Disclaimer: A friendly reminder that the following is my opinion and not that of my employer. In the midst of my recent binge watching I have been subjected to an exceedingly annoying marketing campaign droning on about the wonderfulness of Microsoft Teams during the pandemic. After 1500 viewings, of which a disturbing number were while... Continue Reading →
Work AT Home not FROM It
Everyone is struggling with working from home as we collectively face a global pandemic. Meme's in the millions about it are on every platform. I would argue though that working FROM home is not what we should be trying to do now. We need to be working AT home. From now on. What is the... Continue Reading →
Trello (maybe) Takes an Arrow to the Knee
I hated Trello. Maybe that's too strong. I was genuinely annoyed by it. It just didn't seem to do what I needed it to do. Nevertheless I was forced into adopting it by departmental mandate. This adoption problem though was not with Trello. The problem was with me. I approached the service as a former developer... Continue Reading →
Advice for 2014 – Give and Take
I thought I would begin 2014 with a few thoughts on how to give and take advice. This picture is from my home town. The utter practicality of it says a lot about the place. We spend a great deal of energy, mental and otherwise trying to figure out how to create cultures of innovation.... Continue Reading →
Coming Next Year to Salesforce – File Sharing
Salesforce formally announced Chatterbox today at Dreamforce. Chatterbox is adding file management to Chatter, a collaboration service which is integrated with Salesforce. This will be the first direct offering of file management from Salesforce. Salesforce is formally targeting Dropbox with the announcement, but this will also go head-to-head with partners like Box and SpringCM. The announcement was lite in details... Continue Reading →
GooglePlus and the Diet Coke Rocket Car
I am ashamed that this is my first and probably only post on GooglePlus. Not since the Diet Coke and Mentos thing or Google Wave (hint hint) have so many people wanted to try something they saw on the internet. Yet last week I took an informal completely unscientific poll on Twitter and though the sample... Continue Reading →
EMC Embraces Employee Managed Content with Box
The world of collaboration is changing and EMC is making dramatic moves to address the portfolio’s relevance in the market. All of the legacy ECM vendors are struggling to maintain or redefine themselves in this space. There is no debating the fact that SharePoint was a tremendously disruptive product in the collaboration market and redefinition... Continue Reading →
Do Content People Make Good E2.0 People?
I was asked a question over dinner the other day - "So how did you get into this social media and E2.0 stuff." First of all I was a little surprised I was asked the question at all. I am a content guy. I don't remember exactly what I said in response. I just strung a few... Continue Reading →
2010 Content Management Assumptions from Marko Sillanpaa
As the year comes to an end it’s time to look at the future. While many are looking to major predictions for next year, I thought I’d focus on the most obvious ones. These are the top five ECM assumptions that loom ahead in are day-to-day work lives 2010 #1 SharePoint and Traditional ECM Won’t... Continue Reading →
Is Collaboration Slowing You Down
I ran across this post that references a study on the "rate of innovation." Long story short - it is taking longer to come up with new ideas. Rapid advances in science and technology raise the base line for understanding what we already know so it takes much longer just to get started. I would have... Continue Reading →
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