State of the Modern Meeting—from Blue Jeans
Collaboration technology is reshaping how people meet. Blue Jeans Network looks at the current state of meetings, and highlights the changes in an infographic.
Google New Sheets
Google introduced a new version of its online spreadsheet, called (new) Sheets. The new version is faster, supports many more cells and columns, and works offline. You need to switch to the new version to get it, since it has been rebuilt from the ground up. A couple […]
Using Office 365 and Office Web Apps for a Project – Reflections
Office 365 is shaping up to be a great place for team collaboration. A few reflections on using Office 365 from a Mac on a current client project.
“How New Tools and Processes Can Help People and Their Organizations Succeed”
Alan Lepofsky, VP and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research, shares his wish list for 2014: I would like to see less discussion/marketing about the technology itself and more focus on how new tools and processes can help people and their organizations succeed. Companies should not be focusing on […]
Easy First Steps – a User Adoption Strategy (and what IBM is doing in IBM Connections with Touchpoint)
In my User Adoption Strategies book I write about many strategies that can be used to encourage user adoption of new collaborative tools and approaches. One of those strategies is called “Easy First Steps,” a Stage 3 (Enlivening Applicability) strategy. Here’s what the book says on page 188 […]
Collaboration on the Intranet
In late September 2013 I presented a keynote speech at the Interaction 2013 conference in London. I talked about why the intranet needs to support collaborative activities, outlined some core concepts (culture, governance, adoption), and then talked about the journey ahead.
Working Out Loud
Change Agents Worldwide released an animation looking at what working out loud means, and the benefits that accrue to individuals, groups, organizations, and customers. It was prepared in the context of Salesforce Chatter. Nice work. And there’s an infographic to go with the animation too. If you are […]
Avanade Research on Social Collaboration in the Enterprise
Earlier this year Avanade released its research on the state of social collaboration in the enterprise. “Today we announced the findings of our latest global research study that shows how the consumerization of IT plays a huge role in driving perceptions about enterprise social collaboration. More and more […]
Insights on Connections (November 2013)
Insights on Connections provides updates, socializes new ideas, and shares the latest thinking and approaches for being effective with IBM Connections. Topics includes managing the profile lifecycle, integrating calendar information with Connections, and recent updates to the product.
Livescribe 3
Last week the team at Livescribe announced the third iteration of the Livescribe pen. In its first iteration, when the pen was used with special Livescribe dot paper, you could take notes and associate an audio recording made with the pen with each part of the writing. That […]
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