There are so many things that we just don’t know in the realm of collaboration. There is some data available, but it’s a constantly changing landscape. That’s one reason why I find Jane McConnell’s annual Global Intranet Trends report so critical to my work. Jane’s just released the […]
I’ve been in Singapore this week, mainly to present my Masterclass in SharePoint Collaboration and Governance by invitation of PebbleRoad and To The Point. Well, that was yesterday, and what a day it was! – The masterclass was held at the Singapore Grant Hyatt. It was a beautiful […]
A couple of weeks ago, I opened a new foray into organizational collaboration here on my blog. You can read that introductory post (October 13) for the context and my philosophy about organizational collaboration. In this post, I’ll put up the four foundations, and then in subsequent posts […]
Day 1 of the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 is underway. Here’s what I’ve seen announced or discussed during the day. And no, I’m not in attendance. Announcements and Discussion Points From Microsoft’s press release: – The beta of SharePoint Server 2010 will be available in November, along with […]
Messaging News posted my latest blog post: “In his review of my latest book, Thomas Duff wrote that I stayed “firmly on the ‘soft-skill’ ground, which is actually where most implementations live and die.” That got me thinking about the commonly accepted labels that we put on things. […]
When I wrote the 7 Pillars framework in 2005, it was always my intention to write more about the higher level aspects of collaboration in organizations. For attendees at any presentations or workshops when I talked about the 7 Pillars, usually there would be questions like “What about […]
Vendors have developed some incredible tools to assist lawyers with eDiscovery situations. However, I wonder if we could re-direct some of the same technology to support organizational collaboration. For example, consider IBM’s InfoSphere Classification Module. IBM’s web page on InfoSphere opens with this: “InfoSphere Classification Module automates the […]
I attended a presentation in the city yesterday, put on by a Microsoft Business Partner. The partner in question has just created a new position — a person to drive / encourage SharePoint success in client organizations. I’ll call him Fred, but that’s not his name. So Fred’s […]
I took a quick look at Mobile Entree this afternoon … months after first hearing about it. Mobile Entree provides a way for SharePoint developers to extend SharePoint capabilities to end users via mobile devices. As I wrote in my recent Messaging News article (see Mobile and Wireless […]
Microsoft is hosting the SharePoint Conference 2009 in Las Vegas in a few weeks … and I’m not going. The details about the next edition of SharePoint will finally be made public … and given my assessment of SharePoint 2007 for collaboration, I’m keenly interested to see what’s […]
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