Making Collaboration Work … Cisco released findings from a recent study of collaboration tools and users. “The results from the Cisco collaboration segmentation study suggest that organizations experience the greatest productivity benefits from collaboration when they: (1) Recognize that personal attitudes and organizational culture regarding collaboration are as important as collaboration tools. (2) Begin by introducing collaboration tools to people and groups meeting the characteristics of Enthusiasts and Comfortable Collaborators. These people tend to be managers or supervisors, have held their job position for 3 to 10 years, and are already using Web 2.0 tools at home. (3) Encourage executives to model the desired collaboration practices. (4) Reward collaboration by including it in performance reviews, offering rewards for successful outcomes, or both. (5) Implement formal collaboration processes. Provide the tools, IT support, and training needed to foster increased collaboration.” More

What’s Wrong with SharePoint? … Fred asks, “what’s wrong with SharePoint?” As in, “give me specifics”. “So this evening this led me to ask the question “What is wrong with SharePoint?” No, I do not mean I want a list of every nit picking, annoying little defect – every platform has defects and annoyances. I also do not want to know why SharePoint is note good for everything – no platform is good for everything. I also do not give a crap if your opinion is “it comes from Microsoft therefore it MUST suck” – it that is as deep as your analysis can go, well, you’re a moron. What I want to see from SOMEONE is an intelligent, well thought out description of why SharePoint sucks. Why is it a bad choice for anything? Why should you perform an exorcism on all servers running any version of SharePoint?” More

Secure Document Collaboration in SharePoint … Cryptzone is hosting a webinar on September 23 about secure document collaboration in SharePoint. “A webinar series covering data loss prevention technology that provides first to market secure document management and collaboration within Microsoft SharePoint. Among other topics, we will explore the management of secure groups, Active Directory integration, access rights and authentication and the impact of regulatory compliance. This series is best-suited for IT management, security professionals, SharePoint managers, and others involved with the technical deployment and operations of SharePoint in an enterprise environment.” Registration required. More

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– Alfresco announced a developer program for cloud extensions.