IBM on Collaboration and Productivity … IBM announced a new set of offerings to help clients build collaborative and connected business environments. “Another leading component of this initiative is a set of IBM collaboration offerings that derive collective intelligence through crowd-sourcing and social dynamics. These include new social networking tools for the enterprise and secure, cloud-based collaboration that joins together networks of companies as if they were a single organization. IBM is also helping business people solve their own daily challenges through new mashup software and delivering new solutions for unified communications, mobile collaboration and portal communities. IBM is announcing a new set of professional services focused on collaboration and mobility. These services, which reflect the new reality of an increasingly social and mobile workforce, help connect people, processes and information and enable collaboration across organizations and with clients and partners. They include IBM Smart Business Desktop on the IBM Cloud, IBM Mobile Enterprise Services for Managed Blackberry, and IBM Converged Communications Services. ” More

Colligo Webinar on Email Attachments and SharePoint … Colligo is hosting a webinar on developing an email attachment solution in SharePoint; it’s on September 30. “According to industry analysts, attachments make up as much as 90% of all data stored in Microsoft Exchange, often clogging mailboxes with redundant and out-of-date information. Moving attachments to a content management platform such as Microsoft SharePoint provides the ability to tag, search, share and single instance files while controlling access and managing versions. Despite these benefits, user adoption can be low because of the cumbersome process required to save, tag, and link to SharePoint through the Microsoft Outlook interface. Attend this practical “How To” webinar to learn how you can overcome objections and develop an effective email attachment management solution in SharePoint. Join Microsoft MVP Eric Legault as he shares tips and tricks to help your organization leverage your investment in SharePoint today.” Registration required. More

TimeBridge Update … TimeBridge updated its meetings service, with new capabilities for meeting planning, including a new iPhone application. “TimeBridge is also announcing today a new application for the iPhone. TimeBridge for iPhone allows users to more effectively manage their meetings on-the-go with access to key TimeBridge features including availability sharing, viewing the meeting agenda and clocking meeting progress, one-touch access to conference calls, running late notifications and fetching late attendees with SMS.” More

Coveo Email Search … Coveo announced an upgrade to its email search capabilities, allowing for cross-organizational discovery and tagging of email items. “The Coveo Enterprise Email Search package, combining elements of the Coveo Enterprise Search 6.0 platform, enables knowledge continuity and sharing, and reduces risk by enabling customers to discover the previously undiscoverable – email content residing within PST files on the desktops and laptops of all employees combined with all email archive content. Coveo Enterprise Email Search provides both cross-enterprise email search and discovery, and permission- or rules-based access for employees to search the combined email of their workgroups, former colleagues and other specific groups of email within the organization. Coveo’s permissioning and rules are self-service for system administrators through the intuitive Coveo Enterprise Search Admin Dashboard. The access permissions and rules reside within the content, making security seamless, instant, and constant. The Coveo Enterprise Email Search package may be used with Coveo Mobile Access, providing real-time, faceted access for employees in the field, via their smartphones.” More

Get Up and Talk … Good reminder about needing an effective agreement about how to use email and BlackBerries. “In addition to highlighting the importance of simple, good manners, companies should slow the pace and stop inter-office email to get people talking face-to-face, Stanford says. “Emails and Blackberries are genius devices, but when you get to the point when people feel they have to respond to everything, all the time, you lose those precious minutes of thinking that you get when you actually get up from your seat and walk over to the other person to talk. Those calming minutes,” he said.” More

Other Items
– Challenges in the face-to-face meetings business, for hotel operators and meeting planners.
– Box.net released OpenBox Mobile, an API to integrating Box.net with the iPhone. Support for other platforms is expected.
– Five reasons to stop using email, and what to do instead.
– The key to success with Enterprise 2.0: do the previously impossible.
– Twitter released a new terms of service.
– Don’t forget to read Nicholas Bate (on productivity and other good stuff).