This is the second of a three-part series on Web 2.0 at Work. Do you use a wiki at work? If not, why? Here’s what you are missing. Before we setup our office wiki anything that was an office policy guide, procedure manual, or what-to-do-in-case-of document was done in Word or Excel and placed out [...]
This is the first of a three-part series on Web 2.0 at Work. As Tim figured out, I work in a university admissions office with Bren. Being in the sales business there are two general types of staff: those that sell (recruit) and travel, and those that support (file coordinator, visit/event staff) the sales team. [...]
I was reading my copy of Information Week yesterday, and the main focus of this issue is answering the question of what does web 2.0 look like in the enterprise. John Soat’s article, What Web 2.0 Will Mean For Workforce 2.0, is written with his tongue firmly planted in his cheek (as much of his [...]
Grigor at Behind the Glasses beat me to the punch, but I’ve got 20 invites up for the taking to the private beta of MindMeister. He’s got the added idea of starting right out on the collaboration aspect of MindMeister. With the limited time I’ve spent on MindMeister so far it is a very nice [...]
Google — whether they admit it or not — is aiming directly at Microsoft’s hold on office suite software. They announced today that they will offer a “Premier Edition” of their Google Apps software to companies for an annual fee of $50 per seat. The fee-based version, Google Apps Premier Edition, includes five times more [...]
Google Tutor gave some valuable information out about creating better links in relation to the Google search engine. The gist of it is that when you make a link with text like “click here” the search engines are not indexing the link effectively. No matter how intelligent Google may seem to be, it’s still machine [...]
For a long time — so long I can’t remember when I started — My Yahoo! has been my homepage. Back when Yahoo! was king they were the (possibly) the first to do a customizable portal page. Since I started using it the content I have on the page hasn’t really changed. When I first [...]