Last month BusinessWeek ran a story called The Secret Cult of Office Smokers. In the article, Joel Stein explored the benefits that smokers get as a consequence of their habit. I’ve heard a few times that smokers are among the best informed in an organization, but Joel takes […]
At the SharePoint Conference earlier this month in New Zealand, one speaker reported on the use of SharePoint at his organization. The organization was using SharePoint for a variety of purposes — the Intranet, collaboration sites, and more — but one thing in particular stood out to me: […]
Gina coaches us to practice defensive scheduling. – Make commitments with yourself first, and put them on your calendar! – Use your calendar to remind you when tasks need to be done. – Make sure you always have your calendar with you. Tuesday 3pm is a good time […]
Litera IDS is a collaborative document co-authoring solution. – Enables multiple people to work on a single document, and combines legal redlines into a single document. – Includes access control capabilities, to limit access to the document. – Integrates with major document management systems. Mainsoft announced a partner […]
The annual Enterprise 2.0 Conference took place in Boston last week. I was heavily involved in the conference in the first three years (2005-2007), but haven’t been able to attend since. Perhaps I should fix that in June 2011. Anyway, here’s what stood out to me from afar […]
I didn’t know about this until 30 minutes ago, when Patrick told me! Apparently Steve Smith and the Combined Knowledge team made a copy of Seamless Teamwork a bonus for the first 80 registrants to the April SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference in London. Very cool! Thanks Steve and […]
Earlier today, the Intranet Benchmarking Forum hosted a 90-minute webinar on SharePoint 2010 for Intranets. Martin White from Intranet Focus in the United Kingdom was the lead presenter, and I was one of the panelists. The two other panelists were Richard Harbridge and Jed Cawthorne, and the call […]
Last year Cisco started talking about a forthcoming product for the enterprise market: Cisco “Enterprise Collaboration Platform”. It was a perfectly descriptive name, albeit not particularly attention grabbing. In the past few weeks, Cisco has peeled back some of the layers around the forthcoming platform, and has given […]
The 2010 edition of the New Zealand SharePoint Conference is a wrap. It was a second very good day … I am so pleased I came. The conference drew about 300-350 people, and there were … (my guess) … at least 200 for the closing panel discussion at […]
I attended a couple of case study sessions today at the New Zealand SharePoint Conference 2010, where the respective people were talking about their internal use of SharePoint. In both cases, SharePoint was being used to power collaboration sites (team sites, project sites), and in both cases SharePoint […]
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