Every team needs to have a driving reason for being, for existing, for working as a team (“being a team” isn’t good enough). It’s the thing that pulls people together, that enables them to see beyond the major conflicts, the petty disagreements, the slog and the hard times […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams John has been reading a new book for lawyers on Collaboration Tools and Technologies. The point he really likes: “The book is a goldmine of concrete suggestions – many of which don’t involve a lot of investment, but making […]
On April 9, 2008 I had the privilege of working with the teachers of IT in Melbourne on supporting virtual teams through technology. Here are some links to go with my prepared comments. Have a look here at my bio. Lecture: Keys to Virtual Team Performance Here’s my […]
The March-April 2008 edition of Messaging News is out, and my article for this edition is entitled Secure Document Collaboration Approaches. “When we need to share documents with other people, our default approach is to open email, start a new message, attach the document and hit send. We […]
When Tony Byrne, Founder of CMSWatch, heard that I had written an independent assessment of the collaboration capabilities of SharePoint, he reached out by email and asked whether I would be willing to review their forthcoming tome on SharePoint. He did warn me, and rightly so, that it […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Darren looks at how the available of more advanced collaboration tools may reduce email usage and volume over time, and suggests that the new Sametime Advanced chat rooms have something great to offer Lotus shops in this regards. “I’m […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Chuck suggest that companies already “get” collaboration, and have a lot invested in collaboration (conference rooms, audio and video conferencing, and email). Rather than positioning social media collaboration tools as competing with these, Chuck suggests drawing out the complementary […]
On April 8 and 9 I visited Sydney and Canberra to talk about SharePoint with members of the Intranet Leadership Forum. Here are some links to go with my prepared comments. The Business Side of SharePoint What is SharePoint? – How Microsoft Describes SharePoint … see Microsoft on […]
The Dark Knight, the sequel to Batman Begins, is coming later in the year, and I happened on the movie trailer today. It looks great … but I have one great sadness with the movie: I won’t be able to compare notes with Marc Orchant, a rabid Batman […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Andy outlines a case for using SightSpeed for video conferencing for executives and others that are on the go continually. “Let me take this a step further, for being a all star on the conference circuit means that you […]
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