PBworks puts the Wiki in the office and the courtroom
PBworks has added two major improvements in the last few months: tools for lawyers and their support teams, and another that amounts to the first intelligent use of social networking for inside businesses.
Now is the time to consider a wiki for your Intranet
With the US Army embarking upon a pilot project to make use of wikis to rewrite several of their field manuals, now is the time you might want to consider them for a collaborative Intranet project.
Project Manager Gets Social, Social App Gets Organized
LiquidPlanner is adding more collaboration tools to its online project management application because people, not tasks, create most of the problems in project management. And PBworks is adding task management tools to its wiki (originally PBwiki) because when people collaborate, they usually have shared tasks to accomplish.
Four Tips for Getting Good ROI from Web 2.0 Projects
Embarq, a high-speed internet and phone company serving 5.7 million customers in 18 states, has had some early success making Web 2.0 part of its overall innovation strategy to improve idea generation and ultimately create new products. Here are some tips you can take from Embarq's success
Three myths of enterprise wiki deployment
With the growing popularity of enterprise 2.0, many organizations are increasingly willing to grant employees a common platform upon which to collaborate and contribute and share ideas. Wikis are often touted as such a platform that is easily launched and to which employees will flock to contribute ideas, but they can prove difficult to get off the ground if not done properly.
Esther Schindler
If the comments are ugly, the code is ugly
claird
SVG a graphics format for 21st century
pasmith
Take Chrome OS for a test spin
Sandra Henry-Stocker
Solaris Tip: Have Your Files Changed Since Installation?
jfruh
Android fragments vs. the iPhone monolith
mikelgan
What Gizmodo missed about the Pro WX Wireless USB disk drive
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
- mburton325
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