Category: Industry Updates

Daily Report for August 8, 2007

Team Collaboration Yon MeetingSense 2.0 … Yon Software released Version 2.0 of MeetingSense, software to help people have successful meetings. “MeetingSense software dramatically improves meeting productivity by empowering employees to automatically capture, distribute, archive, and manage all of the critical information that is shared during meetings, while allowing […]

Daily Report for August 7, 2007

Team Collaboration Wikis in the Workplace … Patrick looks at how wikis are being used in the workplace, and how some uses are replacing email traffic. Use cases include: project collaboration (BonaSource), expertise discovery (BusinessObjects), dictionary of company acronyms (Intel), and more. Global and Mail Wikis for Requirements […]

Daily Report for August 6, 2007

Team Collaboration Collaboration Periodic Table … Mindquarry has put together a periodic table of collaboration, covering people, productivity software, collaborative software, and methods. Lars says “The aim of “Elements of Collaboration” is to give an overview about current collaboration techniques and technology and to show how better collaboration […]

Daily Report for August 2, 2007

Team Collaboration Challenges of Virtual Teams … Jessica shares a list of challenges faced by virtual workers from a recent workshop: the difficultly of building personal relationships, the challenge of knowing people’s real skills, language understanding challenges, small window for synchronous communication, and more. Endless Knots Groove Server […]

Daily Report for August 1, 2007

Team Collaboration What Does Collaboration Technology Mean to You? … Graham takes a whack at answering Stu’s question: what does collaboration technology mean to you? He concludes with “I regularly find myself in the situation where the technology has enabled me to overcome the time and space barriers […]

Daily Report for July 31, 2007

Team Collaboration Quantifying Web 2.0 Value … Forrester Research reports on interviews with 275 IT decision makers on the business value achieved through various Web 2.0 technologies. However, they include instant messaging as a Web 2.0 tool, which seems a bit label loose to me. Read/Write Web ROI […]

Daily Report for July 30, 2007

Team Collaboration Shared Calendar Scenarios … The Notes/Domino team is looking for real-world scenarios of where business users want to share calendar information with others. IBM developerWorks Mozilla Drops Thunderbird … Mozilla announced plans to find a new development home for Thunderbird, its open source email client. Mozilla […]

Daily Report for July 26, 2007

Team Collaboration Plug-Ins from Box.net … Box.net added new plug-ins to permit users to backup and share files directly from OpenOffice, Photoshop, Adobe, and 3ds max. “These plug-ins are part of a greater intent to build a plug-in for every popular application that allows for one. We have […]

Daily Report for July 24, 2007

Team Collaboration Spreadsheet Discovery … Lyquidity Solutions added Spreadsheet Discovery to its ComplyXL spreadsheet management and control offering. “ComplyXL Spreadsheet Discovery allows organizations to pro-actively locate and control user spreadsheets. This feature can operate independently or with existing search tools such as Windows Content Indexing Server or Google […]

Daily Report for July 23, 2007

Team Collaboration All Collaboration Isn’t Good … A thoughtful critique on advocacy around “collaboration”, including “Collaboration isn’t good, but it can be.” Well worth the read. AlwaysOn PersonalBrain 4.0 … TheBrain Technologies released Version 4.0 of PersonalBrain, its information visualization and organization software. “PersonalBrain’s award-winning dynamic user interface […]