This is a really good article from BusinessWeek on how businesses are taking adavantage of blogs both for external PR, but also helping people be more productive.
Blogging with the Boss' blessing: “Blogging With The Boss's Blessing
More companies are helping employees to speak freely — and bond with customers “
Although Microsoft released then pulled v6.2 of MSN Messenger (expected early this week) Yahoo is jumping on the update bandwagon. Personally I see the race to add more and more features into IM clients a kind of cold war arms race where each vendor (Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL) are trying to reach a point with…
How amazing this is? IM a virtual travel agent and make travel bookings. The review I read said it was still a little buggy, but I think we're getting to point where intelligent software is meeting powerful computers to make it all come together. Welcome to TravelMessenger – talk to travel
A few failed projects makes a better team You’re looking at a few possible new team members to augment your team. Who would you rather have on your team, someone who always had successful projects or someone who had a few less successful (or even failed) projects? A lot of people would choose someone with the…
Something to keep an eye on. Wainhouse Research has started benchmarking web conferencing. As the new Flash-based services come on line in the next few months I hope they give WebEx and Microsoft a run for their money Online Collaboration Is Where It's At – Online Collaboration and Web Conferencing Breaking News – Kolabora.com
This is part of an excellent article that anyone thinking about collaboration space should read. Bottom line, Microsoft is currently missing the boat and paddling madly to get in the race. The author mentions SharePoint, LiveMeeting (aka PlaceWare) Outlook, NetMeeting, and Groove as parts of a Microsoft collaboration portfolio, but they are just that…parts. For…
Or talk or speech or keynote. “A close-up of a microphone with a group of people in the blurred background” by Kane Reinholdtsen on Unsplash Here’s my trial by fire story when I gave my first important presentation, survived, and used those lessons to make public speaking and teaching one of my favorite things. Almost all my…
