One of the questions facing organizations with an established collaboration technology infrastructure like Notes and Domino is how they encourage new hires to embrace the established tooling for business success. Young graduates joining the organization won’t generally have had exposure to Notes and Domino, but will have seen […]
Why do Enterprise 2.0 proponents write off almost two decades of history and say their stuff is so new and better than what’s come before? I … just … don’t … get … it. Eg. Interview with Andrew McAfee, by Kathleen Gilroy Andew McAfee on enterprise 2.0: Enterprise […]
Email is a great communication tool that is widely available, frequently used, and understood by “everyone”. It has some inherent problems, however, and leads to many more. This is one of a series of posts trying to unpack those problems, with an eye to designing better tools or […]
Earlier this week, Rod Boothby (who recently left Ernst & Young to take a role at the startup Teqlo) published a lengthy article for CEOs on How to use Blogs in the Workplace. Given my interest in aligning business and enterprise collaboration needs with appropriate collaboration technologies, this […]
In one of my penultimate think pieces last year I evaluated 11 issues that people claimed were wrong with email, concluding that only two or three were actually related to the technology of email per se; the remainder were issues of bad email practice by us the people. […]
One of my ongoing interests in the collaboration technology space is how to improve the technology of shared workspaces across vendors so that people have an easier job of adopting and using them. In today’s environment, people are likely to have to use multiple products or services that […]
There has been a good debate in the blogspace during the previous 3-4 months regarding the good and bad of email as a collaboration tool, and I’ve stayed out of it until today. My intention in this post is to review some of the arguments that have been […]
Andrew McAfee, an Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School recently opined on The 9X Email Problem. In the melting pot were some thoughts from a marketing research seminar on consumer product adoption failure, groupware vs. Enterprise 2.0 and email vs. Enterprise 2.0, leading through to a call-to-action […]
When I was in California in December last year for the When 2.0 conference, I had the good fortune to meet Oren Sreebny; I was introduced to him by the CalConnect people, and I’ve tracked his blog ever since. Oren gets to attend many more conferences that I, […]
Last night I received this text from Vodafone NZ on my BlackBerry: Sep 28, 2006 3:16:53 PM Upgrade FREE to the powerful new Blackberry Internet Email service at http://www.vodafone.co.nz/myblackberry. Now U can surf the web, manage 10 email accounts & more! I *know* that BlackBerry service is NZ$35 […]
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