Silverlight, Microsoft’s latest piece of bloatware, is here to compete with Flash, a slick, multi-platform media delivery platform. Just to convince you that it is needed (why, oh, why, would we need another plugin), it will bomb your machine mercilessly. Unless, of course, it is running Windoz… Typical Microsoft.
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At a time when Web 2.0 and wonderful technologies such as Flash, Air, AJAX, social business, innovation hubs, user-centric workspaces, and much, much more, are making the web into the creative fertile ground of a small, but quickly growing garden, with engaging and absorbing delivery strategies combining and evolving, always testing the future, here come the bottom-feeders (?). SharePoint the platform of the future? It surely is being touted as a thing of the past…
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If you feed this blog’s URL into http://wordle.net, you get a word map (where size indicates frequency of words in the page, not tags) that looks just like this:
Word map for this URL
This has to be one of the finest anecdotes I have heard in a long time. Perhaps everybody knows it, but nonetheless it’s excellent.
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A friend asked the question as she started the process of exploring her requirements for collaboration products, which she will use to support a social networking initiative she is about to get going.
Like many other practitioners before her, Lisa found that when it comes to enterprise collaboration, there is a huge difference between wanting to solve a problem and knowing what specific product features are relevant to your needs. In other words, if you want, say, “to empower collaboration in order to create alignment between highly distributed teams in order to improve the product cycle”, how does MySite functionality help you? If you want “to increase intimacy between partners and internal stakeholders”, is that something a blog, a wiki or a forum will produce? How relevant is a forms server to collaboration?
Click to continue reading “What are the basic elements of Enterprise Collaboration?”
Sorry, I got targeted for spam by some moron, and in the process of deleting the 200 or so junk comments y deleted all previous VALID comments. At some point I’ll recover them from backup, but I am very busy right now.
My apologies
Memory lane on enterprise collaboration: many years went by, buzz-words getting old and refreshed, problems have not changed much: a hierarchical corporate culture of control and power
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