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Open Source ECM in a Windows World

September 13th, 2006 · No Comments · Office 2.0

Link: Open Source ECM in a Windows World.
The open source ECM tool Informa chose is Alfresco Enterprise Network, developed by Alfresco. Launched in the fall of 2005, the software is not quite yet a year old. In its short life, the ECM tool has been adopted by companies like Boise Cascade and Knight Ridder Digital. [...]

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Introducing Approver.com

September 5th, 2006 · 4 Comments · Approver.com, Office 2.0, Web/Tech, Work

I’m usually all about the sharing, but I have to admit I’ve been a little cagey over the blog in the past month or so. After leaving Yahoo! I mentioned I was starting a consultancy to help businesses capitalize on the knowledge and experience I’ve built up over the years doing platform products and developer [...]

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Patty Seybold on Office 2.0

September 1st, 2006 · 5 Comments · Collaboration, Content, Community, Office 2.0

Link: Outside Innovation: GOOGLE: THE CAMEL’S NOSE IN BUSINESS SOFTWARE?.
Will small businesses and mid-size companies begin to question the wisdom of paying a full-time email maintenance staff to keep their email lifeline flowing, when they can avail themselves of "free" (easy-to-use email, calendaring, Web page creation, and hosting, etc.) from Google? You bet!
Will large companies [...]

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Office 2.0 Conference October 12-13

August 16th, 2006 · No Comments · McManus World Tour, Office 2.0, Web/Tech

I’ll be speaking on a panel at the upcoming Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco October 12-13.
"Office 2.0" refers to Web 2.0 productivity applications — stuff to help you save time online, get stuff accomplished, and share your work with others. Many of these apps (too many, I’d argue) involve creating not-quite-good-enough versions of conventional [...]

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See the Future Again and Again and Again

August 7th, 2006 · 6 Comments · Office 2.0, Work

Back when I worked at eBay I used to keep a poster up in my cubicle. It was an ad for reruns of Futurama, and the tag line read:
See the future. Again and again and again.
I put the ad up in my cubicle because I love Futurama, but after a while I realized that “see [...]

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Google Spreadsheets

June 6th, 2006 · 9 Comments · Office 2.0, Web/Tech

I am here to say that I am bored with Google releasing products that nobody actually wants. Google Spreadsheets is the latest example, but it’s not hard to find lots of others in their stable.
As usual, reporters are making this into a clash of the titans instead of evaluating it for what it is. This [...]

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Why Email is Bad

May 3rd, 2006 · No Comments · Office 2.0, Web/Tech, Work

Via Lifehacker, here’s an excellent post on how email is a terrible collaboration tool because it confines important information into silos. Yes, yes, yes.
I’ve been thinking about these kinds of problems a lot lately. I’m particularly chuffed about the way that my email archive is where documents go to die. I save most stuff that [...]

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