PhD vs. Pirates 3
On Thursday I had a couple of meetings in Christchurch, and I knew that I’d be done by 12.30pm or so. Hence I faced a decision: should I do what I should do and go to the University and work on my PhD, or should I do what […]
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Daily Report for July 6, 2007
Team Collaboration SharePoint at SimCorp … Tony offers a case study of how SimCorp uses SharePoint for its corporate intranet, including how to offer up-to-date content, employee and competence search, and more. He also talks about how SimCorp organizes the people side of SharePoint: “The intranet team comprises […]
Response to Eric Mack on GTD 2.0
The man they call Eric Mack is wondering whether we need GTD 2.0, and if so, what it would look like. In particular, Eric’s postulating whether the methodology needs to expand to include more on managing the information and communication side of doing cool stuff (or “DCS”, did […]
Two Upcoming SharePoint for Business Seminars in New Zealand
I’m presenting a shortened version of the SharePoint for Business Seminar in two cities in New Zealand in the next two weeks. The seminar is based on the SharePoint for Business White Paper I released in May 2007. Wellington … Monday July 16, 6.00pm … to the Wellington […]
Brad Becomes an IT Manager!!!
Back in the day … in a previous professional life … 1999 I think … I was looking for staff for my growing collaboration software applications development firm. The second person I hired was Bradley Harrison … although he had no background in Lotus Notes, he was a […]
Computers: Male or Female?
A Spanish teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish, unlike English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine. “House” for instance, is feminine: “la casa.” “Pencil,” however, is masculine: “el lapiz..” A student asked, “What gender is ‘computer’?” Instead of giving the answer, the teacher […]
Daily Report for July 3, 2007
Team Collaboration Better Communication: Email, RSS and IM … Three ideas from organizations (Capital One, Union Bank, and Reuters) that have implemented new ways of communicating better: Capital One (write better email subject lines, and craft the message more carefully), Union Bank (shift broadcast emails to RSS), and […]
Hold on Leo … I Know You Want to become the "Next" David, But You Can't Do It This Way …
I generally like what Leo at Zen Habits has to say, but I think he’s flipped a bit with calling David Allen’s GTD setup “complicated”. He’s taken the list of 8 things that David uses to get things done, and says that it’s “complicated” in comparison with his […]
How to Make the Most of Lotus Notes/Domino
There are many organizations that use Notes/Domino that are considering a change to other things — including Microsoft’s stack. Of those, some will decide to stay with Notes/Domino … either they don’t see the net business value in changing, a migration of their Notes/Domino applications is going to […]
Daily Report for July 2, 2007
Team Collaboration Email Maps to How People Work … Matt argues that email is perhaps the “easiest route to group participation“, and that the problem with many enterprise applications today is that they don’t map to how people actually do their work. CNET News Email Reinvigorated … Mark […]
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