The main focus of our conversation was his use of Lotus Notes as a tool to support his work and life. In other words, while we did speak about the power of Lotus Notes for group and organizational collaboration, my conversation with David was oriented around the power of Lotus Notes to enable individual effectiveness and efficiency.  With all the bad mouthing that many people send in the direction of Lotus Notes, it was very In mid-December, I interviewed David Allen from The David Allen Company . And it clearly works very well!

Last week Thomas Vander Wal trashed SharePoint as an enterprise social computing platform in a blog post entitled SharePoint 2007: Gateway Drug to Enterprise Social Tools . Actually, I argued a similar line in my January 2006 article entitled Whose Fault Is It When Collaboration Software Sucks (mainly about Lotus Notes). have shifted from a tooling focus to a strategic focus -- which has always He ultimately concluded that SharePoint failed for enterprise 2.0. Apart from my own interest in his analysis, I have received two specific requests for a reaction.

eProductivity for Lotus Notes Ships ... of eProductivity for Lotus Notes, a software application that brings David Allen's GTD methodology to life in Lotus Notes. " With eProductivity, users reclaim up to 30 minutes each day by reducing the time it takes to capture ideas and commitments, process e-mail and manage information in Lotus Notes. I've watched Eric Mack get ready for this day for a long time, and so it is with great delight that I see these press releases cross the wire ... go Eric!

I want to share this post I did that first appeared in AppGap to make you aware of a free search tool for those in a Microsoft environment. Coveo offers enterprise search technology including their enterprise search modules and search-based environment, where I work, and Lotus Notes through their advanced search modules. search-based applications for such functions as call centers and litigation & 38; compliance.

And Then There is Notes Last Last week, Adriian Bloem, an Analyst at CMS Watch, wrote a blog post on the difference between SharePoint and Lotus Notes . difference 3, agreed , but that's not the fault of Notes. If you have a Microsoft-centric developer, then obviously Visual Studio will be easier to work with compared to being a Microsoft-centric developer I like what CMS Watch stands for: independent advice for people making decisions about technology. Last year, Anthony Byrne of CMS Watch asked if I would review and comment on their SharePoint Report.

I am sure you would agree with me that Social Computing, and, in particular, social software tools, still have got plenty of different challenges within the enterprise in order to provoke that massive cultural shift most of us have been looking forward to for a long while. One of those challenges has always been trying to accommodate the mobile workforce and provide something so relatively simple as offline capabilities from most of those social tools. Yet, it is not happening as much as one would have hoped for, don’t you think? I

Far too often, when I read lofty articles on the current crop of "right answers" (blogs, wikis, social networks), it get the impression that people are unaware of the history being collaboration tools - we tend to focus on "the shiney new thing". Sometimes, you get the impression that collaboration tools are either something new (they're not), or that past attempt to improve collaboration via e-mail, forums, etc were failures (which is an over-simplistic argument - at the time, these tools garnered similar praise as today's 2.0 As I read this post by Dick Hirsch on the ESME blog, it reminded me how important it is to put technology into an historical context at times.

which I keep in a Lotus Notes task list because it replicates to my Blackberry download" list (handwritten, for when I'm in a CD store). My work Lotus Notes e-mail can't be bothered to transcribe it to a "to do" list). My work Lotus Notes Calendar, BLOG Shouldn't Unanswered E-mail, E-mail,

is about building tools that end users can leverage to build their own solutions. To be truly useful, these tools have to plug into the back end of any corporate entity. systems out there will have thought through these issues. An Aside to the Lotus Notes Crowd Lotus Notes tried to do all of this but (at least up to version 6.5) innovation Creators Successful innovation is not about the ideas or inventions; it’s about the people. About Videos Whitepapers Enterprise 2.0 = Emergence Software October 10th, 2006 There is something very interesting happening in the field of enterprise technology.

what the social tool actually is. You can use tools in ways that are not aligned with the intent of E2.0.  It has though taken the industry a long time to actually mature the underlying tooling and infrastructure to enable such solutions on a broad scale. It is not new - although there are new possibilities of integrating social tools into business applications - still, the definition and intent A partial list of points-to-ponder: Enterprise 2.0