The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams

• Facilitate conversations. It’s where the interesting things are happening. “Conversations lead to passionate topics of mutual interest. Passionate topics of interest lead to ad-hoc community formation. Community formation leads to collaboration around shared activities, including document collaboration. Community collaboration is the quintessential magic of all things E2.0.” Chuck says that blogging within the corporation is the key ignition point.

The Technology Trends of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams

• PostPath released Version 3.1 of its email server, a Linux alternative to Microsoft Exchange Server. “The PostPath Email and Collaboration Server is a drop-in solution featuring deep interoperability with existing corporate systems. In release 3.1, new management tools, broader mobile support, more powerful web-client features, and additional performance optimization on commodity hardware make the PostPath Server the cost-effective, easy-to-adopt, and easy-to-own server for SMEs.” Available immediately.

Insights on Being Productive and Effective as an Individual

• Set up your desk for productivity … by keeping it tidy, by filing stuff in the right place, by keeping it as a place for work, by having good lighting, and by walking away now and then.
• Gordon outlines 10 ways that Steve Jobs does great presentations, such as (1) set the tone with the main idea, (2) demonstrate enthusiasm, (3) provide an outline (and note the transition points), (4) make numbers meaningful, and more.
• Dave ponders how to divide up his time among different groups of people, and wonders whether blocking out specific chunks of time for each might be the trick.

Other Noteworthy Insights

• Adama offers an extensive review of the iPaq 210.
• Mindjet released a suite of productivity tools for users of MindManager 7.
• Do you want a great business? Be a matchmaker.