Collaboration Tools

Introducing Collaboration Tools? Three Required Personas for Success

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ November 17, 2011 ⋅ One comment

When introducing collaboration tools to an organization – creating the corporate intranet, defining project sites in Sharepoint, etc. – there are multiple skills you must master – well, at least get better at. You need to capture the ideas and communicate the data such that your target reader understands what you are trying to convey [...]

Collaboration “in the Wild”: Some Observations

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ November 15, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

An Enterprise 2.0 dream scenario: implementing a complex project across multiple sites, in two different time zones, with a large team (well over 100). The team was reasonably savvy with collaboration tools; core team members were quite comfortable with Instant Messaging, and we have been relying on SharePoint for many months. A centralized, coordinated document [...]

Real Business Users and SharePoint

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ July 14, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Introducing buzzword-compliant technology like a wiki, or integrated collaboration spaces like SharePoint, will typically go well with a motivated audience like your internal IT department. But if you really want to understand how this stuff works, try it with “real people” – line employees in sales and marketing, operations, and finance. Sure, you’ve heard complaints [...]

Notes from SAPPHIRE 09

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ May 16, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Yesterday at work was “catch-up day” from a week at SAPPHIRE 2009, the annual user conference for SAP. As with the JDA/Manugistics conference earlier this year, there were concerns that attendance was going to be low, because so many companies are limiting travel expense. At the conference, I did hear that attendance was only was [...]

Is SharePoint WSS dangerous to SharePoint contractors?

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ February 5, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Firing Up Internal Opportunity It was true last year, but even more so now; SharePoint is very important for corporate IT, both strategically (medium- and long-term) and tactically (short-term). Sure, it’s a terrific way to iterate on collaboration, internal portals, document management, etc. – “enabling innovation” in every buzzword-compliant sense. But there is solid benefit [...]

The Innovation Generation – Communication Styles

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ April 1, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

I’ve seen many articles in recent weeks about the tech-savvy Millennials and their impact on future work. I concede, even welcome the changes that business will need to introduce in response to these new expectations, but I don’t see the massive change that some writers seem to think is inevitable. The world will not change [...]

Update on Blogs as PM Tools – Tales from the Front Lines

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ January 21, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

We seem to be going through a second wave of focus (hype?) in the popular technology press, on the idea of using blogs as an important project management tool. The topic made the cover of CIO Magazine this week – Lynch made a number of interesting observations – interesting because I don’t necessarily see the [...]

Five Best Conversations with my Meebo (web IM) Client

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ August 29, 2007 ⋅ One comment

Back in January, I added the Meebo client to my blog page, and over the past few months I’ve learned a lot about web chat in general … There are other clients out there, and I’ve tried a few – most recently the AIM Wimzi, which came close to unseating Meebo as my web chat [...]

The Right Web 2.0 Tool for The Job

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ July 16, 2007 ⋅ One comment

I’ve had many discussions over the past few weeks on this post, trying to define the difference between Blogs, Discussion Forums, Wikis, and other Web 2.0-style collaboration tools. In a particularly interesting tight loop this morning, I got into an IM conversation on the issue via my little Web 2.0 Meebo widget, tucked away in [...]

More on (sic) experience with wikis

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ February 1, 2007 ⋅ One comment

no, that’s not a typo … Preamble: This starts out sounding like a diary entry, but some interesting wiki-focused observations are found below – including metrics! Catching up on old items in my feed reader: Back in November, TechCrunch had an item on AboutUs, which at first glance looked at little self-referential, a web site [...]

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