As an author of books and newsletters, I get blind to the errors in my writing. In recent years I have come to rely on someone else to double check what I have written before it gets published. Sure I read it over myself, but having worked with […]
This presentation explores social factors in collaboration, particularly how the way people behave impacts on adoption of new ways of working together. The presentation has three main sections: Approaches to improving adoption (slides 4-18) … a brief review of adoption fundamentals, such as adoption happens in an organizational […]
[Blog Post] What are the core ideas of holding a collaborative discussion?
One of the concepts for building collaborative capabilities into tools is to support the need for collaboration “in the flow” of what the user is doing, as opposed to taking them out to another or separate application. If collaborative activity is part of the work process, that activity […]
Last week Microsoft announced details of Office 2016 for the Windows desktop. The details included new features for Outlook: – We’ve replaced the RPC-based sync with a new Internet-friendly MAPI-HTTP protocol that supports Exchange/Outlook connectivity. – We’ve eliminated the use of foreground network calls to ensure that Outlook […]
Benjamin from Sharegate offers an infographic and blog post on why “migrating” to OneDrive for Business is the wrong way to think about it. I thought this way a pretty good way of describing the problem with doing so: … OneDrive for Business is a way for them […]
Merck has almost finished an 11 month transition to Office 365 from various older Microsoft products and messaging and collaboration tools from other vendors (e.g., IBM, WebEx). The deployment of the new foundation is expected to be completed by mid-April. Here’s the paragraphs in the announcement about the […]
Michael’s latest thinking on being effective with user adoption. This issue looks at the progression from Adoption 101, and adoption strategies for unified communications.
It looks likely that I’ll be in the United States for a client project at the end of April. The committed days will be Monday April 27 and Tuesday April 28. This means I will have some days available for other engagements – consulting or in-house workshops. Those […]
Thoughts on taking a strategic approach to Office 365, and two models to support this. Presentation at the SharePoint User Group meeting in Christchurch.
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