Promethean announced the ActivTable, a large touch driven table for educational applications. “The ActivTable is aimed towards primary school and special educational needs learners. At 46 inches, the screen provides one of the largest interactive surface areas on the market and allows up to six students to use […]
When building applications that integrate data from multiple systems, Kapow Software offers an alternative to manual coding or relying on poorly-implemented APIs: “In my books and workshops on collaboration, I talk about the technology being “at most 10% of the equation” when it comes to success. That 10% […]
If you have decided to buy a copy of Collaboration Roadmap, please do so this week. I’m away next week, and orders received between January 13 and 22 will have to wait until I’m back on January 23. If you order today, tomorrow, or the next day, I’ll […]
In mid-April, I’ll be in Atlanta to speak at and participate in the inaugural Share 2012 conference in the US. I will be presenting two sessions: Keynote on April 25, entitled Success with SharePoint: Earning the Right to Seek Executive Support. Many IT departments have installed SharePoint and […]
Over on The Smarter Office blog, I posted Why Collaborate? An (Almost) A to Z. But, I’m missing six of the letters. Do you have any ideas for completing the A to Z? Bonus Points If you live in Western Europe, there are three Plantronics Savi W740 headsets […]
I recently spoke with iRise, a developer of simulation software for software development, about its approach to improving software development. The resulting article has just been published on The BrainYard: “Although I’d been through a classical IT education–discover the requirements, write a functional spec, get the software built, […]
Yesterday I spoke with Bruce Elgort and Julian Robichaux for Episode 146 of the Taking Notes podcast: “On this episode we spoke with Michael Sampson about his new book “Collaboration Roadmap – You’ve got the technology now what?” We talked about: – Why do companies need to develop […]
Research In Motion released version 2 of Mobile Conferencing, an app for simplifying tasks associated with joining and following-up on a conference call: “BlackBerry Mobile Conferencing automates tedious and error prone tasks such as dialing into a conference call that could include multiple main numbers, a conference ID […]
The insightful Nicholas Bate gives (one of many) parting shots for the end of 2011: “There’s an almost delicious fatigue which comes with appropriate physical activity. Five-a-side football after work, chopping wood for the wood-burner high in the Pyrenees, carrying your three-year old high on your shoulders through […]
MobileBeat says that CEO ego is driving the adoption of iPads in the enterprise: “iPads have taken over the boardroom, and corporate CEOs and their egos are to thank for the somewhat surprising trend. At least, that’s the consensus among a panel of cloud computing and enterprise experts […]
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