Lowe’s, a major home improvement chain in the United States, implemented Lotus Connections in 2010 to support an enterprise collaboration strategy. Andy Carusone is the internal director in-charge of the strategy, and while he has briefed me off-the-record on the initiative, I haven’t seen anything public. Susan recently […]
Conference calls are a fact of life, but getting dialed in on-time and having access to the right call in details and passcode information can be a challenge. Plantronics have an answer for this: the InstantMeeting app for mobile devices (iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry; and Outlook) that watches […]
Ed Brill from IBM shared an update on IBM’s mobile strategy for 2011 and beyond: “About a year ago, I declared that IBM had turned the corner from follower to leader in the mobile space. I was mocked for the statement, but not only do I stand by […]
Earlier this week, Socialtext released Socialtext 5.0, the next edition of its enterprise collaboration platform. Key features: – A visual dashboard to provide the starting page for the “social intranet,” with customization and tailoring options for the individual. – Profile pages for people that describe skills and interests, […]
Last week I presented at two seminars – one in Sydney, and one in Melbourne. The topic was The Equation of Collaboration, and the two events were hosted by Professional Advantage. I spoke about collaboration value, the roadmap to collaboration, engagement and user adoption, and the practices of […]
Global360 is running its SharePoint Survey for Fall 2011: “It is time again for our semi-annual SharePoint Survey! As SharePoint quickly evolves into a platform for delivering tailored business applications, it is important that we can evaluate the rapidly developing trends and features of the SharePoint landscape today. […]
Posterous introduced Posterous Spaces, a new online place for groups and teams. “Whether you want to create a public blog, a private place to share family vacation photos or start a group for your classmates to stay in touch, you can create a Space for it. Adding members […]
Mary Jo Foley wrote in March that Microsoft says it is adding 20,000 new SharePoint users a day: “Microsoft has been adding 20,000 SharePoint users per day, every day for the last five years, according to Jared Spataro, Director of SharePoint product management. That means 7.3 million new […]
Vizit released Version 4.0 of its SharePoint add-on product. The feature that stood out to me is “Social Exchange” (sorry, I dislike second-letter capitalization in product names): “With Vizit 4.0 the company also introduced Social eXchange (SX). Vizit Social eXchange integrates social conversations with SharePoint content, workflow, records […]
Google announced the release of new offline capabilities for Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Docs: “Gmail offline will be available today, and offline for Google Calendar and Google Docs will be rolling out over the next week, starting today. Gmail Offline is a Chrome Web Store app that’s […]
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