Category: Tools & Technologies

Notes on BP304 The Way of the Social Dragon

Carlos Casas and Kathy Mandelstein are talking about building a social community in your organization. My notes on the session: – want to focus on cultural change, more than introducing a social pilot – why do social projects fail? Just because you build it they won’t come, embedded […]

Notes from INV301 IBM's Social Business Strategy

At Lotusphere 2012, Douglas Heintzman (Director of Strategy, IBM Collaboration Solutions) and Andrew Warzecha (VP of Strategy, IBM Solutions Group) are presenting on IBM’s social business strategy. Here’s my notes: – Will be talking about some of the thinking within IBM about the forces that are changing the […]

Lotusphere 2012 – Opening General Session

Alistair Rennie, General Manager – last year IBM introduced social business. Let’s review what we’ve done in the past year, and what’s coming up. Michael J Fox, “don’t play the result” – guest speaker for today. – “don’t play the result – act in the moment.” If you […]

Promethean ActivTable

Promethean announced the ActivTable, a large touch driven table for educational applications. “The ActivTable is aimed towards primary school and special educational needs learners. At 46 inches, the screen provides one of the largest interactive surface areas on the market and allows up to six students to use […]

Speaking at … Share 2012 in Atlanta

In mid-April, I’ll be in Atlanta to speak at and participate in the inaugural Share 2012 conference in the US. I will be presenting two sessions: Keynote on April 25, entitled Success with SharePoint: Earning the Right to Seek Executive Support. Many IT departments have installed SharePoint and […]

RIM BlackBerry Mobile Conferencing 2.0

Research In Motion released version 2 of Mobile Conferencing, an app for simplifying tasks associated with joining and following-up on a conference call: “BlackBerry Mobile Conferencing automates tedious and error prone tasks such as dialing into a conference call that could include multiple main numbers, a conference ID […]

iPad in the Enterprise

MobileBeat says that CEO ego is driving the adoption of iPads in the enterprise: “iPads have taken over the boardroom, and corporate CEOs and their egos are to thank for the somewhat surprising trend. At least, that’s the consensus among a panel of cloud computing and enterprise experts […]