As the gear we carry to do our work on the go gets smaller and lighter, the bags we need to carry the gear around can also get smaller and lighter. I really like laptop and gear bags – as my office credenza can attest – so I […]
Accellion expanded beyond its secure file transfer heritage with the release of Enterprise Secure Collaboration for creating workspaces of related files for collaboration: “Accellion today announced it is expanding beyond enterprise secure file transfer to enable enterprise secure collaboration. With the introduction of Accellion Secure Collaboration and Accellion […]
Versly announced itself to the world and opened up a private beta. The company says the following about its new service: – “Follow relevant conversations and tasks right from within Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, email, and mobile devices.“ – “Versly syncs your docs to the cloud so the […]
Day-Timer offers a list of 15 ways to save time – with tips around reducing clutter, planning ahead, clear priorities and more. Here’s tips 11 and 12: “11. It has been said that the two-letter word no is the single most effective time management tool there is. 12. […]
Nicholas provides a s nap shot of what it means to be refreshingly different: “2. Hotel rooms where the air-con, wifi and lighting are easy to use 3. Business phone lines without convoluted menu-driven interactions 4. Airport security with a smile 5. Healthy fast-food 6. Shops which open […]
I’m heading to Auckland for a client workshop in a couple of weeks, and have some meeting times available on Tuesday April 19. My interests are in three main areas: – Developing a strategy for collaboration approaches and tools at work. – Creating an approach to governing collaboration […]
It’s time to head for home – my “round the world in 8 days” trip is 18 hours off being completed. Apart from dreadful sleeping patterns, it’s all gone great. – It was fantastic to be in London, as I’ve already said. Meeting clients, colleagues, and friends there […]
I arrived on Thursday afternoon to a very warm 27 degrees in San Francisco. The United flight from London to here went smoothly for the most parts, interspersed with a few shocking bumps now and then. I had an aisle seat on the exit row, so lots of […]
Oscar does a great job of pulling together recent research on the “paperless office” (yeah right): “Our production and consumption of paper is destructive to both our environment and humanity. Yet, alongside with the digitization of information we continue to produce and consume more and more paper. The […]
Larry talks about the power of non-task and personal relationships as a contributor to the performance of distributed teams: “Most managers know about the water cooler effect. However, not enough understand the meaning of the concept and how it relates to performance and collaboration. People thinking about how […]
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