Nancy at Guided Insights shares 10 ways to disengage your virtual team. The first two are: “1. Allocate tasks that encourage independence . The less dependent people are on others, the more likely they’ll be to get their work done on time. Structure assignments so people can complete […]
I wrote about eBeam a few months back, and its role in enabling whiteboard capture for storage and collaborative sharing. In the video above, Robert Scoble gets a demo from Rafi and Jody from Luidia, the makers of eBeam.
Atlassian announced some of the upcoming features in the next version of Confluence, its enterprise wiki and collaboration tool. New capabilities include: – a new and simpler Wiki editor, including better macro capabilities. – auto-formatting of wiki markup, to speed writing and editing. – @mentions (like in Twitter […]
The BrainYard has published my article on effective meetings and the promise of SmartDraw: “If you and I were sitting down to coffee and I asked you (between sips of my extra-hot flat white) to explain something to me related to your work, how quickly would you give […]
Last year I really enjoyed attending and speaking at Share 2010, the SharePoint conference for business users. This year the conference is happening again, and I’m heading back to Sydney to participate. The conference is on November 28-30, and I will be running a one-day post-conference workshop on […]
Next month I will be presenting a seminar on The Equation of Collaboration in Sydney and Melbourne in conjunction with Professional Advantage. I will be talking about the roadmap to collaboration at work and the six faces of value from collaboration, among other topics. Dates: – Sydney, Tuesday […]
A couple of weeks ago, The BrainYard posted an article I wrote entitled Get Collaborators to ‘Touch and Feel’ Unstructured Data: “I don’t want to see your face!” doesn’t sound like the most collaborative way to talk to someone, but it just might be. If you’re stuck in […]
Today marks the end of my two weeks of parental leave for Joshua, and thus my first day back in the office. I’ve had a super-busy couple of weeks – helping Katrina with Joshua, helping the children with home schooling, and running a household. And mixed in there, […]
After a midnight drive into the hospital with Katrina, Joshua Marc Sampson joined our family just after 1am on Monday August 8. Weighing in at 10 lb 7, he was a big baby, but as we've previously had two children weighing 11 lb 2, he's not the heaviest. […]
Patti wrote (in 2001) about the use of VAX Notes at Digital Equipment: Imagine. You work in a global high-tech company with more than 100,000 people. Research and product development organisations are distributed around the world, as are the sales, marketing, and technical support groups that interface with […]
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