The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams

• Do you know what motivates the various members on a virtual team? Leading Virtually has some ideas.

The Technology Trends of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams

• AIIM is hosting a webinar on February 13 entitled Collaborate to Compete … “Collaboration tools make that possible. This webinar will discuss the role of collaboration in the context of ECM 2.0 and how search, taxonomy, workflow, and ECM come together to enable document-based collaboration that means faster time to market.“
• Ryan at Syrinx has started a series of blog posts to outline the capabilities of SharePoint 2007. The reason is to give prospective users a better understanding of what’s available: “As I’ve mentioned in previous postings, many organizations that purchase SharePoint have considerable difficulty determining and defining how best to use the platform. In many ways SharePoint’s versatility can often be its biggest weakness. “
• The calendar form in Notes 8.0.1 allows meeting organizers to include conference call information in a meeting request; the details are stored as a preference setting, making it easy to recall.
• Mike thinks that NewsGator is a prime acquisition target for Microsoft, and would go a long way to improve its RSS capabiliities.
• Windows Meeting Space is one of the best features in Vista, so says Stephen, for ad hoc collaboration on a peer-to-peer wireless network.
• Josh has installed the Xobni Outlook Plug-in, and finds it highly functional as an add-on. “You have all the people you contact the most right up front. The search capabilities alone are enough to drop your sandwich, slap your melon and gape in awe. In one pane you have email stats with info on your contact and email. On another pane you can organize your appointments, to-do’s and see how long it’s been since you contacted (avoided) someone.“

Insights on Being Productive and Effective as an Individual

• You can’t learn time management, but you can practice it. Jim shares 5 tips … (a) study, (b) set clear goals, (c) set time management goals, (d) implement the habits of success, and (e) be persistent.
• Want to get more work done? Set clear deadlines.
• As an exercise for a client, Matt attempts a simplification of the GTD approach and concludes that it can’t be done. One of the main ideas in his test system is the greater use of the calendar for scheduling next actions.