Building blocks of knowledge management

An interesting development in the VPN market. VPNs are interesting beasts. I'd have a love-hate relationship with them for a while now. The last one I worked with was decent, but being connected to it brought my surfing to crawl and wreaked havok with my other e-mail apps. This is primarily why I think secure…

The Internet was designed as a collaboration tool and we've come a long way since the first website was launched. E-mail has also always been a tool for collaboration, but inboxes are so cluttered with spam and other messages that many pundits are even claiming e-mail's days are numbered. How, then, can you collaborate with…

This is a test of the new BlogJet This… extension for FireFox. The extention is at this blog: http://dotavery.com/blog/archive/2004/07/24/1723.aspx BlogJet weblog :: Main Page We need your help. We're seeking someone who can write an extension for Mozilla similar to “BlogJet This!” button for Internet Explorer (it can be right-click menu item, not button). I…

A very interesting article by Peter Coffee. It has me thinking about what the next generation of messaging will look like. It's hard to imagine in someways, but think about how you get the direct phone line of a person at a given company. Generally you get this information when you receive a business card…

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”…

If you write for the web read this article. Ms Dwyer makes excellent points (many of which I am going to apply to my redesigned site soon), the only one I am waffling on is writing in first and second person. Common business practice is to write in the third person for things like “Larix…