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Michael Sampson

News Updates (January 26, 2010)

TimeBridge Business Plus … TimeBridge added a new business plan to its meeting scheduling service. “With these packages, TimeBridge offers an automatically generated private virtual conference room for small businesses, allowing them to instantly schedule and connect over phone and web conferencing systems with a single click. By […]

News Updates (January 25, 2010)

Gartner: New IT Jobs … Gartner outlined four new IT jobs to become fashionable: legal and IT hybrids, digital archivists, business information managers, and enterprise information architects. On group 3, “There will be an increasing trend to combine business and information management expertise in a single role, carried […]

News Updates (January 22, 2010)

Don’t Forget to Talk!! … Globally distributed teams need to talk; not just swap emails and the like. “The 675 Intel employees included in the study worked in 53 locations in 22 countries. They completed an online survey about their project teams, reporting how closely they worked with […]

Peter and the Elephant

In my email today … from Bruce … In 1986, Peter Davies was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Northwestern University. On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air. The elephant seemed distressed, so […]

News Updates (January 21, 2010)

Yuuguu Corporate … Yuuguu launched a corporate edition of its web conferencing and online collaboration platform. “Yuuguu Corporate provides advanced branding options by allowing users to fully embed a web conferencing entry page into the organisation’s website, so steering participants to the organisation’s website rather than a web […]

News Updates (January 20, 2010)

Lots of news around Lotus … a consequence of the Lotusphere 2010 conference this week … Mainsoft Integrating Notes and SharePoint 2010 … Mainsoft demo’d the integrating between Lotus Notes and SharePoint 2010. “The software brings the SharePoint 2010-based professional network into the Lotus Notes email client, with […]

Lotusphere 2010: Notes from Day 1

Day 1 of IBM annual Lotusphere conference was today, in Orlando. Here’s what I’ve seen announced or discussed during the day. And no, I’m not in attendance. Announcements and Discussion Points From IBM’s press release about Project Vulcan: – Project Vulcan is IBM’s new blueprint for the future […]