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Archives for January, 2012


What I’d Like to See in the Office 15 Technical Preview

by Craig Roth  |  January 30, 2012  |  Comments Off

Many information workers have Office intertwined in their daily work lives and many will get new versions from their IT departments automatically at some point without personally having to pay for it, so a new version of Office can feel like waiting to see what goodies Santa brought you this year.  Well, the wait will [...]

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Inadequate Technology Adoption: What is it? How Do You Spot it?

by Craig Roth  |  January 26, 2012  |  1 Comment

In my posting How a Collaboration Technology Gets Adopted I described a storyline of how a collaboration technology goes from purchasing through adoption (and beyond to value).  That technology could be social networking, SharePoint, an intranet, or a portal – I’ve seen the same pattern with all of them.  There are 3 paths for what [...]

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Category: Collaboration Microsoft SharePoint Portals     Tags:

How a Collaboration Technology Gets Adopted

by Craig Roth  |  January 25, 2012  |  Comments Off

Adoption, adoption, adoption.  Sometimes it seems like that’s all anyone wants to hear about when it comes to collaborative technologies such as social networking, SharePoint, Jive, or intranets.  I’m on record as being a bit of a curmudgeon about adoption since I’ve seen it abused so frequently (particularly in the SharePoint space) by IT folks [...]

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Category: Collaboration governance Microsoft SharePoint Social software     Tags: