Michael Sampson - Currents

AUGUST 31, 2015

In a month I’ll be attending and speaking at Collabosphere 2015 , the PGi / Central Desktop user conference in Austin TX. In advance of my two sessions I spoke with some Central Desktop customers about their adoption framework, and it was heartening to hear the strategies employed. When executives sponsored the use of Central Desktop, and were actively involved themselves in the use of the tool, results were better than when executives were indifferent.

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Central Desktop Desktop 2015 Austin 35

Michael Sampson - Currents

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Central Desktop released an infographic, featuring nine types of collaborators : Types include the ringleader, the stealth ninja, and the socialite, among others.

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2011 Central Desktop Collaboration Desktop 25

Michael Sampson - Currents

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Central Desktop have announced today its first ever user conference - coming up in September 2011. I can't attend due to other commitments, but it's looking good this far out: " Please join us at Collabosphere 2011: Elevate, Central Desktop's first annual user conference!

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Central Desktop 2011 Desktop Annual 19

John Tropea - Delicious Collaboration

APRIL 8, 2006

Quick Tour Central Desktops SaaS social technology platformis built for next-generation business teams that want to save time, cut costs and manage daily workactivities. Web-Based Software Central Desktop for Salesforce.com Why Central Desktop? What Others are Saying See How Customers are using Central Desktop! Real-Time Collaboration - Schedule and host web meetings through Central Desktop and share information in real-time.

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Central Desktop Teams 2006 Collaboration 31

Michael Sampson - Currents

MARCH 23, 2011

Central Desktop released Common Ground , a new collaboration solution for marketing agencies: " Central Desktop, provider of the industry-leading cloud-based social collaboration platform for businesses, today announced the availability of its CommonGround edition, a new collaboration solution designed to help marketing agencies maximize billing hours and increase client retention. Central Desktop has long offered the first, and is now moving into the second.

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Desktop 2011 Central Desktop Collaboration 8

Portals and KM

JULY 11, 2012

 I recently spoke with Tara Sporrer, Moxie's VP of Marketing, and Nikhil Govindaraj, Moxie's VP of Products about their new desktop sync capability. The desktop sync capability provides the ability to work offline in the Windows desktop environment.

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Michael Sampson - Currents

AUGUST 29, 2012

Central Desktop's annual collaboration conference for customers and partners is happening October 21 to 23 in Santa Monica. Here's the agenda as it stands today: Early bird registration ends September 15. Conference Notes

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Central Desktop 2012 Annual Desktop 2

Michael Sampson - Currents

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

So I was delighted to hear yesterday of Central Desktop's new User Adoption & Training section in their help center - yes, there is material in "Help" about the application, but they have lifted their sights to the wider challenges too.

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Central Desktop Desktop Adoption 2010 2

Portals and KM

AUGUST 25, 2010

According to a new Forrester report, The Next Wave of O?ce ce Productivity. by Sheri McLeish with Matthew Brown and Joseph Dang, Microsoft Office continues to dominate both in the enterprise and at home to no surprise. However, changes are affecting enterprise productivity strategies, such as Web 2.0, enterprise 2.0, and the consumerization of IT.

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Desktop 2010 Microsoft Cloud 2

Portals and KM

MARCH 20, 2009

There is both an increase in cloud offerings to enhance connectivity and an increased connectivity between desktop applications and web services. Liz mentioned one non-profit that kept track of their events on a desktop database hosted on a single laptop.

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Quickbase Desktop 2009 Enterprise 2

Michael Sampson - Currents

MARCH 19, 2010

This report analyzes the use and effectiveness of user adoption strategies for the Central Desktop service, among a reference group of current Central Desktop client organizations. Central Desktop Plus Other Tools (Question 1). Smaller Organizations Use Central Desktop (Question 2). This report is for any organization looking at using the Central Desktop service, who wants to make effective decisions about user adoption. Published: March 2010.

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Central Desktop Desktop Approach Adoption 1

Michael Sampson - Currents

MARCH 19, 2010

This report analyzes the use and effectiveness of user adoption strategies for the Central Desktop service, among a reference group of current Central Desktop client organizations. Central Desktop Plus Other Tools (Question 1). Smaller Organizations Use Central Desktop (Question 2). This report is for any organization looking at using the Central Desktop service, who wants to make effective decisions about user adoption. Published: March 2010.

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Central Desktop Desktop Approach Adoption 1

Michael Sampson - Currents

JUNE 8, 2009

One of my clients is looking for a search product, at the desktop level. they disallow Google search on the desktop, due to performance reasons. Here's the situation: - they use Exchange 2007 and Outlook 2007. they use Symantec Enterprise Vault to archive email. they find the search tool in Outlook 2007 no good. they find X1 Search stops working, and when it does work, it isn't fast enough.

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Desktop Search 2009 2007 1

Michael Sampson - Currents

APRIL 29, 2011

Box announced SimpleShare , a desktop application for seamlessly sending files, images and screencasts to the cloud: " Today, the Box team is happy to introduce our newest desktop application, SimpleShare. Instead of taking a screenshot, saving it to your desktop, then uploading it to Box, Simple Share allows you to draw a region and instantly get a shared link to the image. You can even drag files from your desktop to the SimpleShare icon to instantly send them to Box. ".

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Desktop Cloud Integration 2011 1

Michael Sampson - Currents

MARCH 23, 2010

The first document is now done: the analysis of the results from over 200 organizations using the Central Desktop service. Somewhere people have to be trained on the basic concepts of the tool—how to describe Central Desktop, what its various tools are, how it works conceptually. For purchasing details (and free access to the Summary), see User Adoption Strategies: The Central Desktop Approach.

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Central Desktop Desktop Adoption 2010 1

Portals and KM

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

I have written about Central Desktop several times (e.g. Central Desktop Moves Up with Enterprise Edition and How Barack Obama is Using Web and Enterprise 2.0 in the US Primary Campaign Through Central Desktop ). If they saw conversations about Central Desktop or relevant social media issues, they would join the conversation. Isaac said they were able to respond to questions about Central Desktop, as well as both positive and negative issues.

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Central Desktop Desktop Conversation 2009 2

Michael Sampson - Currents

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

In late September I had the privilege of attending and speaking at the Collabosphere 2015 conference in Austin TX, hosted by Central Desktop. Thanks much to the Central Desktop team for their scheduling flexibility at the last minute. My trip was shorter than originally planned due to family circumstances, but I was still able to present the two sessions I had agreed to present. It was great to be there.

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2015 Central Desktop Austin Desktop 52

Web Community Forum

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Making web apps more desktop-like means removing security features. And I understand Google’s interest in making web appls feel more like desktop apps. I also approve of the idea that we want web-based applications to look, feel, and respond like native desktop applications.

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Web Community Forum

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Making web apps more desktop-like means removing security features. And I understand Google’s interest in making web appls feel more like desktop apps. I also approve of the idea that we want web-based applications to look, feel, and respond like native desktop applications.

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Desktop 2008 gMail Application 0

Portals and KM

AUGUST 20, 2009

Google recently purchased video compression provider On2 Technologies for about $106.5M. As Gartner’s Andrew Fran k writes, this is a “relatively small sum in the heady world of Internet valuations, for a company that’s been steadily losing money on less than $20M in annual revenue.” However, they have an interesting technology and the On2 purchase may be the clear signal of the plans Google has to enable video beyond the computer, taking it out of the home office and into the living room.

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Desktop Google Video 2009 2

Michael Sampson - Currents

AUGUST 26, 2015

In a month I’ll be in Austin TX for the Collabosphere conference hosted by Central Desktop / PGi. I’ve got a couple of sessions to deliver at the conference (Monday and Tuesday at 2.15pm), and will be on the ground in Austin for five days.

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Nancy White

AUGUST 7, 2008

I have let my replacement cycle get out of synch and am going to have to replace both my desktop and my laptop, but the laptop is more mission critical. Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Aug 07 2008 Crap free computers Published by Nancy White at 6:53 am under technology stewardship It is getting to be that time again — computer replacement.

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2008 Desktop Mac 2009 2

Michael Sampson - Currents

MAY 28, 2015

In late September, Central Desktop, a PGi company will be hosting its annual conference in Austin TX – Collabosphere 2015. I’ll be there, and am delighted to say that I’ll be speaking too. My talk is on user adoption: Make-or-break user adoption strategies for every business.

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Michael Sampson - Currents

OCTOBER 27, 2016

At its reveal event in New York yesterday, Microsoft introduced the Surface Studio, its first desktop computer under the Surface brand.

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Technology 2016 Desktop Skype 19

Portals and KM

MAY 25, 2011

Real time communication is being added to the desktop with new investments in desktop videoconferencing (33%), unified communications (32%), instant messaging (30%), and web conferencing (31%).

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Collaboration 2011 Videoconferencing Desktop 52

Jenny Connected

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Have the following documents either printed out or downloaded onto your desktop. This is for downloading to your desktop and working on, on your computer. We had a great webinar on Emergent Learning on Tuesday, courtesy of Sylvia Currie and the SCoPE community at BCcampus.

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Michael Sampson - Currents

APRIL 28, 2016

Project Infinite will enable users to seamlessly and securely access all their Dropbox files from the desktop, regardless of how much space they have available on their hard drives. Everything in the company’s Dropbox that you’re given access to, whether it’s stored locally or in the cloud, will show up in Dropbox on your desktop. Where do your documents live?

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Michael Sampson - Currents

APRIL 28, 2016

Project Infinite will enable users to seamlessly and securely access all their Dropbox files from the desktop, regardless of how much space they have available on their hard drives. Everything in the company’s Dropbox that you’re given access to, whether it’s stored locally or in the cloud, will show up in Dropbox on your desktop. Where do your documents live?

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2016 Cloud Desktop Flash 41

Michael Sampson - Currents

APRIL 13, 2015

An engineering firm expanded from Europe into the United States, and was able to use desktop video meetings to keep managers aligned and in touch with each other. Desktop phones are removed. During 2014 I expanded the scope of my adoption research to the unified communications (UC) area.

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2015 Adoption Communication Sametime 42

Michael Sampson - Currents

MARCH 31, 2016

Changing my mother’s desktop background—a picture of our family—to the same picture with my youngest brother’s face pasted over everyone else’s. I was subjected to a number of April Fool’s Day pranks today, as recounted by one of my sons : Happy April Fool’s Day! Last night and this morning provided a lot of laughs for me. A younger brother stuck my mouse to the mouse pad with blue tack, and my sister hung a pink and blue dress on the clothes hooks I recently put up in my room.

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2016 Desktop Phone Public 34

Michael Sampson - Currents

MARCH 31, 2016

Changing my mother’s desktop background—a picture of our family—to the same picture with my youngest brother’s face pasted over everyone else’s. I was subjected to a number of April Fool’s Day pranks today, as recounted by one of my sons : Happy April Fool’s Day! Last night and this morning provided a lot of laughs for me. A younger brother stuck my mouse to the mouse pad with blue tack, and my sister hung a pink and blue dress on the clothes hooks I recently put up in my room.

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2016 Desktop Phone Public 34

Michael Sampson - Currents

MARCH 25, 2015

Last week Microsoft announced details of Office 2016 for the Windows desktop. The details included new features for Outlook: - We’ve replaced the RPC-based sync with a new Internet-friendly MAPI-HTTP protocol that supports Exchange/Outlook connectivity. – We’ve eliminated the use of foreground network calls to ensure that Outlook stays responsive on unreliable networks.

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Michael Sampson - Currents

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

For example, a Word document, will be opened with the desktop app of Office 365. As part of the announcement around Mac Sync, Luis from IBM also mentioned that round-trip editing is available for Connections Content Manager : IBM Connections Content Manager (CCM) users can now do round-trip editing. This means that while they are browsing for files in a Library, users can click on “Edit” in the browser and the file will open with the user’s favorite local editor.

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Connect Connections Connectivity Management 32

Portals and KM

JUNE 1, 2011

  Ted notes that desktop virtualization may be the answer.  By running client applications on a server or an employee’s PC, you can make them available safely through a virtual desktop. He adds that tablets may be the killer motivator to embrace desktop virtualization. Over 15 million iPads have been sold. I have seen many in action and my wife is about to get one. Perhaps I will get inspired also. This is not all.

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Enterprise 2011 Desktop Employee 22

Delicious/tag/cp2tech02

JUNE 27, 2008

Snap a picture of anything on your desktop. Weblog. Send Feedback. Video Tour. Capture, record, share. Communication is evolving. Capture Images. Record Video. Record video of what you do, or what you see. Share Online. Instantly uploaded. Share in email, IM, or blogs. Download. For Mac OS X. Download. For Windows. What is this thing called Jing? Video tour. The concept of Jing is the always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and videoâ?¦from

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2008 Project Conversation Mac 33

Michael Sampson - Currents

MARCH 17, 2014

direct scanning from desktop scanners to OneNote. - … and more.

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Mac Microsoft 2014 Evernote 57

Laurel Papworth- Social Network Strategy

AUGUST 27, 2012

A: Currently, the claiming process is only supported on desktop. How to get a custom URL for Google Plus. Replaces gplus.to with Google’s official version of a Facebook USERNAME. If you aren’t on Google Plus already you are mad.

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Custom Google 2012 Social Media 106

Portals and KM

MAY 18, 2012

Now business users can work on a presentation from their desktop, drag-and-drop it to SharePoint, and send a link to colleagues using harmon.ie I have written about harmon.ie several times. See for example - Harmon.ie Provides Social Email to Help Drive Enterprise Collaboration Adoption. Their tools focus on increasing user adoption of collaboration tools include bringing central components of SharePoint into both Outlook and Lotus Notes.

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Mobile Sharepoint Lotus Notes 2012 33

Portals and KM

JULY 20, 2011

The desktop client allows you to participate in the Social Sites environment without being inside the platform. Ideas can be submitted on the fly via the activity stream or via the Social Sites desktop, email, or mobile clients. NewsGator recently launched Social Sites 2010 2.0,

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The Bumble Bee

MAY 11, 2011

I am pleased to introduce the A4 Team Game ( Alignment, Attitudes, Attention and Autonomy ) which can be configured for different team challenges and runs on the desktop, the web or even embedded in other applications.

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