Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Report (December 17, 2007)

The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams

• 10 tips to help employees collaborate: (1) choose the right tools, (2) communicate enough, but not too much, and more. CIO

The Technology Trends of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams

• Prism and Fluid are new tools that can turn Web applications into pseudo-desktop applications. jkontherun


• ActionThis released an update to its hosted action management service. ActionThis


• ActionThis released its client for Outlook 2003. ActionThis


• Microsoft on Office Communications Server: more good stuff to come. InformationWeek


• Apple is working to improve the iPhone in its support of Microsoft Exchange. AppleInsider


• Telecom New Zealand has finally given in, and is getting the BlackBerry. Hell's frozen over. NZHerald


• 2008 is the year for formal collaboration technology strategies, according to Forrester. "Of 1,017 IT decision makers in North America and Europe surveyed, 15 percent identified implementing a collaboration strategy as a "critical priority" and 34 percent deemed it a "priority." A third, 33 percent, said collaboration "was not a priority" while 17 percent it was "not on our agenda" altogether." CIO


• "We got $12 million in funding". NewsGator


• Version 2.0 of Zoho Show is out. Zoho


• JetBlue is using SharePoint (Portal Server, though) for document management and regulatory compliance. Peter Ward


• Peter, the CEO of Collanos, is now also the COO of beteo, another Swiss startup. Both companies will remain separate entities. Collanos

Insights on Being Productive and Effective as an Individual

• How you practice is how you should play. Jason Womack


• Declutter your mind ... with 15 ideas on how to do so. ZenHabits

Other Noteworthy Insights

• Lenovo has started using forum software to encourage the sharing of technical concerns and fixes among users. Churbuck


• Thanks to the Web, there is life after Microsoft Word. NYTimes


• There's too much hype in the technology market. Tom Davenport