I’m speaking next month to a group of Information Management professionals in New Zealand on the topic “The Key to Collaboration without Chaos”. I have a little giggle every time I think of the title (collaboration without chaos, c’mon!). Perhaps I should start the presentation by saying that […]
GroupSwim is a provider of a hosted software solution for creating intelligent communities. The software provides a place for people to author content in community-centric discussion forums, and is a reaction to document-centric collaboration software. Multiple communities can be created within a given GroupSwim account. That means that […]
The February 2008 edition of Messaging News is out, and my article for this edition is entitled Investing in Collaboration Tools. “It is a huge responsibility to be charged with articulating and implementing a collaboration strategy for an organization. Fundamentally, it requires structuring the way that people interact […]
Bill Gates kicked off the SharePoint Conference in Seattle highlighting the growth and success of SharePoint: “Breaking the milestone of 100 million licenses sold and surpassing sales of $1 billion this year, SharePoint is helping customers solve their most pressing information management needs.“ Let’s remember something here: Given […]
Last week Ian posted a thoughtful reaction to my assertion that “SharePoint calendars are essentially useless for team collaboration”. His main points that stuck out to me were: SharePoint calendars are not trying to replace a user’s personal calendar. If you want to have an item from a […]
As a gadgeteer, I am always interested in seeing what’s new in the world of gadgets. The new HP iPAQ 210 Enterprise Handheld has caught my attention. I have owned a few iPAQs, and although there were problems with stability, the idea of being able to have a […]
The benefit of a distilled and objective framework for thinking about team collaboration, is that once you have investigated the facts of how a vendor’s product or service works, you can then analyze where the identified gaps can be filled with add-on products and services. These types of […]
Ian Morrish, a Senior Consultant for SharePoint at Microsoft New Zealand has posted three session abstracts for the upcoming Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Seattle. These three sessions are being presented by customers using SharePoint, and are about their use of SharePoint for collaboration. Ian says that: “SharePoint and […]
Kevin McLaughlin from ChannelWeb and I chatted last week about my SharePoint 7 Pillars paper, and he wrote up our discussion in an article entitled Study Takes Aim at SharePoint’s Shortcomings. As he should have done, Kevin sought comments from others, and Andrew Brust, Chief of New Technology […]
It’s been some months since I have written about the book, and needless to say, much has taken place. The sad (the death of my friend Marc Orchant), the happy (the birth of Elizabeth, my 8th child), as less as all of those things which requires a certain […]
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