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Michael Sampson

Photos from Denmark

I did a lot of walking yesterday in Denmark (on Sunday) — about 15 kms. Here’s a few photos from my day out … with some especially for my children back home in New Zealand (hi y’all!) … Photos from Denmark February 28 View more presentations from Michael […]

News Updates (February 26, 2010)

Central Desktop 2.0 … Central Desktop released a major update to its hosted collaboration service, with a revised UI, an online file viewer, improved wiki navigaton, and more. “In the crowded collaboration software market, Central Desktop remains the only full-featured SaaS collaboration solution designed specifically for the mid-market […]

News Updates (February 25, 2010)

TimeBridge meetwith.me … TimeBridge released a new service to simplify meeting scheduling. “MeetWith.Me works great for one-on-one meetings, and acts like a public calendar, but hides private details. This personalized URL lets colleagues and friends see busy and available time-blocks on users’ schedules so they know when the […]

Where in the world is Michael?

I leave for Europe tomorrow. It’s an action-packed two weeks of talking, listening, discussing, delivering, and learning. Basically: – I’m in Denmark next week, for the IntraTeam Event 2010. I’m giving two sessions: a pre-conference workshop on User Adoption Strategies, and a conference keynote on Evaluating Collaboration Tools. […]

News Updates (February 22, 2010)

NewsGator for iPhone and iPad … NewsGator released two new mobile clients for its add-on to SharePoint, for the iPhone and iPad. “The iPhone client, and a companion client for the soon-to-be-released iPad, provide on-the-road users with direct access to their enterprise social computing environments without the need […]

Goodbye Australia

Four days in Australia for a variety of engagements are now done … and I’m at Melbourne International Airport awaiting my flight back to New Zealand. – On Monday night, I spoke about User Adoption Strategies for Collaboration Tools at Melbourne KMLF. I had a great time, and […]

News Updates (February 18, 2010)

Start Chattering … Salesforce introduced an invite-only beta for Chatter, its forthcoming collaboration service. “Chatter, which Salesforce unveiled at its Dreamforce conference in November, is essentially a social networking system for businesses to use within their organizations. It’s slated to be generally available sometime this year …. Chatter […]

News Updates (February 15, 2010)

Microsoft After RIM … Is Microsoft about to make an acquisition of RIM? “Arguments for a possible acquisition, in McKechnie’s opinion, include RIM’s “dominant position in the enterprise, which MSFT could [make use of] to [improve] its Exchange business and add up to [about] $5 billion in recurring […]