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Michael Sampson

WWPYCBW: Technology (November 17, 2008)

IBM Foundations Server Appliance … IBM announced IBM Lotus Foundations Start, an appliance edition of its Foundations Server. “The IBM Lotus Foundations appliance has everything a customer needs to quickly set up a reliable IT infrastructure. The software uses the IBM Lotus Notes/Domino collaboration platform to enable employees […]

"Hello, I'm an Angry PC"

A month ago today I switched from a Mac to a PC, for various reasons, some of which I outlined in a blog post . It was a brand new PC — a Lenovo W500 with 4GB of RAM, running Windows Vista Ultimate, and connected to my existing […]

A Box Arrives

David went to collect the mail this morning, and returned carrying the usual complement of letters … and a brown box. I asked him if it was heavy, thinking it was a bit big for the replacement DVD drive I’m waiting for. When I held it, it was […]

Feedback on Michael's Conference Presentations

Audiences love Michael’s presentations and workshops. Here’s what other people have said (and yes, these are direct quotes): “Great Session. Michael was a good speaker and ran an informative session. What better way to start a conference on collaboration than to run a session where you are encouraged […]

WWPYCBW: Technology (November 12, 2008)

Benefits of Employee Blogs … Brett outlines a long list of benefits from the use of blogs within the enterprise, including efficient content publication, greater text articulation of knowledge, and the creation of communities of interest, among others. More Elguji IdeaJam … Elguji Software posted a video overview […]

Effective Virtual Team Meetings

A couple of weeks back, Angelo from the Leading Virtually blog wrote about casual virtual team participants and the danger they pose to virtual teams. The main idea was that if you don’t know how to work specifically on a virtual team, you will pull down the performance […]

WWPYCBW: Technology (November 7, 2008)

BlackBerry Bold Review … Jim reviews his BlackBerry Bold; he says it's a "game changer". More DoingText … DoingText released its online authoring service. "The idea behind DoingText is simple: you launch a new discussion by pasting a chunk of text to their site. From there, you get […]

Chapter 11 of Seamless Teamwork Posted

There are two additional online-only chapters for Seamless Teamwork: Chapter 11, which extends the ideas of Seamless Teamwork to the Sponsors and Stakeholders site, talking about how these groups use the site that has been set up for them; and Chapter 12, which introduces the main governance issues […]