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With the digital workplace, are intranets obsolete? Not exactly. Find out what to expect from internet technology now and in the future.
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“It’s the journey, not the destination.” This well known cliché holds true for enterprise social maturity. In the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy and her friends traveled the yellow brick road believing the wizard would fix all their problems.
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Put yourself in the office where teamwork and collaboration are defaults and keeping track of things — like who’s doing what, where’d you put that, when are you going to finish your part so that I can do mine, what’s the priority — becomes a nightmare.
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Even within Microsoft that strategy is a work in progress, and the process by which the SharePoint team is building continues to evolve.
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The 10:30 am slot on day two of SharePoint Conference 2014: Many conference goers were already bleary eyed from a combination of “networking” and jetlag but the packed room held an air of anticipation.
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Inbox Document Management One coworker recently answered, “if it’s really important, put the subject line in all caps.” I asked around to find how other people alter tools to help better collaborate. It turns out people have been using their email inboxes in some fascinating ways.
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Disruption can be seen as a force for good or evil. On the one hand the business world celebrates the disruptive effects new social business technologies are having on the status quo -- in everything from marketing and customer service to recruitment and sales.
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Following up on my last post about collaboration in the enterprise, it makes sense to explore collaboration technologies in depth.
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Hoping to attract customers to its new marketing collaboration tools, Volerro today launched a free interactive tool called ReVu.Me that allows business teams to discuss and annotate print documents, videos, photos and more in real time in the cloud. ReVu.Me is available to anyone as a stand-alone service.
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Any discussion about collaboration that focuses entirely on the "knowledge worker" risks leaving a lot of employees out of the conversation. The Knowledge Worker Wikipedia gives a definition of knowledge workers, from which I will copy a quick snippet: What differentiates knowledge work from other forms of work is its primary
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Let's face it: Getting people's attention, getting time on their calendar, getting them on the phone, getting people to collaborate on anything is like herding cats.
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A couple of months ago, I shared a vision where all information was at our fingertips. It's a nice vision for the future of work but we have a more immediate problem: How do I collaborate with Jed in Toledo? There have been a lot of solutions proposed.
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Despite all efforts to trump it or get rid of it altogether in favor of other noble concepts like cooperation, the hard truth is that collaboration has always been here. And it will continue to be here for many years to come. It's a human trait.
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The gateway drug to enterprise information silos We were all warned about the danger of gateway drugs. Just one moment of indiscretion using Bad Thing X would undoubtedly lead you into a lifetime of abuse of Bad Thing Y, which would eventually ruin your life.
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