Enterprise collaboration’s image problem
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What’s the number one problem holding enterprise collaboration technology back today? I say it’s images. The beautiful tools you and I talk about on this site do wonders for improving the reach of our words and the depth of our research. What they don’t do is simplify [read more...]
Streamline your team’s updates with microblogs
Our new SharePoint site is coming in handy for status updates. Yesterday afternoon I kicked off an ETL? data load for a teammate. It ran long and eventually failed so I had to fix it this morning. In the meantime we fired off a few emails back and forth with about four people included thanks [read more...]
Easier to marginalize email than to kill it
Asking your teammates to give up their inboxes is not going to make you many friends. Today I’m going to outline a way to free your office from the burdens of email misuse without forcing anyone to let go of their Blackberry or GMail security blankets.
Permit me to re-use this old graphic from a previous [read more...]
E-mail as an Alert System
Let’s wrap up this week of workplace efficiency discussions by looking at what email is becoming for many of us: an alert system. The screenshot above shows my personal email inbox at GMail. A quick glance shows that the majority of the messages are automated alerts from various web services: the [read more...]
Don’t E-Mail It!
This week I’m going to talk about a few opportunities for improving workplace efficiency through better communication. One of the biggest drivers behind this blog is a search for efficiency in the workplace. Too often we find ourselves performing the same tasks again and again without ever stopping to analyze our actions. [read more...]
