KnowledgeMill, a London-based developer of email management software, received £1.5 million in funding from a couple of investment firms: “YFM Equity Partners (through its managed fund Seraphim Capital) and MMC Ventures have co-invested on a £1.5m growth capital investment into KnowledgeMill, a company that has developed a cloud-based […]
CREDANT Technologies recently undertook a survey of hotels in San Francisco, asking about lost mobile devices. It published the results as an infographic. Over some period of time (undefined in the infographic): – Over 2000 mobile devices were lost/left behind. – 80% of devices were smartphones. – Almost […]
Microsoft is putting the final touches on the next edition of Windows – Windows 8. It’s due later this year. One of the key ideas is the coherence of the interface across multiple devices – from phones, to tablets, to laptops, to desktops. Live Tiles is a big […]
SmartDraw is on a mission to improve meetings. In an email newsletter today, it shared the following research statistics: “1. There are estimated to be more than 11 million business meetings in the US every day. 2. Most executives attend about 62 meetings every month. 3. An average […]
Encouraging and Facilitating Collaboration at Work Last week I keynoted at Congres Intranet 2012 in Utrecht. My keynote was on encouraging and facilitating collaboration at work. A slightly revised deck is above – I’ve taken out the extra slides that only work when presented in person. Here’s some […]
Last week I had a flying visit to the Netherlands, Belgium, and London. On Tuesday I keynoted at Congres Intranet 2012 on facilitating and encouraging collaboration. My video post-keynote is above. I had a lot of fun at the conference, although I didn’t fully comprehend the implications for […]
While in London last week, I posted Pay Attention to Quality in Collaborative Interactions on The Smarter Office blog. I wrote about the need for quality in audio, video, and text-based collaborative interactions. Here’s the paragraph about quality in audio interactions: “In an audio setting, having a high […]
Peter links to a review of the “New iPad” in a “Post-PC World.” The final paragraphs of Alexander’s review state: “Just to clarify, I really enjoy using iPads, and continue to believe they are great media consumption devices. I love to read books on them. I love to […]
Effective immediately, User Adoption Strategies (2010) is now out-of-print. I do not have any more physical copies of the book available for sale. You can still purchase the book in ebook format from: – Amazon for Kindle – Apple for iBooks My thanks to everyone who purchased a […]
In about 24 hours I’ll be driving toward Christchurch Airport, to begin 40 hours of travel to get to Europe. Some of the engagements I’m heading up for have been in the works for 12 months or more, so it will be great to finally be there. My […]
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