On May 19, I’m presenting on the business value of collaboration at a Datasouth Understand seminar, here in Christchurch (New Zealand). “Michael … will be sharing his experiences on the business value of effective collaboration. Michael will breakdown many of the misconceptions about collaboration and present a thought […]
Tungle announced the addition of Tungle.me to the Google Apps Marketplace. – For Google Apps organizations, all employees can be automagically given Tungle.me too. Mashable reviewed four Web-based meeting scheduling services. – Doodle … “pleasantly light, quick-and-dirty scheduler with the most intuitive interface“ – Tungle … “a brand […]
Today I installed MindManager for SharePoint on my Lenovo W500 running Windows 7 Professional. There were a couple of pre-requisites that weren’t there already, and after prompting me for them and getting me okay, downloaded and installed them with no problem. So far so good. Testing the Task […]
Mindjet released a new product a while back, and I’ve been taking a look this week. It’s called MindManager for SharePoint, and combines the visual mapping power of MindManager with the collaboration capabilities of SharePoint. A couple of specifics up front: – It’s a different product from MindManager […]
SAP recently shifted 12sprints (which I reviewed in February), its collaborative decision-making service, out of beta and into production. It has a new name: SAP StreamWork. From the features page: “SAP STREAMWORK IS RESULTS-DRIVEN Give structure to discussions and create a collective view with business methods: When maneuvering […]
Okay, so this is an idea … re-orienting what I’ve historically done about new products and services in line with common collaborative processes. I’m not promising to do this again, or regularly … I’m just experimenting. Comments welcome. I’ll have to re-think this layout though … it’s hard […]
Whenever I think of Mainsoft, the Mainsoft Lotus Notes to SharePoint integration plug-in is the first thing that comes to mind. I know they do other things with other tools, but it’s the end-user collaboration piece that’s central for me. Now they have another tool in their collection […]
Social scientists report that if group members are told or exposed to what the other people in the group think about an issue, there is a greater likelihood that subsequent people in the group will conform their thinking. This is decision making in light of full prior disclosure. […]
Kevin Cavanaugh, a Vice President at IBM, was one of the keynote speakers at the recent Lotusphere 2010 conference. As part of his keynote speech on the first day, he said, and I quote: “The problem that all of us deal with today is we have not one, […]
SAP released the public beta of 12sprints yesterday: “SAP AG has made its 12sprints collaborative decision-making project available via public beta and has formed a strategic research partnership with The 2.0 Adoption Council ― a peer forum of IT and business leaders and thinkers who are discovering new […]
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