Social Media is becoming an increasing requirement for communications in the enterprise. Web Journal 2.0 recently had a great post on this very subject:
Social Media Inching Its Way into the Enterprise
— Social software technologies are exposing the holes in corporate communication and collaboration and at times filling them before the enterprise can fully grasp and control the flow. In a new study released this week, user-experience research firm Nielsen Norman Group found that many of the most successful social media initiatives on company intranets start as underground, grassroots efforts led by front-line workers, and which later are officially sanctioned by the enterprise.
Continue reading "Social Media, Internal Communications, and the Enterprise" »
I am still one of those
writers who uses a desktop PC. Reason being is that I like the fact I
can have a lot of hard disk, heavy duty processing power, and two large
screen monitors. While I use a MacBook Pro as my other primary writing
machine--nothing beats a large monitor for my eyes.
Continue reading "Deciding On My Next Primary Desktop PC" »
I've
been spending some of my downtime contemplating the intersection of
Social Media, Web Offices, and technical writing. These technological
and platform changes are going to overwhelm the technical writers who
have been doing their job the same day from when they fired up their
first employer's PC on day 1 of their first job out of college.
Continue reading "The Intersection of Social Media, the Web Office & Technical Writing" »
LinkedIn
is really pressing forward with the integration of third-party
applications and Web services into their platform. All in all, this is
a prudent move for LinkedIn to keep pace with social networking and to
do the best to augment their platform.
Their integration with WordPress means LinkedIn users can tie into their WordPress site and have their latest posts show up in their LinkedIn profile.
Continue reading "WordPress and LinkedIn" »
I've been in a real tinkering mode as of late. Perhaps it's because I reread my copy of the Lifehacker book at the pool over last weekend.
Continue reading "Random and Recent Projects" »
When I was writing my post about building the better corporate
instant messaging deployment I was using my MacBook Pro. A Google
search on Windows Live Messenger turned up this very Mac centric page
about Microsoft Messenger: mac and Microsoft Office Communications
Server 2007:
Continue reading "Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 showing some love to the Mac?" »
Zoho recently made a very strategic move by launching Zoho Office for SharePoint
because of SharePoint's growing dominance in the enterprise. It seems
everybody I am speaking to about potential projects these days is using
Microsoft Office SharePoint Services 2007 for secure document
collaboration inside their firewall.
Continue reading "Zoho Office for SharePoint Launches" »
I've written before on this blog about the convergence of social networking, online collaboration tools, and the Web Office.
LinkedIn,
a business-focused social networking site is jumping into that fray by
offering up integration to a free
Box.net account. This is a great
vehicle for posting writing samples (that are in the public domain) and
even Word or PDF versions of resumes to make them accessible on LinkedIn.
Continue reading "Box.net on LinkedIn" »
Through some previous contracts
I've gained experience interacting with an administering SharePoint sites including
managing document libraries, user access, creating lists and other site
elements. In fact, I believe that today's technical writer needs to be
fluent in SharePoint site administration.
During this time, I've inherited some SharePoint sites that made my job harder versus making me more productive.
Continue reading "My SharePoint Site Pet Peeves" »
Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook disables Microsoft Desktop Search according to recent news
reports. While early reports on the tool touted it as a simple way to
migrate from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps the fact that the
application breaks Microsoft Desktop Search is a major blow to this
application in my opinion.
Continue reading "Google Apps Sync Disables Outlook Desktop Search" »
While AOL Instant Messenger,
Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk, and Yahoo Messenger have found a
home on corporate desktops, often times an organization needs to have
an enterprise class instant messaging solution like Office Communicator 2007
in place to ensure security and auditing of instant message that bounce
around behind their firewall and extend out to customers and partners.
Continue reading "Building The Better Corporate Instant Messaging Deployment" »
During
recent job interviews and meetings with prospective clients, the topic
of my SharePoint experience came up more than once. While I am a big
proponent of Microsoft Office SharePoint Services 2007 in the
enterprise, I am the first to admit that you shouldn't downplay the
initial deployment because it can be a game changer and have a definite
impact on business processes.
Continue reading "Building the Better Microsoft Office SharePoint Services 2007 Deployment" »
Online presentation services and a professionally facing social media platform like LinkedIn are an ideal match as job seekers seek to differentiate themselves.
LinkedIn offers SlideShare Presentations
as application add-in to augment your LinkedIn profile. SlideShare
Presentations supports all the major presentation software formats
including *.ppt, *.pps, *odp, keynote, *doc, and *.odt.
Continue reading "SlideShare Presentations and LinkedIn" »
I was a long time Palm customer dating back to the time that predates smartphones. In fact, I first started carrying a Palm PDA back when you could sit around a conference table and the meeting participants who were carrying a PDA where the exception rather than the rule.
Palm and I had a break up during the Treo 650 generation
because they became irrelevant as they lagged behind in technology.
When developments in the Treo product line grew stale, I became a
Blackberry user.
Continue reading "My Initial Impressions about the Palm Pre" »
The
Microsoft Office 2007 system seems to be catching on in my marketplace.
During recent interviews and meetings with prospective clients, the
topic of Microsoft Office 2007 and its many new features has been
raised more than once. A lot of the Microsoft Office 2007 questions I've heard also deal with Microsoft interaction with Microsoft Office SharePoint Services 2007.
Organizations
planning a migration from Microsoft Office 2003 to Microsoft Office
2007 shouldn't take the migration lightly. While it is easy to dismiss
Microsoft Office as just Microsoft Office, it needs to be known that Microsoft Office can be the center of an end user's primary work and business processes.
Continue reading "Building The Better Office 2007 Migration" »
Google Calendar is my calendar of choice for tracking my personal and
professional lives because I switch back and forth between multiple
Windows and Macintosh PCs during the course of my work day. This means
that Google Calendar is always open in one or another of my browser
tabs during most hours of my online/work time.
One of the many bright spots to come out of Google Labs is Google Tasks. While its initial integration with Gmail
was uninspiring but Google made the right move and took the next and
proper step to integrate Google Tasks with Google Calendar.
Continue reading "Google Tasks and Google Calendar Integration" »
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