JupiterMedia's Intranet Journal just announced its readers' choices for product of the year in five categories surrounding intra-company communication and workflow. Google prevailed in two categories, being chosen as both the year's best Semantic Tool and the best Enterprise Search Tool. Blogger beat out...
Two years ago, it was suggested to me that I submit the stacks and stacks of tattered yellow and white legal pads that had served as my social calendar for the better part of five years to be part of an exhibit called Instant Messaging: An exhibition of the debris...
Brainstorming is often bandied about as the very apex of effective teamwork. However, in a recent survey conducted by BNET and Harris Interactive, only 45 percent of teams reported doing so on a frequent basis, though a full 92 percent do so at least occasionally. Results, as...
On the heels of a Basex report, which pointed to the role of unified communications and other aspects of collaboration in creating an information overload time suck in 2007, we are told now by eWeek that unified communications and collaboration itself are two of the top corporate time savers for...
Just as young consultants are drawn to Katzenbach Partners by the promise of a larger and more fluid role, big-name clients like Aetna and Pfizer come to the firm knowing that they too will be joining forces to attack the challenge at hand. "We have a...
In hotels, conference centers and exhibition halls all over the world, people just like us conduct summits and symposia to discuss what we will be doing in the next five years. Free buffets are consumed, PowerPoint presentations endured and conclusions drawn. Often these conclusions are a bit overstated, more rarely...
The rise of collaboration technology is often associated with the increase in large, global corporations. In fact, most people view tools like voice-over-IP, web conferencing and collaboration software as geared for larger firms. We usually see the commercials with people in large offices conferencing with their counterparts in India, Japan...
IDG News Service reports that Adobe is including hosted collaboration tools in its latest Web and desktop application development platforms. The company unveiled the new services last Tuesday at its AdobeMAX 2007 conference in Chicago. The new functionality will allow developers to weave tools like voice-over-IP and messaging into rich...
