Culture Change … With the economy facing some major issues, Chuck wonders whether internal social media tools will get more attention as a way of enabling groups to work together. “Besides, even if we can afford a nice event in a nice venue, who can afford to attend? Randy (who runs our external community group) tells me his phone is ringing off the hook. All sorts of internal groups are coming out of the woodwork, interested in the idea of a near-zero-cost mechanism for achieving their marketing and engagement goals outside the company. The good news? As a result, we’re accelerating change.” More

Growing SharePoint Talent … Pointers from Arpan about developing talented SharePoint people inside your organization. The current lack of skilled SharePoint people is causing some big problems for organizations wanting to embrace the platform. More

Lotus Notes Hosted … IBM announced its Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging service, enabling organizations to run Notes on the desktop against Domino Servers hosted by IBM. Requires a minimum of 1000 mailboxes. More

SharePoint Gaps … Craig addresses how to deal with gaps in SharePoint. “Too many SharePoint implementations wind up causing pain because a promising demo or proof of concept led planners to underestimate the difficulty of the full solution. The same implementation might have been considered a roaring success if time and resources were understood upfront and did not follow a winding path with multiple failures before completion. If you’re in charge of an enterprise-wide SharePoint plan or a specific SharePoint site, you don’t care if a gap in SharePoint is intentional or not. The task for you is to quickly assess what users will need from SharePoint and to set expectations up front that SharePoint out of the box may not get them there.” More

ShowDocument … ShowDocument released its real-time co-editing service. “If you’re in need of a quick and simple way to share a document with a few other people at the same time, worth checking out is ShowDocument. It works with most major file types including PDFs, Word docs, PowerPoint presentations, and text files, and displays them in a simple Flash-based viewer and editor. Once you’ve uploaded any file up to 2MB in size, you can mark it up with a pen and highlighter tool, along with a text box tool and eraser. There’s also a small chat box to discuss changes, and everyone’s cursor is tracked as it moves around.” More

Tablet PC Failure … An academic paper reviewing the rise and fall of the Tablet computer, in 23 pages! More (PDF)