The Latest News Sunday December 9, 2.56pm Pacific From Oliver Starr: “It is with great sadness that I report that Marc Orchant, Husband to Sue, Father to Rebecca and Jason, and friend to so many, passed away just a short time ago. I was notified by Marc’s brother […]
In Hey, Let’s Buy Something Big (Business Week, October 24, 2005), the authors report on M&A activity for Europe and the United States for 3Q2005. The sentence I wrote based on their information was: “ … in the third quarter of 2005, European companies consummated deals to the […]
A dream came true today … the first edition of the new Collaboration Newswire turned up in my inbox (yay!). I have been working with Jeff Victor, the publisher of Messaging News and the Messaging Newswire, for a number of months on expanding into this new content market. […]
The September/October edition of Messaging News was posted to the Web last week. My article in this edition is entitled What is the Impact of Enterprise 2.0 on the CIO?: “The Chief Information Officer’s (CIO’s) role in an organization is to oversee the provision of technology and information […]
When life gets extra busy, part of surviving requires determining what you can reasonably eliminate or defer. A meeting here, a report there, a project or two over there, and you are at a sustainable place. The extra busyness tapers off, and that which you put aside can […]
After feeling very “I’m buying a new Mac”-ish yesterday after my Leopard upgrade fiasco, I took the cheaper route and visited the Apple Support forums. As per Ben’s comment, I wasn’t the only one experiencing the blue screen of perpetual serenity, as the forums had a technote from […]
I’m not happy!!! Just installed Leopard on an 11 month old MacBook Pro, and now it won’t start up. It goes past the white screen with the Apple logo, and then hangs on a blue screen. Oh the irony. I can see it now: Eric’s going to start […]
Doug and Jonathan from Microsoft, plus Chan from Provoke Solutions, presented a session entitled “Creating Business Value through Collaboration”. After the introductory video about Parks Canada and its embrace of Office 2007, Jonathan discussed the changing nature of work. Eg, from individual productivity to collaborative team productivity, from […]
I had a strategic retreat part time over three days of this week. One of the key lessons for me was to keep action lists actionable, and not fill them up with amorphous blobs of undoability. A related lesson was to express multi-year projects as shorter duration projects […]
I hope it is evident to anyone who has spent even a couple of minutes on this site that I’m deeply passionate about the whole area of collaboration. And that I have been for a long time. What is probably less clear is how I make a living […]
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