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Michael Sampson

News Updates (May 12, 2009)

CubeTree Launch … CubeTree released its enterprise collaboration suite, with collaboration and social networking capabilities. “CubeTree today announced the availability of its enterprise collaboration suite, the industry’s first free enterprise intranet product built on a powerful social networking platform. In addition to the people-centric features offered on today’s […]

News Updates (May 8, 2009)

NewsGator Social Sites 2.7 … NewsGator released version 2.7 of Social Sites, its social networking add-on for SharePoint. It adds a new idea management tool. “Called Social Sites Ideas, the new solution captures, vets and advances fresh, new employee suggestions for improving business results. It is ideal for […]

Collaboration Anti-Culture: Can It Get Any Worse?

Culture is really important for collaboration technology to work in a group or organization. If the culture isn’t right, “collaboration” as a human process expressed through various communication and collaboration technologies can’t take root. I met with a new client earlier this week to talk about a senior […]

TextFlow: Sharing a Document with Others

This is the fifth post on TextFlow in my research into collaborative document co-authoring products and services. Sharing a Document With Others One of the main reasons for using TextFlow is to gain a better way of working on documents with other people. Here’s how it works: Mark […]

Tungle Needs to Support Conversation Flow Better

I have been using Tungle to schedule meetings with various people during the past couple of weeks (see Introducing Tungle Accelerate). On the whole, it does what it says it will do — makes the scheduling of meetings easier. Particularly for multi-time zone meetings, and where meetings can […]

7 Pillars Analysis of IBM

I was on a call tonight with a client, and among other topics, we talked about the business and user adoption challenge of having the latest and greatest collaboration and communication technology from IBM. He described what he was facing, and it made me recall a couple of […]

News Updates (May 7, 2009)

Open Text Acquires Vignette … Open Text announced a definitive agreement to acquire Vignette, a content management vendor. “Vignette shareholders will receive US $8.00 in cash plus 0.1447 of an Open Text common share for every Vignette common share which equates to approximately US $12.70 at close of […]

More on Dvorak Typing

I last wrote about typing Dvorak back in January. Jill just left a comment that you’ve got to read! “After reading Jared Diamond’s piece on “The Curse of Qwerty”, I decided to give the Dvorak keyboard a shot, as I was suffering from bad RSI in my left […]

TextFlow: Importing a Document

This is the fourth post on TextFlow in my research into collaborative document co-authoring products and services. Importing a Document There is a second way to get a document into TextFlow, and that is to import a Microsoft Word file (.DOC or .DOCX) or .RTF file. In this […]

TextFlow: Creating an Individual Document

This is the third post on TextFlow in my research into collaborative document co-authoring products and services. Creating a New Document Any document sharing or co-authoring episode begins with creating the first draft. Someone — one party in the group — has to click “New” within the tool […]