Posts Tagged ‘Sharing’

For the entire history of the portal, when someone asked, “When should I use a portal instead of a content management system?”, the answer was easy.  When you have to login, surface applications, personalize the experience, and otherwise do more than simple content display, then use a portal.  However, that’s been changing of late.  This […]

I just read a great post on the Collaboration Soapbox blog by Louis Richardson titled “How to get your head out of your inbox“.  In the article Richardson explains how he is using social networking tools to reduce the amount of email he receives.  The basic concept is this:  when you get a piece of […]

In a previous post, I talked about Gartners prediction of a “seismic shift” in the portal market.  In one of the last session of the Gartner Portal, Content & Collaboration 2011 Summit, Gene Phifer spoke about the future of portals.  Gene is convinced that the portal market (and mashup market) will be “subsumed” by a […]

In the winter issue of MIT Sloan Management Review, Julian Birkinshaw, Cyril Bouquet and J.-L. Barsoux wrote  a great article on the 5 Myths of Innovation.  Innovation, collaboration and Web 2.0 are getting more traction these days and they hit some nice points based on research of leading company over many years.  Many of these I […]

So I recently blogged on a white paper by Martijn Linssen.  I got the chance last night to read it more in depth and thought I would post my thoughts on where I agree and don’t agree with his views on a Social Business Revolution………or lack thereof. Martijn makes some good points We need a […]

Martijn Lessnen has a 24 page whitepaper out on the Social Business Revolution.  He draws out a fair number of good points about the difference between social media, social networks, and social business. He also dives into the people who are affected……or not affected by social business tools.  I like the points he makes about […]

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.