Posts Tagged ‘Collaboration’

SharePoint 2010 offers a new way of looking at the world, the Activity Feed (a.k.a the “My Newsfeed” section of your My Site). There seems to be plenty of confusion on what exactly is tracked in your Activity Feed, who sees what, and when it shows up on the site.

First things first…the Activity Feed works on a timer job, one of many jobs that make up the User Profile Service Application (Service Applications have replaced the SSP from MOSS 2007). This job can be configured to run on any schedule you choose. SharePoint defaults to hourly, but this can changed easily enough. Every time the job runs, a crawler goes out, scans the farm, aggregates recently submitted activities and shoves them into their own database. Once inside the Activity Feed database, the activity is now available on your My Newsfeed (and via the Activity Feed APIs via the SharePoint Object Model…more on that in a future post).

For a long time, collaboration and cooperation have meant the same thing to me. Actually, I use word ‘cooperation’ more often when talking about teamwork. Today I read an article called ‘Teamwork in Agile’ written by Bal Mahale. I realized after reading it that collaboration and cooperation are totally different. Here is Bal’s explaination: People […]

Every time I’m forced to use a collaboration tool I don’t like as much as my favorite one, I realize how important they are to my productivity. Once you use a product that was designed to be as simple as possible and to do the most important things well, you really don’t want to go back to the one that makes you take 5 or 6 steps to do something you can do in one click. I won’t name names of those that I don’t like, but here’s a roundup of collaboration tools that make my life easier.

Every time I’m forced to use a collaboration tool I don’t like as much as my favorite one, I realize how important they are to my productivity. Once you use a product that was designed to be as simple as possible and to do the most important things well, you really don’t want to go back to the one that makes you take 5 or 6 steps to do something you can do in one click. I won’t name names of those that I don’t like, but here’s a roundup of collaboration tools that make my life easier.

I was recently asked by IBM if we have integrated WebSphere Commerce and Lotus Connections. I don’t believe to date we have done this but it really got me thinking as to how exactly we would do it. Currently I have been leading an effort where we are integrating Commerce with a traditional J2EE / […]

Social business has revolutionized the health care industry. Both patients and hospitals are moving into the social space via traditional and healthcare specific collaboration communities. Healthcare organizations are met with a bevy of challenges when attempting to balance the benefits of adopting a social strategy with security and investment concerns. On Thursday, February 24th at […]

David Jones put me onto this article by Bex Huff on collaboration.   I think he and Clay Shirky who he references have gotten it right. For example… I want you to imagine that a little old lady is walking up to you on the street. She makes direct eye contact, and gestures that she […]

Perficient is pleased to announce the acquisition of speakTECH, an interactive design firm and Microsoft National Systems Integrator partner. “speakTECH’s interactive design, social media and collaboration consulting capabilities are highly complementary to several of Perficient’s existing focus areas,” said Kathy Henely, Perficient’s chief operating officer. “We see opportunity to introduce speakTECH’s offerings to our current […]

For most people who look at IBM’s social software product, one of the first questions asked is, “How can I customize this to fit my needs?”  Usually those questions focus on branding, adding in extra top level navigation, federating the search, and adding in widgets on the home and other pages.  IBM released a white […]

More and more, I am reading great articles on Social Collaboration within the enterprise.  Not only in tech-driven websites like CIO.com and Mashable.com but here is a recent article, one of many recently, in Forbes.com about Enterprise Collaboration. In this interview, Jeff Schick of IBM explains some core components of collaboration: knowledge management, process discovery […]

Mike Porter, Principal of Portal Solutions and frequent blogger on this portal solutions blog, was interviewed at IBM Impact 2010 last month. He attended many sessions on cloud, collaboration and portals and presents some of most compelling projects and trends discussed at the influential IBM conference this year. Perficient also produced quite a bit of […]

“Social media” and “social networks” are all the buzz right now, but for good reason, especially in conversations about enterprise portals and collaboration. Many experts are addressing how social media & networking impacts enterprise system installations and strategy. Here are just a few recent articles on the topic: Successful social CRM looks back to get […]