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Michael Sampson

Applying GTD at Home

I’ve been a devotee of David Allen’s GTD approach to making things happen since the late 1990s, but mainly for my professional work. I have defined some projects and next actions on the personal and home front, but it hasn’t been until this Christmas holiday time that I’ve […]

2009 is here!

The old year has vanished for about 75% of the world, and in its place 2009 has settled. Within a few hours, we’ll all be there. Although it can be viewed as “just another day”, there’s something monumentual about a year going and a new one starting. At […]

Lynn Warneke on Seamless Teamwork

Here’s what Lynn Warneke had to say about my book, Seamless Teamwork: “As many reviewers and SharePoint bloggers have already noted, Michael Sampson has taken a rather novel approach with Seamless Teamwork, his new book from Microsoft Press on using SharePoint technologies “to collaborate, innovate and drive business […]

Seamless Teamwork … Chapter 12

I have just posted the final edition of Chapter 12 of Seamless Teamwork. The chapter introduces the concepts of stewardship, sustainable information design, and issues surrounding managing content over time with respect to SharePoint. It is co-authored with Grant Margison of Information Leadership. Chapter 12 includes the following […]

Messenger for Mac Update

Update from the Mac team at Microsoft re Microsoft Messenger: “I wanted to take a moment and share with you the progress we are making with Messenger for Mac. This year we successfully delivered Audio and Video (A/V) support in the corporate service (works with Office Communications Server) […]

NewsGator Social Sites 2.5

NewsGator released an update to Social Sites, its SharePoint add-in for enterprise social networking. “NewsGator today unveiled a new version of Social Sites, its comprehensive enterprise social computing solution, giving organizations powerful new ways to work smarter and solve business problems faster. NewsGator Social Sites lets companies activate […]

Meeting Maker to add CalDAV

The next release of Meeting Maker, a calendaring program, will support the CalDAV standard. “PeopleCube, provider of intelligent workplace and resource management technology, today announced that it’s upcoming release of the Meeting Maker group scheduling application will support CalDAV. The CalDAV standard enables users to share scheduling resources […]