Mark Polly recently posted an overview on SharePoint custom development with some interesting views from Forrester about the risks of custom development. While I don’t completely disagree with what Forrester says, I think I’m a little less afraid of custom development than those at Forrester. Here’s what I believe regarding custom development on any platform: […]
Posts Tagged ‘Collaboration’
Helping Sick Kids Get Better With Healthcare Gamification
During the Connected Health conference last month there were a lot of great conversations around enabling patients around their health. One particular panel on the psychology of game mechanics asked an important question about children and teenagers and their health: Can young people learn and adopt healthy behavior skills that they continue to use into […]
Connected Health Symposium 2011: Living in the Clouds
In the book As The Future Catches You, Juan Enriquez notes that “in a knowledge economy, you can work at your desk, in your home, in a hotel, or in a plane.” As a person that operates in just that manner, there are real concerns not about just the connectivity to accomplish that mode of […]
Understanding How to Create a Successful Social Intranet: 3 Tips for Optimizing Collaboration
Intranets have long been the standard for sharing secure information within an organization, but they can be challenging to manage, especially when left to one person or group, and consequently, the information could become stale or employee involvement low. So how do we make sure our intranet is valuable and the investment maximized? By adding […]
2011 Connected Health Symposium: Meeting Patients Half Way Reduces Costs
Here at the Connected Health Symposium the showroom floor is atwitter with conversations around patient engagement. Everyone is discussing ways to best engage patients and, not surprisingly, what the price tag of such ambitious efforts will amount to. I am confronted with enthusiastic smiles when I point to data that shows that engaging patients actually […]
Connected Health 2011: Sending Your Avatar to the Doctor Instead of You
The rapidly shifting role of patients within the care model has resulted in demand for easier access to healthcare professionals. Innovations in social media and collaborative technologies provide healthcare organizations with the ability to disperse information quickly and appeal to individuals who are seeking cost-effective healthcare services, especially in remote or rural communities. There are […]
What Makes a Great Healthcare Portal
When somebody says “Healthcare Portal”, what does that mean to you? Unfortunately the word portal has been used so broadly that it generally is confusing. Here are examples of how the word portal is used in various contexts: In the new federal healthcare law, the government is mandating that a health exchange portal be created. […]
Connected Health Symposium 2011 Trend Watch
The 2011 Connected Health Symposium is only days away. Our team will be in Boston for the October 20-21 event. This is an exciting time for patient engagement. We are witnessing a transformation in the role of the patient within the care model. This event promises to be a great opportunity to share innovative ideas […]
Connections Administration Toolkit
IBM Connections has consistently grown with the market place but similarly with people who look at Sametime 8.5.x with some weariness they look at Connections as an administration nightmare. It can be if you are not familiar with Websphere Application Server (WAS) and some command line trickery. That has been solved by the TimeToAct group. […]
Forrester's SharePoint Survey
Rob Klopowitz and John Rymer recently released a report at Forrester titled SharePoint Adoption: Content and Collaboration is Just the Start. For this report the authors surveyed 510 IT professionals about their experiences with SharePoint. There are some very interesting findings I will highlight below. The core values of SharePoint are: Managing unstructured content like […]
Forrester’s SharePoint Survey
Rob Klopowitz and John Rymer recently released a report at Forrester titled SharePoint Adoption: Content and Collaboration is Just the Start. For this report the authors surveyed 510 IT professionals about their experiences with SharePoint. There are some very interesting findings I will highlight below. The core values of SharePoint are: Managing unstructured content like […]
Best Practices with JQuery and Sharepoint
I heard Eric Harlan and Mark Rackley talk about best practices with JQuery and Sharepoint JQuery Overview What It’s that client side middle tier thing It’s a Javascript utility library available at JQuery.com Lots of third parties libraries are available to enhance your sites Why Using it will improve your user experience You don’t have […]