May 2012
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Collaboration starts at home
After two very good sessions with a CorasWorks customer today I’m reminded just how important it is for organizations to share their successes internally. Nothing inspires new ideas and solutions like seeing someone else within your company who has accomplished something similar.
April 2012
10 posts
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We've Got SharePoint...Now What? 4 Next Steps →
Some things to think about when deploying SharePoint in your organization.
“Consider Product, Platform, Project
Strategically, there are three components and viewpoints to consider when deploying SharePoint. These tiers — product, platform and project — provide an eye-opening look at the deployment. As a product, SharePoint is a strategic business-oriented platform with pre-built...
Using Evernote to Design and Deliver Training →
Why smaller may be better for business communities →
Change Settings On Multiple Social Networks From... →
E-Waste Recycling: Staples Will Take It All →
The new Blogsy update
Blogsy has released an update for their iPad blogging software that now supports Tumblr. Since Tumblr is moving forward with becoming one of the premiere blogging platforms, it’s a good sign for the application.
Digital Smackdown: "digital dinosaur vs. digital... →
Never assume age defines digital understanding. Personally I know so many “natives” that are really just users of tech, not students and experts in tech.
Why CIOs Must Be More Social →
Effective implementation of social technology can only be accomplished with a practical familiarity with the technology. If you don’t use it, you can’t make it work.
About Handwriting →
johnwylam1957, wordpress.com
As most of you are painfully aware, the keyboard generation left behind the act of cursive writing, for the most part. I’ve met a number of people who call cursive writing quaint, but it has no place in a culture of instant…
Handwriting will never go away…and that’s a very good thing.
Why Google+ Won't Fix the Comment Problem →
March 2012
2 posts
Recovering the Lost Art of Note Taking | Michael... →
You're not collaborating. You're just publishing. →
Collaboration is more than a one way street.
How to Better Vet an App's Quality Before Dropping... →
February 2012
9 posts
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Why Smaller May be Better for Social Business... →
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So You Think You are Good at Collaboration →
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Workflow has nothing to do with work
I’d like to take a moment and challenge some traditional wisdom. When working on solving problems within a business many people will claim, “it’s a workflow issue.”. Countless hours are spent documenting “workflows,” developing complex flow charts of data interaction and decision points. Did you know that no “work” actually happens in a workflow?
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Less business intelligence, more business common...
All too often I hear my company’s products confused with “business intellegence” systems. While it is possible to configure those types of solutions with our platform, that would be equal to saying every car Chrysler builds is a pick-up truck. It’s just not the case. A solution platform such as ours is really about one thing…coming up with the common sense solutions...
In The Rush To Mobile, Don't Ignore The Power Of... →
Steve Ballmer Reboots →
Build a Stronger Professional Network with These... →
January 2012
2 posts
The Pen Is Mightier Than The Phone: A Case For... →
No matter what tech comes the pen (or pencil) and paper will always be worth it.
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Text messages versus data messages
I did an analysis of my family text messaging usage over the past six months to see if the release of iMessenger between our iPhones made any difference. If you’re not familiar with iMessenger, it’s an update to the texting app on the iPhone that recognizes when you are messaging another iMessenger user and sends the message as data rather than as a carrier text message. I think the...
December 2011
6 posts
Why I Went Paperless (Contributed Post by Evernote... →
Good article with some rationales behind the shift to paperless using Evernote. I follow some of the very same reasons myself.
Evernote for Students: The Ultimate Research Tool... →
Another good guide for getting the most out of Evernote, this time for students.
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The Facebook Effect
Social Business. It’s all the buzz now. Everyone who’s anyone in business is proclaiming the virtues of the social business model for success. Let’s cut through the hype. There are some things that the concepts derived from social networking for personal use can be leveraged in the business world. Activity Streams - knowing what your co-workers are working on and providing relevant feedback...
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Quick and Easy
Why is it that so many people want to make collaboration projects so darn complicated? Overloading interfaces with features, trying to fit every possible idea into one solution, and not doing anything until it’s “perfect.” There’s times when having something that is “good enough” is far better than not having what is “perfect.” The key is to design collaborative solutions in a way where they...
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Project Management Dashboards
It’s a rare presentation on project management when I don’t hear a request or interest in project management dashboards. ”We need to see what is going on in all the projects in real time,” is the common statement made. Providing those types of dashboard controls from a technology perspective are a relatively simple matter. The hard part is…why do you want them in...
October 2011
5 posts
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'Flipped' classrooms take advantage of technology... →
Doesn’t this make more sense than the traditional model?
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“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else...”
– George Orwell (via philphys)
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The Power of Polite Conversation
So often in today’s hectic world we fail to extend each other the common courtesy of small talk. We’ll begin conversations with, “Did you get to this?” or “What’s the status of that?” before we even say, “Hello.” In the hunt for brevity and efficiency, the victim is the common exchange of pleasantries that was so often the norm in days past. How difficult is it to take five seconds at the...
June 2011
2 posts
Gartner: Five Considerations with Enterprise... →
“Life is a beta.”
– Jeff Jarvis
May 2011
1 post
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How to Run a Pop-Up Restaurant with Evernote: Rice... →
A proper breakdown of how to use Evernote for information gathering around business planning.
April 2011
3 posts
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“Madness is what genius looks like to a tiny mind.”
– Stephen Moffat
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The 5 Myths of collaboration →
Using Google Docs for collaborative notetaking →
Lots of people will get together and compare notes to create massive study guides, but since Google Docs lets you collaborate in real time, why not just take the notes together in the first place?
March 2011
1 post
“Many people are realizing that random phone calls are just not considered polite...”
– Phone Calls Are So Last Century | Techdirt
February 2011
3 posts
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Use a netbook, not a tablet, in school →
As a big fan of netbooks this is a great article to learn about some of the virtues of netbooks in the classroom.
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Sync Microsoft Office docs with Google Docs →
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Five tips for Evernote
I’m a big fan of Evernote and I’m always looking for new ways to make it work for me. Here’s a couple of tips I’ve started applying and getting more use from Evernote (didn’t know that was even possible based on how much I use it already!)
When sending an email use the BCC (blind courtesy copy) field in the address section to include your “secret”...
October 2010
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7 Time Management Mistakes You Are Making With... →
September 2010
3 posts
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Social applications taking the place of email in... →
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The Google Docs Drawing Tool Makes Collaborative... →
August 2010
4 posts
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“I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings...”
– Bene Gesserit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia