Atlassian announced some of the upcoming features in the next version of Confluence, its enterprise wiki and collaboration tool. New capabilities include: – a new and simpler Wiki editor, including better macro capabilities. – auto-formatting of wiki markup, to speed writing and editing. – @mentions (like in Twitter […]
Last year I really enjoyed attending and speaking at Share 2010, the SharePoint conference for business users. This year the conference is happening again, and I’m heading back to Sydney to participate. The conference is on November 28-30, and I will be running a one-day post-conference workshop on […]
A couple of weeks ago, The BrainYard posted an article I wrote entitled Get Collaborators to ‘Touch and Feel’ Unstructured Data: “I don’t want to see your face!” doesn’t sound like the most collaborative way to talk to someone, but it just might be. If you’re stuck in […]
Patti wrote (in 2001) about the use of VAX Notes at Digital Equipment: Imagine. You work in a global high-tech company with more than 100,000 people. Research and product development organisations are distributed around the world, as are the sales, marketing, and technical support groups that interface with […]
New Zealand’s Stuff website asks whether hot-desking is hot or not?: “Once upon a time, an employee’s desk was a home away from home. Adorned with paraphernalia of hobbies and interests and obligatory family photos, it was as much a statement of identity as it was a place […]
Moxie Software added better support for mobile devices to Customer Spaces, a customer service application: Moxie Software™ is extending its powerful Knowledgebase that crosses all channels of communication to mobile platforms. Moxie Software’s Knowledgebase is now optimized for Apple’s iPad and iPhone, as well as for Android and […]
OffBureau is a new online collaborative workspace. It’s current in beta. Key capabilities: – Projects are assigned their own workspace. – Uses folders and subfolders. – Browser based access. – Recent changes in workspaces are bubbled to the home page for an individual.
In McKinsey’s 2008 report, Building the Web 2.0 Enterprise, Exhibit 5 correlates perceived barriers to success with current rates of satisfaction with Web 2.0 tools in the enterprise: (Click for a larger image) My Comments 1. What jumps out to me is this: where dissatisfaction levels are the […]
Dan ran some workshops in New Zealand recently to investigate whether email is killing collaboration: “There’s a lot of talk about alternatives to email. But if you look at people on their computers, most of the time they’re not using Web 2 or Enterprise 2. They’re using email. […]
In my book, User Adoption Strategies, I show a four stage approach to gaining adoption of new approaches and new ways of working. Stage 1 is “Winning Attention,” with the intent being to show why a target group should be interested. There are various strategies that can be […]
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