SmartVault and InsynQ … SmartVault announced a partnership with InsynQ, for document management services for hosted QuickBooks users. “The combination will provide InsynQ subscribers an award-winning on-demand document management solution that is uniquely optimized for QuickBooks, allowing users to easily scan and attach documents, e-mails, and notes directly to their QuickBooks transactions via SmartVault’s patent-pending toolbar. Documents are then stored in SmartVault’s secure SAS_70 Type II datacenter and can be accessed anytime or anywhere from QuickBooks or via SmartVault’s Web portal.” More

Online Meeting Tools … David looks at a range of tools to support online meetings, such as calendar sync, appointment scheduling, and travel alerts. Eg, for appointment scheduling, “How about a situation where you want to arrange a common meeting time for people coming from different companies? A meeting organizer could send out an e-mail notification with a series of possible open times, and ask each participant to check off which of those times work for them. But if you have ever tried to organize this kind of meeting, you know how quickly you can get buried under all the e-mail responses.” More

Team Challenge: Saying the Same Old … Work teams aren’t always better than individuals working alone. “Analyzing how employees exchange information, Jessica Mesmer-Magnus, PhD, of the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, and Leslie DeChurch, of the University of Central Florida, discovered an eye-opening trend: Workplace teams are often unproductive. Why? Well, instead of sharing new, potentially beneficial information, teams tend to discuss subjects they’re already knowledgeable about. And, what’s perhaps most surprising is that harmonious, talkative teams don’t necessarily outperform those who are discordant.” More

Social Media Predictions … Eugene Lee from Socialtext offers three projections for enterprise social media over the next 12 months: “(1) The buying requirements will be around the integration of things and not lots of little point products; (2) The emergence of flagship deployments with ROI metrics that will make people feel more comfortable about investing in these technologies; and (3) Vendor-competitors doing more collaborative conversation because it doesn’t make sense to throw brickbats at each other where there is much to be done around interoperability.” More

OffiSync for Office and Google … OffiSync is a plug-in for Microsoft Office to permit integration with Google Docs. It allows users to save Word documents directly to Google Docs, and to open Word documents for collaboration with others. More, OffiSync. See OffiSync Blog for background.

Other Items
– More on the 2010 Apple Tablet (not a netbook). See also Mogul Monologues.
– How to kill an idea through a focus group.
– Rackspace released an updated edition of its hosted email service, with full mobile device support.
– Plan To Meet is another online meeting scheduling service.
– Some thoughts on the differences between collaboration and competition.
– Scott wants the family calendar to become the organizing filter for everything.