Category: Workplace

  • Understanding wikis and best practice

    Finding out about wikis isn’t terribly difficult – there are plenty of descriptions around to help you understand what they are, starting with this one on Wikipedia (itself a wiki). But if you want to find out who’s doing what…

  • Spinning Vista and grassroots resentment

    So Microsoft announced yesterday that Windows Vista will be delayed in its public release for consumers, not coming out until early 2007 instead of the expected later in 2006. Not surprisingly, this news has already attracted wide commentary in mainstream…

  • Social bookmarking for the enterprise

    Tagging and social bookmarking – two phrases much in vogue today as the means with which individuals can track information online and connect it with their own and other people’s interests. A new venture called Cogenz looks as though it…

  • Four steps to overcome collaboration obstacles

    A thoughtful feature in the Financial Times discusses the question of why in-house collaboration in organizations is so difficult, with the consequent impact on effective working. The article highlights some accepted theories about this, including these: [The first theory] is…