you should play. Jason Womack
  • Declutter your mind … with 15 ideas on how to do so. ZenHabits

Other Noteworthy Insights

  • Lenovo has started using forum software to encourage the sharing of technical concerns and fixes among users. Churbuck
  • Thanks to the Web, there is life after Microsoft Word. NYTimes
  • There’s too much hype in the technology market. Tom Davenport

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