The latest edition of the Collaboration Newswire crossed the wire just over an hour ago. The focus in this one is on Extending Single User Applications for Collaboration, and I wrote about eXpresso Corp, which starts: “The core applications that most information workers use on a daily basis […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Five keys to collaboration from a literary agent: (1) think twice about a collaborative arrangement because there will be challenges, (2) clarify each person’s role, (3) get the legalities straight from the beginning, (4) engage your most mature self, […]
Waking at 3.17am … thus waking up 7 minutes before my alarm clock was due to go off. Seeing a little owl on the road at 3.55am. It flew off as I turned the corner. Driving to the airport with a pilot about to fly a plane to […]
With virtual teams spread across the world, different backgrounds, cultures, work styles, approaches to formality, and methods of communication makes effective team work more difficult. Sometimes it is really helpful to have an external facilitator join a conference call or video conference to help with the process of […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Four new case studies of wikis at work: Motorola in Norway (documentation for quality standards), Frankfurt Airport (cross-organizational knowledge sharing), BTicino (a sales force community of practice), and Société Française de Radiotéléphone (for sharing of knowledge between customer service […]
Dr. Paul Krivonos from CSUN (scroll down to get to him) teaches and consults on knowledge management. He’s in New Zealand at the moment, and will be presenting a seminar on April 16 to the Christchurch chapter of the New Zealand Knowledge Management network, entitled Creating a Supportive […]
Susanna (3) wanted me to bake gingerbread men with her this afternoon. We made 16 — the first 8 disappeared for afternoon tea — and the remaining 8 got iced before being consumed by hungry desert goers. I didn’t have the right icing equipment, so used (very clean) […]
When work is undertaken in virtual teams, you often can’t see the other people that you’re working with (they are invisible to you) and your communication is mediated by technology (email, IM, the phone, a shared workspace, Twitter, etc.). If others choose not to respond to email or […]
The Technology Trends of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Actai Networks released c2call, a browser-based voice-over-IP service. “It works without installation with any recent Windows, Mac or Linux Browser. You can make free internet calls like writing web based emails, just log into http://www.c2call.com and you can make […]
Intergen Limited is a Gold Certified Microsoft Partner in New Zealand, and they regularly run Twilight Seminars to inform their clients about “current trends, technologies and initiatives in the space where business and information technology overlap.” Intergen has invited me to present a SharePoint for Collaboration session in […]
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