collaboration

E-mail wastes a huge amount of time, according to CEO of IT services company. Want to get him a message? Come talk in person. Or on the phone. Or IM. Or on a private Wiki. Or Facebook. Or...just forget it.

VMware wants to refocus the virtualization market away from the strengths of Citrix and Microsoft with suite collaboration aimed at end users.

A recent study showed that a majority of workers don't want desktop video conferencing to become part of their daily lives despite the hype from vendors and executives. Some very basic realities about most workplaces, human behavior, and real productivity may be the reasons.

codepad.org lets you run code in a dozen leading languages, without any local installation.

Twitter can be useful to build quick and dirty intranets, or set up real-time status updates without having to maintain an Instant Messaging desktop client running in the background. But it doesn't always fit in with enterprise IT needs, and here are a bunch of different products that can work in these situations.

I'm on several media lists as an expert source for technology quotes, especially for small business technology. One came through today that caught my eye as an interesting topic, but one that small and medium businesses should ignore. The question was about great new innovations in the pipeline.

I have a friend always after me to write a book about what he calls “the e-mail train wreck,” which I probably should seriously consider. I thought about him when writing my latest Network World newsletter

I have to concede that enterprise social networking (eSN) has been around for a very long time. In fact, it has been around so long that it has only recently been identified as social networking. In the not-so-distant past eSN was called unified communications and collaboration.