I am at a Microsoft event in Christchurch (New Zealand), co-presented by Intergen New Zealand . The event is focused on how to use various Microsoft technologies for emergency response. You can learn more about the initiative at Microsoft Citizen Safety Architecture, at www.microsoft.com/csa . The architecture describes how to use various Microsoft technologies to support agencies and organizations focused on citizen safety. There's about 50 people here for the 2 hour session.

I thought I would offer some comments on some UC predictions offered by Gurdeep Singh Pall, who heads Microsoft's UC group: No Jitter | Microsoft: Gurdeep's UC Predictions single identity with presence at the core is spot on - but it makes you wonder why Microsoft does not openly share its rich presence information? 1. UC gets unified The term "unified communications" has long been muddled and miss-used, and the problem is made worse by vendors who slap a "unified" label on products that are anything but.

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also - being on Codeplex means (I believe): no formal support, that the code does not go through the normal Q&A process, etc etc. If there's good news - at least Microsoft realizes that the intersect between social media / social networking and CRM is important to address. Microsoft Dynamics CRM Announces New Solution Accelerators: CRM Accelerators have exceeded 50,000 downloads to drive customer and partner value. I'm still catching up with my backlog of news, feeds, etc - but this caught my attention - but not in a good way - it seems to be a fairly feeble attempt to cover the brand monitoring / reputation space.

Looking at the Tension in the Collaboration Process by Bill Ives September 1, 2008 at 10:09 am · Filed under Enterprise 2.0 Bruce Lewin writes the blog, Four Groups and he recently posted a long piece on The Tension in Collaboration . Does collaboration benefit from a more formal process? He started with these four questions: Should we be putting people first, before technology, in our efforts to collaborate? Can collaboration be encouraged in a replicable and systematic manner (as much as anything concerning people can be repeatable

I’m often asked for notes about the processes that I use, so I’m experimenting with using slideshows to describe processes. Fac Processes - Pass the Zap! View more Microsoft Word documents from Viv Mcwaters . ...Tags: My first attempt is with one of my favourite activities called Pass the Zap! This might be a step before making some animated videos.

Microsoft have brought out there own search engine competitor to Google. put both these products through their paces by conducting a rigorous benchmarking process entering a stupid question. May be Microsoft have tapped into the murkiest corners of my sexual orientation and revealed my true nature to me. it's known as "Bing" (which makes me think of a dead crooner, not sure if that's the association that they're after). I

or social computing area, it’s not Microsoft’s fault. is a way of describing a particular view of business process, culture, organization, and structure. can be implemented at a tooling level with Lotus Notes or Microsoft SharePoint, or one of the new fancy products. In my view, “collaboration technology” has to deliver certain things to teams to aid 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 . He ultimately concluded that SharePoint failed for enterprise

Right now, enterprise instant messaging is dominated by IBM and Microsoft. IBM and Microsoft). Presence is also dominated by IBM and Microsoft. That position will still go to IBM and Microsoft. Although Cisco has a broader collaboration arsenal than Avaya given its I've posted a lot recently regarding enterprise social messaging ("Twitter for the enterprise"): Twitter in the Workplace

Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) is a disappointing platform for social computing in my opinion. My position for some time has been that the next release will be a tipping point for Microsoft's social computing efforts. Either Microsoft "gets it right" and delivers a forward-looking release with significant improvements that transforms SharePoint into a market-leading social computing platform, or it delivers a release that has only incremental improvements to existing Rather than list off a "top ten" list of predictions for 2009, I thought I would briefly layout some topics and areas that business and IT decision-makers should pay attention to when formulating Enterprise 2.0