Novell announced that its annual BrainShare conference won’t run in 2009. “Novell has alerted customers and partners that it is cancelling its annual BrainShare conference, which was to have been held in Salt Lake City in March, due to would-be attendees’ restricted travel budgets. Novell has held the […]
The pros and cons of hosted collaboration tools: “If it’s possible for business units to find ways to get their work done without going through IT as another layer of bureaucracy, it makes sense, to me, for them to do it. Even in a down economy work needs […]
Collanos released Version 1.4 of its collaborative workspace offering, adding new real-time capabilities. “Collanos releases the latest version of Collanos Workplace thereby making unified collaboration available to everyone. The existing teamwork collaboration services are now supplemented with new voice and video functions. To have fully supported, server-less, PC-based […]
Atlassian is hosting its first user summit in May-June 2009, in San Franscisco. They are looking for speakers. “Atlassian Summit is our first ever worldwide user conference. The event unites customers, partners, plugin developers and technical users in the Atlassian community. Atlassian Summit features 2 days, 3 tracks, […]
CalConnect is running a workshop on time zones in February. “CalConnect invites you to attend an open, one-day workshop on Timezone implementation and management in information technology, and how it can be improved. The workshop will be held Tuesday, February 2, 2009, from 0830-1730, hosted by Microsoft in […]
TANDBERG released a new version of its telepresence system. “TANDBERG has launched the TANDBERG T3, a six-seat telepresence group system that replaces the TANDBERG Experia. The system is available as a modular system or with an optional environmental package that provides chairs and innovatively designed Nordic-blue light walls […]
Gavin shares some really good ideas about how to structure spreadsheets to support later understanding; there are sanity-saving ideas that work for collaborative workspaces too. “As spreadsheets become more integral to our work (and, consequently, more complex in their design and function), a clear need has emerged to […]
Mike outlines his thinking about why Web Conferencing hasn’t become a mainstream application: “Why hasn’t web conferencing taken off like e-mail and other communication and collaboration tools? Certainly there are examples of specific applications where web conferencing has seen tremendous success: marketing webinars, virtual classrooms, and in certain […]
Kristina found evidence of a well-managed SharePoint implementation at a major financial institution: “I have been thinking about Web governance and SharePoint this past week. For the first time in my career, I saw a well-managed SharePoint implementation with ample (read several hundred), well-structured sites. The implementation was […]
IBM released Version 8.2 of its hosted web conferencing service, and announced a new distribution partnership. “IBM today introduced its the newest cloud service for Web conferencing, Lotus Sametime Unyte 8.2. IBM also announced a new distribution partnership with InterCall to deliver Lotus Sametime Unyte’s intuitive online meeting […]
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