Category: Industry Updates

Daily Report for July 20, 2007

Team Collaboration Review of Lotus Quickr … John reviews Lotus Quickr, and the role it can play within an Intranet. “Quickr is the evolution of Lotus Quickplace. Quickplace has been around for more than eight years, and has always been a self-service team room and document management system. […]

Daily Report for July 16, 2007

Team Collaboration Groove 2007 with Office 2003 … Although Groove 2007 is available with Office Enterprise 2007, many customers will have to remain on Office 2003 for a while. So it is possible to run Groove 2007 alongside Office 2003, but note there’s a bug that requires resolution […]

Daily Report for July 13, 2007

Team Collaboration Business Value of Knowledge Worker Solutions … David outlines a three-part approach for valuing the impact of tools and technologies on knowledge workers. Two are relatively easy; the third is very difficult. IT@Intel Blog Calling Mindjet *ntrepreneurs … Mindjet is seeking entrepreneurs and interpreneurs using MindManager […]

Daily Report for July 11, 2007

Team Collaboration IntelliGantt for MindManager … TeamDirection released an add-on for Mindjet MindManager, linking it to IntelliGantt and thus SharePoint and Groove. Eg, for publishing topics and subtopics to a SharePoint task list. “What’s more, using our IntelliGantt sharing capabilities, its just a couple clicks to share a […]

Daily Report for July 10, 2007

Team Collaboration Upgrading from WSS v2 to v3 … Chan has details on what’s involved in upgrading from Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services v2 to v3. As he says, there’s no silver bullet. Eg, “Note down the version of the WSS V2 server. With each service pack the version […]

Daily Report for July 9, 2007

Team Collaboration Employees Want More Virtual Meetings … UK employees would be more than happy to shift some of their meetings to virtual ones, thus eliminating some travel from their schedules. “In fact, though employees say they would readily adopt greener remote working practices, they are being stopped […]

Daily Report for July 6, 2007

Team Collaboration SharePoint at SimCorp … Tony offers a case study of how SimCorp uses SharePoint for its corporate intranet, including how to offer up-to-date content, employee and competence search, and more. He also talks about how SimCorp organizes the people side of SharePoint: “The intranet team comprises […]

Daily Report for July 3, 2007

Team Collaboration Better Communication: Email, RSS and IM … Three ideas from organizations (Capital One, Union Bank, and Reuters) that have implemented new ways of communicating better: Capital One (write better email subject lines, and craft the message more carefully), Union Bank (shift broadcast emails to RSS), and […]

Daily Report for July 2, 2007

Team Collaboration Email Maps to How People Work … Matt argues that email is perhaps the “easiest route to group participation“, and that the problem with many enterprise applications today is that they don’t map to how people actually do their work. CNET News Email Reinvigorated … Mark […]

Daily Report for June 30, 2007

Team Collaboration Centric Team Elements … Centric CRM released a preview version of Centric Team Elements, a suite of Enterprise 2.0 applications for its customer relationship management offering. “Centric Team Elements is the first complete, open source, Java-based Enterprise 2.0 product. It ties together discussions, wikis, blogs, RSS […]