One principle of an effective meeting at work is to use face-to-face time for discussion, negotiation, and clarification – not for passing on the information. Meeting attendees are supposed to come to the meeting already prepared – they’ve read the briefing papers, they’ve studied the options, they’ve formulated […]
SAP StreamWork published a case study on how Direct Relief International is using SAP StreamWork for collaborative decision-making: “Humanitarian aid organization Direct Relief International has been bringing critically needed medicines and supplies to people affected by poverty, disaster or civil unrest for more than 60 years. In 2010, […]
PleaseTech announced the introduction of PleaseAuthor, a structured authoring product: “PleaseTech Ltd, a specialist solutions provider for collaborative document authoring and review, today announced the introduction of PleaseAuthor, a major new component-based authoring solution. PleaseAuthor will be available alongside the company’s flagship product, PleaseReview. With a planned release […]
Atlassian released version 1.8 of Team Calendars, with the new ability to integrate Confluence team calendars with Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook. “This release allows you to consolidate your Team Calendars and your personal calendar. With an already strapped personal calendar loaded with the day’s responsibilities, the idea […]
Suzanne Livingston and Michael Wanderski are presenting on communities in Connections. My notes from the session: – Will be talking about a variety of use cases for communities (note that these are similar to what I talk about in the collaboration scenarios in Collaboration Roadmap. It’s also an […]
My latest post is up on The BrainYard, entitled One Way to Fix SharePoint’s Outlook Problem: “For as long as I can remember, I have connected the idea of “SharePoint on the desktop” with Colligo Networks and its suite of products for taking SharePoint offline and embedding it […]
Mindjet released Mindjet Connect SP, for working with tasks and documents in SharePoint from a MindManager map. Key ideas: – Embedding maps in SharePoint sites for finding information, documents, and locations quickly. Maps can be created within the SharePoint site. – Create dashboards of upcoming tasks, and use […]
Atlassian released another update to its Team Calendars application for Confluence, with improved integration in this latest edition with Jira: “Since Team Calendars 1.0, you’ve been able to map default date fields in JIRA – issue and version due dates – on a JIRA Calendar for everyone to […]
New Features Overview from Yammer on Vimeo. Yammer rolled out three new capabilities to support enhanced sharing and collaboration. Those are: Activity Stream Ticker … for automatically pointing to activity in other parts of Yammer that people are doing, such as editing pages, or uploading files. Ticker also […]
oneDrum released a peer-to-peer desktop application to enable collaboration within Microsoft Office applications: “Inspired by the concept of a networked application that could reduce the cost and friction associated with true collaboration, oneDrum was developed to respond to the needs of the modern, mobile information worker. The application […]
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