Box.net released an updated version of iPad app, allowing users to access and collaborate on documents stored on Box.net: “Today, Box released a version of its iPad enterprise app that “balances both the needs of the users and the needs of IT,” says Aaron Levie, co-founder and CEO […]
Billy tweeted earlier today: “Collaboration is not document-centric. It is information centric & human oriented. Make sure your collaboration systems get this.“ Let’s think about this for a moment. Collaboration is about “people working with other people towards a common outcome.” So I agree with Billy on the […]
3D printers allow the “printing” of 3 dimensional objects – surprising right? While my boys would love to get one, the problem – as Eric puts it – was the $100,000 price tag. Apparently, those days are fast going: “MakerBot is an affordable, open source 3D printer. It […]
Increase Visibility, an online marketing services firm, is using Central Desktop to support team communication and client tracking. A case study on the Central Desktop web site says: “With more than 300 clients, five company divisions and 15 teams, Increase Visibility needed a central hub to house all […]
My home-built system for tracking projects and actions started to die … the technology was quitting multiple times throughout the day, and it was just not working. Can you see the smoke coming out of my ears!! I did a bit of exploration and settled on using Things […]
I believe people need better calendaring capabilities for meeting scheduling – see Pillar 4 of the 7 Pillars, plus Calendaring: Are We There Yet? So it is good news that Microsoft is enabling better calendaring in Exchange, meaning that the scheduling of meetings between people in different organizations […]
Tony talks about the dysfunctional nature of many meetings in organizations, and proposes that the answer is to have “conversations” instead. “The best way to energize thinking is to hold conversations rather than meetings. In our personal lives, we are used to talking openly with one another, but […]
Laura Stack writes a great newsletter, not to mention her excellent books. A recent article talked about executive time management, and included this advice: “Working too many hours is demonstrably counterproductive, because it results in decreased productivity. Studies have repeatedly shown that a 60-hour work week results, on […]
A contact asked me this question a few days ago: “I’ve seen many implementations where people do not enable MySites. I think this is because they perceive them as being some sort of risk, however they are sacrificing the unique MySite capabilities in doing so. What we’ve done […]
I think it’s very exciting for a vendor and their user community when they get to the point of putting on an in-person conference. Central Desktop have announced today its first ever user conference – coming up in September 2011. I can’t attend due to other commitments, but […]
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