Some thoughts for Chapter 5 of Seamless Teamwork … do you do things like this now, or have a different view? We hold meetings for different purposes, and some of the meetings that we hold for in-person groups don’t make a lot of sense for virtual teams (and […]
Sarah Heal, a Director at Information Leadership Consulting in Christchurch is the presenter this month at the Christchurch SharePoint User Group meeting. She is talking to the topic, Stories from the SharePoint Frontlines. Sarah is the co-author of Flapping to Flying: Transforming IT into Information Leadership … Flapping […]
When Iain Hawke, Country Manager for TOWER Software in New Zealand heard that I was going to be in Canberra today, he suggested that I meet up with Geoff Moore, the General Manager for TOWER Software in Asia Pacific. This was before the announcement that HP had announced […]
When Tony Byrne, Founder of CMSWatch, heard that I had written an independent assessment of the collaboration capabilities of SharePoint, he reached out by email and asked whether I would be willing to review their forthcoming tome on SharePoint. He did warn me, and rightly so, that it […]
Last night (Tuesday March 25) I was the presenter at the March session of the Christchurch SharePoint User Group meeting, presenting on the topic of Evaluating SharePoint for Collaboration. Given that I have blogged all of the previous sessions that I have attended, Mike, one of the attendees, […]
This is Part 5 of the Chaos in Collaboration series. The final question then, now that we have a solid basis of shared conceptual ground between us, is to look at what pitfalls we need to avoid and what steps we need to take on the road to […]
An alternative strategy to going with a completely new platform for post-publication collaboration is to work with your current ECM vendor. For example, assume that you have an Open Text ECM platform at your place of work. Open Text has been around for a long time (16 years), […]
This is Part 4 of the Chaos in Collaboration series. Now that we have talked about the concept of collaboration and the changing locus of collaboration, let’s address how to integrate collaboration tools into your current environment. There are two broad approaches: You can start with something new, […]
This is Part 3 of the Chaos in Collaboration series. Collaborating during the creation phase of the content lifecycle means working together to create great content. It is an explicit activity. You know that you are working together with others because you can either see them directly (they […]
This is Part 2 of the Chaos in Collaboration series. “Collaboration” is a term with a wide degree of applicability, although I have traditionally viewed it narrowly within a project team situation, whereby multiple people are working together to achieve a joint outcome. The team is assembled for […]
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