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Michael Sampson

Cool Companies on the 101, May 13

Sure is fun driving down the 101 towards San Francisco–and seeing all the buildings with company names I know … McAfee, Sun, Yahoo, EMC … a true geeks paradise. Too bad I don’t have time to engage with them on collaboration strategy during this visit. And yes, I’m […]

"It is time Frodo", May 13

I love the scene in the final Lord of the Rings movie when Gandalf is waiting at the boat to head off from Middle Earth, and he turns to the four hobbits and says, “It is time Frodo.” The other three hobbits turn to Frodo in dismay, and […]

Daily Report, May 12

Team Collaboration SharedView Goes Public … Microsoft rebranded “Tahiti”, its small group collaboration service, as “Shared View”, and rolled it out for public download. “Microsoft SharedView is a fast and easy way to share documents and screen views with small groups of friends or coworkers; anytime, anywhere. Use […]

Daily Report, May 10

Team Collaboration Collanos Workplace 1.1 … Collanos Software released Version 1.1 of Collanos Workplace, its peer-to-peer team collaboration solution. New features: a central user directory of all Collanos users, a way of flagging (and thus resolving) conflicting changes, Vista OS support, and more. Available immediately. Collanos Mobility No […]

Daily Report, May 9

Team Collaboration Sametime 7.5 Review … Instant Messaging Planet reviewed Lotus Sametime, the enterprise IM and presence offering from IBM. Talking points: a streamlined user interface, Web conference re-connection on disconnection attempts, a new plug-in interface for developers, a multi-protocol gateway for federation, and multi-client support, among others. […]

SharePoint for Business: A Six Step Strategy for Achieving Collaboration Success and Improving Business with SharePoint

Michael Sampson announces the immediate availability of SharePoint for Business, an independent white paper that investigates how to use SharePoint for business. Microsoft SharePoint is garnering much attention in organizations, with Microsoft’s business partners, among the analyst community, and in the press. It is now a fundamental element […]

Daily Report, May 8

Team Collaboration Colligo for SharePoint 2.1 … Colligo released Version 2.1 of its offline clients for SharePoint, Colligo Reader (read-only) and Colligo Contributor (bi-directional synchronization). The big new feature is an add-in for Microsoft Office Outlook, for synchronizing SharePoint document libraries to Outlook folders, drag-and-drop of emails / […]

Daily Report, May 7

Team Collaboration Confluence Hosted … Atlassian released a hosted edition of Confluence, its enterprise wiki offering. Key features: unlimited spaces/pages, 10GB space limitation, SSL for security, and more. Pricing is based on the number of users accessing the system. Atlassian, Social Computing Zimbra and Comcast … Zimbra announced […]

Daily Report, May 3

Team Collaboration Tivoli for SharePoint … IBM released the Tivoli Storage Manager for Microsoft SharePoint, providing new backup and recovery options. Supports SharePoint 2003 and 2007. “TSM for Microsoft SharePoint is aimed at reducing data loss and minimizing risks associated with organizations accessing, sharing and managing projects and […]