Documents to Go for iPhone … DataViz announced that Documents To Go is now available via the Apple App Store, for iPhone and iPod Touch users. “For the mobile professional or home user who needs to use Word documents on iPhone or iPod touch, Documents To Go is the ideal solution. Documents To Go supports many advanced viewing and editing features, including touch navigation, cut/copy/paste, text selection, predictive text entry, bulleted and numbered lists, bold, italics, underline, embedded pictures, tables, word count, password-protected files and the ability to edit in landscape view. Customers can edit their Word documents with confidence thanks to DataViz’s acclaimed InTact Technology which ensures that all original file formatting is retained once a file has been edited and forwarded on.” Available immediately. More

SharePoint 2007 Governance Course … Chris released a two-day governance course for SharePoint 2007. “Governance seems to come up in spurts around the community. This course has been around for a while and really drives a lot of the issues with implementing SharePoint 2007 and addresses issues that you will run into 2 years down the road with your SharePoint 2007 install. Not a course for Developers or End Users, it is targeted at IT Manager and CIO/CTO level individuals.” More, Course Outline

Collaboration Can Equal Bad … Not all collaborations are worthwhile or good for the firm, according to research from INSEAD. “When a company has a highly competitive culture like Sony’s, attempts to encourage collaboration often backfire, wasting workers’ valuable time. But projects in a company with a cut-throat culture is not the only time collaboration ends up causing more harm than good, according to Hansen. He also notes that when collaboration is over-valued, companies risk rewarding working together as an end in itself and drifting away from a tough evaluation of the actual value of the final products of these group efforts. So how do you collaborate right? Hansen has three tips: (1) Be selective about projects earmarked for collaboration, (2) Identify the barriers to collaboration, and (3) Tailor the management interventions to those barriers after diagnosing what they are.” More

Adobe Acrobat.com for Fee … Adobe released two new paid services on Acrobat.com. “Adobe made a big push into the increasingly competitive online document collaboration market Monday, with two new subscription services geared for businesses. The company said that businesses that paid fees would now be able to hold online meetings for additional participants and convert more documents to PDFs via Acrobat.com, in addition to continuing to be able to access Adobe’s free online word processing service. Perhaps most notably, in its announcement, Adobe said that it would soon be launching additional online tools, including an online spreadsheet application.” More
– ZDNet, a Linux version of Acrobat.com is planned.

Azure Plans Next Month … Microsoft will be releasing additional details about the Azure platform next month. “Microsoft plans to announce next month more of the business details behind its Windows Azure operating system. The software maker unveiled the cloud-based operating system at a developer conference last year. It has said that some of the services, currently in free testing, will be released in final form this year. The company has said that it will run Azure applications in its data centers and will charge users based on the computing resources they need. In an interview on Monday, Corporate Vice President Allison Watson said that the company will get concrete about the financial details and say how partners can help sell Azure at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference which runs July 13-16 in New Orleans.” More

SharePoint and Web Governance … Lisa argues that SharePoint doesn’t offer web governance, and outlines the three components that would be required. “Last week I attended a conference keynote session where Microsoft’s Tricia Bush (Group Product Manager, SharePoint) asserted that SharePoint was helping to provide Web governance with its workflow services. Now, I’ve seen a lot of SharePoint implementations and I think and dream about Web Governance constantly, so I found this comment disturbing. Software vendors say interesting things about their products all the time. But because of the viral-like quality of SharePoint implementations, I thought it was worth stating clearly that SharePoint does not provide Web Governance.” More

Other Items
– Mary wonders whether instant messaging is a useful workplace tool.
– The iPhone 3G S still lacks enterprise IT capabilities, according to a Gartner analyst.