I’ve been working on one of the chapters for Collaboration Roadmap this week, and I knew that just starting with Word was the wrong approach. I needed something to help me explore the structure and core concepts as I was collating my thoughts – ideally in a visual […]
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 […]
Bill talks about the distractions of the digital workplace, drawing on recent research by Harmon.ie: In the following result summaries the bullets are in the words of the study. Here are some of the work related findings: – Two out of three users will interrupt a group meeting […]
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 […]
Law firm Minter Ellison (with 290 partners and 1,000 legal staff in Asia Pacific and the UK) has chosen a range of Cisco collaboration gear to support its “one firm” strategy. “A key focus for us is to ensure that all our people — regardless of which office […]
SmartDraw published an infographic on the power of visual communication at work. The first pane looks at the role of visuals in meetings: My Comments 1. In accepting the assertion that “visuals make meetings better,” and that by implication they counteract the three problems identified in the problem […]
Meetings are essential to collaboration, but they’re the bane of people’s existence. A couple of academics in 2006 wrote about the problem of attending too many meetings and spending too much time there. Based on earlier research on meetings, the academics did the following: “They devised a pair […]
Webinar – Why Winging It Isn't a Strategy View more presentations from Central Desktop Yesterday I presented at a Central Desktop webinar on the topic of user adoption. The specific focus was on the importance of having a strategy, and not “winging it.” Slides are above. For more […]
My next article is up at The BrainYard: Realizing Collaboration’s Value: Big and Small: “Collaboration generally means working with others to achieve a common outcome, but how much value you can achieve from collaboration depends on where you apply the discipline within an organization. At the micro-scale, you’re […]
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.
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