In an attempt to encourage staff to shift to new ways of communicating, Peter Hughes at Cisco has banned his staff from using email for broadcasting messages: “Employees’ reliance on email as the primary mode of communication is hurting business productivity, according to an executive at one of […]
I know the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2014 in Las Vegas was over a month ago, but here’s the news I saw coming out from the show (or a bit after). Nintex’s 1000 Cloud Customers … Nintex announced that over 1000 customers are using its cloud-based tools for Office […]
In July I will be attending and participating in both the Australian SharePoint Conference (Sydney, July 15-16) and the New Zealand SharePoint Conference (Auckland, July 22-23), put on and coordinated by Debbie Ireland and her team at ShareThePoint. I will be doing three things at each of the […]
The Office team at Microsoft announced three updates to OneNote today: a Mac version, a freemium model (both OneNote 2013 for Windows and the new OneNote for Mac are free, with premium features available by subscription), and a new API for the cloud service. OneNote for Mac “Similar […]
The highlights from the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2014 in Las Vegas, including Office Graph, SharePoint 2013 SP1, and OneDrive for Business.
ComputerWorld New Zealand has a case study on the benefits Microsoft Lync has brought to Beca New Zealand, an engineering consultancy. Aside from cost savings, those benefits include: – the ability to iterate faster and be more agile. In terms of agility, you can work from anywhere there’s […]
(thanks to @joebaxter for the photo) At IBM Connect 2014 today, IBM announced “Mail Next,” to be branded under the IBM Connections family. It was positioned as a re-think of email. Mail Next was introduced in the Opening General Session, and then there was a very well attended […]
Insights on Connections provides updates, socializes new ideas, and shares the latest thinking and approaches for being effective with IBM Connections. See case study on Evonik Industries, extending IBM Connections with third-party products, and governance.
ISW introduces Kudos Boards, for visualizing Activities in IBM Connections using a Kanban board style visual layout.
A couple of articles on the Surface / Surface Pro 2 caught my eye in the past week: 1. Steve Ballmer said the Surface was a tougher bet than the Xbox. Reasons include: (1) channel / hardware partner conflicts, (2) harder competition dynamics in the tablet market versus […]
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