I’ve been in Wellington for a couple of days this week, mainly for running the User Adoption Strategies Workshop in-house for a client. We did the workshop in a single intensive day, so it was pretty full-on … but it can be done with a will. I caught […]
I’ve had two Macs for the past two and bit years; an iMac 27 for in-the-office work, and a MacBook Pro 13 for out-and-about work. The balance has worked well, but as I’ve been doing more workshops and seminars, I’ve been noticing that the 13″ screen was getting […]
On The Smarter Office blog, I wrote about the dangers of pushing collaboration too far: “In a couple of recent conference presentations, I’ve shared some concerns with taking the concept of collaboration too far, or pushing it into areas that are ill-suited to the nature of collaborative interaction. […]
Martin White from Intranet Focus in the United Kingdom has received his copy of the second edition of User Adoption Strategies, and has just posted his review. It’s the first I’ve seen: “It concerns me that there is a common view in organisations that collaboration within the organisation […]
On The Smarter Office, I posted my thoughts about the updated / enhanced / new ways of collaborating in the upcoming Office 2013: “It’s one of Microsoft’s regular big years this year, with a whole swath of updated products coming to market in line with Microsoft’s three or […]
Conferenz is running a one-day workshop entitled Working in Collaborative Environments on August 15 in Auckland. I’ll be there for the day as the conference chairperson, and will be presenting a session in the afternoon. “All organisations desire synergy to enhance organisational performance. Collaborative tools are just one […]
It was my friend Peter Crow some years ago who introduced me to the wonders of the form-fitting covers from Radtech for Apple products. He’d purchased a MacBook Air and somehow scored a grey Radtech cover in the process. What I immediately loved about the idea was that […]
Vaughan Rivett from IBM New Zealand is presenting on the IBM Social Software Success Story. The session is in Auckland New Zealand, and there's about 80 people here for a 7.30am breakfast and presentation. Vaughan's struck an engaging tone for the session, lots of people are nodding in […]
Early on Saturday morning I packaged up all of the pre-orders for the second edition of User Adoption Strategies, and put most in the mail later that day. Some left on Monday morning, and one team order left yesterday. So now they are all winging their ways to […]
PGi is a web meetings / web conferencing provider I’ve never heard of before, but apparently have been around for a number of years. Earlier this month PGi released a new HD client for the iPad: “With the new GlobalMeet mobile meeting app, users can join and host […]
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