Microsoft is hosting the SharePoint Conference 2012 this week in Las Vegas. There’s about 10,000 people there—which makes for a huge event. Here’s some of the news I noted that was timed to coincide with the conference: AvePoint DocAve Analytics for SharePoint … AvePoint released a new Windows […]
Jive has offered a social collaboration platform for some years, and is one of the leading vendors. Two acquisitions this week have added strength to its social platform, but are more aligned with team collaboration: “Meetings.io, a next generation real-time communication platform, allows people to seamlessly and simply […]
A fun ad for the Microsoft Surface RT. Of course, what remains to be seen is whether the vision the young man sees in his head truly become a reality, or is merely wishful thinking. (And given the productivity message from Microsoft with the Surface, this does seem […]
Nat writes about the Surface RT: “The solution would be a tablet that is smart about the tech ecosystem around it, can stand comfortably on a desk or function as a tablet, has a compact but usable keyboard, and is compatible with the document formats that we work […]
Nat shares the experiences of people at his Seattle area firm with the Microsoft Surface: “Now Microsoft is the visionary. With the Surface they are leading the industry out of a world of limited and limiting devices, and into a new world where the device becomes a useful, […]
Marco writes about his experiences visiting a Microsoft store to look at the Surface RT. He concludes with: “It’s very clear who the Surface is for, and it’s not us. The Surface is partially for Microsoft’s world of denial: the world in which this store contains no elephants […]
In both 2011 and 2012 I attended (and spoke at) the Intranets201X conferences in Sydney. Both were very good events – well-organized, well-attended, well-run. I’ve been to few conferences around the world over recent years, and the Step Two team put on a world-class event both years. The […]
ConceptDRAW announced an integration with Evernote, to allow for various levels of integration between mindmaps and the Evernote service: "ConceptDraw MINDMAP can now, with the press of a button, save a single topic or a branch to Evernote for your future reference. The text from the entire map […]
In the second-to-last blog post I’ll be writing for The Smarter Office, I posted about adoption of mobile devices and apps, and how the current dynamics are different to collaboration systems: “… there are a range of practical and sociological factors at play in the adoption of collaboration […]
In late August I posted about the imminent release of Version 4 of IBM Connections, a suite of applications that supports team collaboration, enterprise community formation, and social sharing in a business context. In early September IBM released Version 4, and it’s now available for installation, analysis, adoption, […]
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