News Updates (June 2, 2009)

Tungle.me … Tungle added Tungle.me to its service, allowing other people to propose a meeting with you based on your availability. “Imagine an email exchange with a client. He wants to schedule a call to discuss an idea you’ve proposed. You use Tungle, he does not. You also […]

News Updates (May 29, 2009)

Scan to SharePoint … Dark Blue Duck offers an add-on product for SharePoint that enables people to scan paper and documents directly into SharePoint document libraries. “The main Dark Blue Duck Scanning EnablerTM product enhances Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 (MOSS) and Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0 (WSS) adding […]

News Updates (May 27, 2009)

Training Approaches … Tiffany writes about different training approaches and the audiences they appeal to. Eg, “Executives – one-on-one – 15-20 mins in their office, at their desk. Teach them how to approve a workflow. Admin sends it, Executive gets the email, clicks on the link, opens the […]

Seeking Examples: SharePoint for Collaboration

I’m working on a new book for IT professionals about what to do after installing SharePoint. The following are the key topics in the book: – How SharePoint can improve business and work practice – Evaluating SharePoint for collaboration – Using third-party products to round out SharePoint’s collaboration […]

News Updates (May 26, 2009)

Central Desktop Shared Folders … Central Desktop is adding a Shared Folders feature to its online collaborative workspace service. “This will give you the ability to Share Folders ACROSS workspaces, reducing the need to upload redundant content to multiple workspaces …. The Shared Folders feature will be available […]

News Updates (May 25, 2009)

SmartVault and InsynQ … SmartVault announced a partnership with InsynQ, for document management services for hosted QuickBooks users. “The combination will provide InsynQ subscribers an award-winning on-demand document management solution that is uniquely optimized for QuickBooks, allowing users to easily scan and attach documents, e-mails, and notes directly […]

Still Motion Video: Star Wars

My boys have been experimenting with still motion video … you know, take 200 photos with minor changes between them all, and then stitch them all together. They’ve done very well, for a first couple of attempts. Here’s David’s (13 years) Battle on the Bridge: Here is Matthew’s […]

TimeBridge: Overview

I’ve known about the TimeBridge meeting scheduling service since a quiet off-the-record conversation at the Collaborative Technologies Conference in June 2005 in New York, but it’s been a while since I looked at what the company is up to. As with the other meeting scheduling services I’ve written […]

News Updates (May 21, 2009)

Ozzie on the Shift to Cloud Computing … Ray Ozzie recommends that firms get first-hand experience with cloud-based services, by moving email and collaboration there. “Speaking at a JP Morgan event in Boston, Ozzie said that enterprises still don’t trust that they will be provided with the high […]

Doodle: Overview

Doodle is an online polling / survey-type service that can be used for scheduling meetings and events. The basic idea is that you create a poll that specifies when you can meet (days and times), and then you ask other people when they could come to your meeting […]