Nice review piece. There is certainly a building buzz around these technologies. As computer speeds and bandwidth improves I think we'll all be living in a William Gibson novel soon. InfoWorld: Web conferencing meets the desktop: April 30, 2004: By Cathleen Moore : APPLICATION_DEVELOPMENT : APPLICATIONS : DATA_MANAGEMENT : PLATFORMS : STORAGE: “Web conferencing has…
From Shared Spaces Consulting… I've been shifting house and office for the past week, but am 'back in the saddle' today. Here's what's up in the world of shared spaces: Microsoft released a connector that enables Lotus Notes users to schedule and launch conferences in Microsoft Live Meeting 2003 (previously PlaceWare). Comment: definitely a good…
Talk about an understatement. Six Degrees looks like a fabulous program! Will I try it? Probably so, pretty soon. If you live and die by e-mail, Six Degrees looks like it can save you the hassle of having to file, re-file, and find e-mails. Select an e-mail, a person, or a file and all the…
Not only disasters, but planning telework for major disruptions like strikes and large public events. Out here the 2010 winter games are coming. I hope that by 2007 companies have made real progress in letting people telecommute. OPM Finds Agencies Are Doing Better at Preparing for the Worst by Stephen Barr (Washington Post, April 30,…
Collaboration and telework isn't about technology. Technology enables people to telecommute, but there have to be processes in place and a willingness and perceived value in picking up the phone, IMing, e-mailing, blogging, to connect with all the people in the team or group. If part of the group decides not to bother anymore, the…
Since I've started this blog at Blogger.com, owned of course by Google, they offered users here GMail accounts. Curious, I accepted. The advertising part is disturbing, but what I'm really interested in is the concept of not throwing much away and using powerful search to find your e-mail later. So if you'd like to e-mail…
