Also, as Microsoft announced last August, the suite will include Outlook for Mac, which replaces Entourage as Office's e-mail client. pop-up in Word will show you who's working on the document; click on that list, and you'll be able to send them a message (as long as everyone is using Outlook or Microsoft's Messenger IM application). Organizations can now use IBM software for enterprise social networking; instant messaging; and securely encrypted Office for Mac 2011 ... Microsoft announced details of Office for Mac 2011, with plans for better compatibility with Windows, improved

Messaging Centric Collaboration - For example, if I hold a "conversation" with my "geographically dispersed team" via email, I'm doing "conversation-centric" via "messaging centric". The conversation is happening, but we're collaborating via messaging tools. A team could work toward a deliverable using email (Jed = Messaging Centric). My (virtual colleague) Jed Cawthorne recently shared his thinking around collaboration technology and the ownership thereof in an organization. From What exactly is 'collaboration' - and who owns it? ,

It comes, that is to say, from some of the great pioneers of anthropology, linguistics and post-structuralism. Flyingwithout instruments (aka access to my library), I believe that phaticcommunications sends a series of messages. I do wish I did.) The phatic messages "stack" nicely, each message presupposing and building on its predecessor. Grant McCracken This Blog Sits At the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics Chief Culture Officer -The Book Books Recommended Books Speaking Consulting Culture Camps Bio Contact Jul 19 How social networks work: the puzzle of exhaust data By grant Jerry Michalski and Pip Coburn were recently talking about the puzzleof "exhaust data."