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Michael Sampson

Daily Report, Feb 26

Team Collaboration Wary 2.0 … Research by InformationWeek discovers that business technology folks are concerned about the security aspects of Enterprise 2.0 offerings. And the lack of integration is a problem too: “First steps count, but Enterprise 2.0 can’t just be about a wiki here, a blog there […]

SharePoint for Business

One of the main research themes of Collaboration Success Advisors is how organizations can embrace SharePoint 2007 for enhanced business performance. My analysis of SharePoint as an effective technology has changed over the last few years … the 2003 version got a thumbs-down from me … whereas even […]

IT Manager 2.0

Much of the “2.0” trend is focused on bypassing the IT department and IT manager in organizations. Rightly or wrongly, in many organizations the IT department is viewed by the masses as the “Business Prevention Department” … that is, they get in the way of getting business stuff […]

Beyond Email

One of the main research themes of Collaboration Success Advisors is how and where it is appropriate to move people beyond email to newer / better / faster / more effective collaboration tools. If you have some thoughts on this … that is, if you have shifted some […]

Daily Report, Feb 23

Team Collaboration Google Apps Premier Edition … Google released a Premier Edition of its online suite of office productivity tools, including Gmail (email), Google Talk (IM), Google Calendar, Page Creator, Start Page, and Docs & Spreadsheets. It includes 10GB of storage per user, a 99.9% uptime guarantee, an […]

Daily Report, Feb 21

Team Collaboration Central Desktop Integrates EditGrid … Central Desktop announced an integration with EditGrid, the online spreadsheet solution. Key capabilities: creating, editing and sharing online spreadsheets, importing and exporting from and to Excel, user permissions for access, chart creation, and more. Available immediately, as part of the standard […]

Meeting up with Rod, Feb 21

The man himself, Rod Drury, spent a few hours in Christchurch this afternoon. Given that I’d asked to discuss some ideas with him prior to his main engagement, I got to pick him up at the airport and take him out for coffee. I had a suitable placard […]

Daily Report, Feb 20

Team Collaboration Google Docs & Spreadsheets in 12 New Languages … Google released Google Docs & Spreadsheets in 12 additional languages. “The languages we’ve added are: French, Italian, German, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Turkish, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian and – you guessed it – Polish. If […]