The sun is setting on the horizon, there’s about 30 minutes of sunlight remaining. Two sisters, on opposing teams, combined with 10 of their children, play soccer on the green field. There’s five 9 and over, three between 5 and 8, and two under 4. The goals are […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams With our workforce being composed of three generations, we need to learn how to work effectivelyw with people from other generations. “By using the unique characteristics of different generation to compliment each other and to effect the sharing and […]
Steve Kennedy from Sungard is presenting at the New Zealand Computer Society meeting here in Christchurch tonight, on the topic of “Unified Communications – Some Recent Real World Experiences”. Steve is the IT Director of Corporate IT at Sungard, with oversight for the Asia Pacific regions. Sungard offers […]
When you are with other people and can observe them over time, you build up a picture of their trustworthiness. If Sam says he’ll do something, do you believe him? The words are the same whether he does or doesn’t, but your perception of whether he really will […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams If you are going to work from home or be part of a virtual team, have a strategy to deal with loneliness. Some ideas: get the in-person contact from others (eg, not your work colleagues), go into the office […]
Two products from Microsoft — OneNote 2007 and SharePoint 2007. One goal: effective team collaboration. Can you combine the power of the freeform OneNote with the greater structure of SharePoint and get something good happening? And even if you can, should you? This is my take. Can You? […]
Go and visit your team members, even if they live on the other side of the world (actually, that’s all the more reason to do so). If you are working with others for a long period of time, say over 6 months, and the work is intensive (you […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams NewsObserver looks at how some companies are supporting telecommuting by employees, including IBM, Cisco, and Red Hat. Implications: lower gas bills, more flexitime, and a transition to results-based assessment rather than time-based. The Technology Trends of Enterprise Collaboration and […]
Last Friday, I sent out my new email newsletter for the first time. There were a couple of problems for people that received it, which I haven’t been too happy about: (1) I changed DNS servers for michaelsampson.net about 10 days ago, and some internal DNS servers have […]
Novell is here in Christchurch today, bringing the “Best of Brainshare 2008” to the local market and the rest of the South Island. Given their recent acquisition of SiteScape (in March), and the work around Novell Teaming + Conferencing, I am here to listen and learn. First up […]
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