Gmail Has Potential as Enterprise Platform

Citrix is launching a desktop-based conferencing application. The features sound good, like connecting through IM and e-mail, which Convoq ASAP can do too. So beyond interface and features I expect the determing factor will be price. I'll post updates here when a trial is available. COMPUTERWORLD HONG KONG : Web conferencing meets the desktop

Beyond the fact that Google is really trying to go beyond search, what I think is interesting is the ability to automatically publish a webfeed (Atom format) Excellent marriage of old (e-mail) and new (webfeed). Free Publishing Platform For Mailing And Discussion Lists: Google Groups 2 – RG News

Beyond the fact that Boeing is investing so heavily in collaboration technologies, I think the underlying philosophy in the quotes below show that some businesses are recognizing that collaboration technologies fuel the way people work now. Video system to speed 7E7 work by Molly McMillin (The Wichita Eagle, July 4, 2004), says that “Collaboration rooms”…

Ah brainstorming. Like Amy says in her Artistic Aside post, brainstorming is often challenging and uncomfortable. I think the irony is for me that great ideas very often come from brainstorming sessions, but often the sessions are tortuous or worse, the great ideas are lost in the sea of corporate bureaucracy. Amy has two great…

Wow, this is a really fresh approach to Knowledge Management (KM), think about how people actually work, what their roles are, and how that helps the organizations. According to the book The Hidden Power of Social Networks: Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in Organizations (Harvard Business School Press, June 2004) There are a few…

Many minds collaborating better than one brilliant person solo…good arguements for collaboration software I think… Instead of looking to a single person for the right answers, companies need to recognize a simple truth: Under the right conditions, groups are smarter than the smartest person within them. We often think of groups and crowds as stupid,…