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Jul31	Dabble - Bookmarking for Videos Diane Ensey July 31, 2006 Know More: video 2.0, video If you like watching videos on the internet, or want a way to find cool, interesting or hot videos, Dabble works really well. It is like Flickr for videos, in that users have collections of videos found on the web and you can link to video lists of people whose taste you like. Tagging, search - it is all there. If I don't sound excited, it isn't because Dabble isn't needed or nicely done - it definitely is. Instead it is a "oh yeah" kind of idea - absolutely needed and deployed predictably. Don't let that stop you from trying it out, though. It beats wading through YouTube's hundreds of "America's Funniest Home Video" clips. Posted at 11:10 AM \| Permalink
Jul31	Does Social Media Give More Weight to Information? Diane Ensey July 31, 2006 BL Ochman pointed out this article at E-Business Blog about social media as a tool for change. She takes issue with their assertion that social media removes individual identity and I agree with her comment,On the contrary, the value of... Continue Reading Posted at 10:46 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul28	Yahoo Messenger 8 Launched - Already 180 Plugins Diane Ensey July 28, 2006 Yahoo Messenger, the second most used IM software, has just released Messenger 8 out of beta testing. It offers Skype-like PC-to-PC, PC-to-Phone, Phone-to-PC abilities, but that isn't what is exciting about it.Yahoo Messenger 8 allows programmers to write plug-ins for... Continue Reading Posted at 10:33 AM \| Permalink
Jul27	Zoho Show Now Exports to Desktop Diane Ensey July 27, 2006 Zoho Show, the online presentation application similar to PowerPoint, has added the ability to download a presentation to HTML - necessary if you need your presentation, but won't have internet access. They've also added much-needed notes and enabled right-click functionality.Previous... Continue Reading Posted at 4:39 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Team Direction to Further Integrate with Sharepoint Diane Ensey July 27, 2006 John Milan, of TeamDirection, says in an email:Also, for our next version we will have even more integration with SharePoint in that a Project Manager can publish our tasks to both a SharePoint task list and to MS Outlook. This... Continue Reading Posted at 3:45 PM \| Permalink
	Syncura Paid Version to Release in August Diane Ensey July 27, 2006 Syncura head Tim Weiler is planning to release the paid version of Syncura, moving the software out of beta, in August. While still working on pricing, they hint it will be less than Groove's $69/user fee.Tim also passed on some... Continue Reading Posted at 3:39 PM \| Permalink
Jul26	TeamDirection: Project Management for Sharepoint, Groove Diane Ensey July 26, 2006 TeamDirection offers a project management add-in for SharePoint and Groove which is fully integrated with Outlook and Messenger. Projects from MS Project can also be imported.I'm not fully familiar with project managment software, but this solution seems pretty powerful, yet... Continue Reading Posted at 8:48 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul25	Syncura: P2P File Sharing With an Easy Interface Diane Ensey July 25, 2006 Sometimes you just need to share files with your team. Syncura fills that need with an easy, Windows Explorer-like interface. Using P2P, Syncura allows you to designate folders to share with teams. Different folders can have different people sharing the... Continue Reading Posted at 8:45 AM \| Permalink
Jul24	Blogging, Instant Messaging to Replace Email? Diane Ensey July 24, 2006 Another article about the decline of email. The biggest reason is that we are just getting so much of it - not to mention it is not 'instant' enough. I've been asked to create a secured-access internal blog for a... Continue Reading Posted at 10:53 AM \| Permalink
Jul20	More On Designing for Real Users Diane Ensey July 20, 2006 Tara Hunt is also talking about designing and programming for users. Real users. I really hate the phrase, "I want to design this for the housewife in Utah," because the housewife in Utah may or may not give a damn... Continue Reading Posted at 7:21 AM \| Permalink
Jul19	Tick: Tracking Time Spent on Projects Diane Ensey July 19, 2006 At some point in a consultant's career a change is made from working on a strictly hourly basis to quoting an entire project. The profit margins can be quite high for quoting an entire project, but you need to keep... Continue Reading Posted at 2:53 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul18	The Change Function: Cool & New vs. Status Quo Diane Ensey July 18, 2006 I haven't read The Change Function: Why Some Technologies Take Off and Others Crash and Burn by Pip Coburn yet, but I must after reading Jason Pontin's review and Kevin Hale's post.Apparently Coburn's hypothesis is that those who create technology... Continue Reading Posted at 6:38 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	New Yahoo Start Page Friendly, Less Crowded Diane Ensey July 18, 2006 Yahoo released its new Ajax-based home page yesterday and it is a welcome relief. Instead of strings and strings of links, information is tabbed and placed in different boxes on the page. One master navigation bar runs up the left... Continue Reading Posted at 6:08 PM \| Permalink
Jul17	Accomplice: Task Managment Reaches a New Level Diane Ensey July 17, 2006 Entrepeneurship 101 says to find one niche to fill and do it extremely well. By tackling the much needed problem of managing tasks, to-dos or activities, Accomplice is concentrating one problem and solving it very well. Accomplice - 'Your Partner... Continue Reading Posted at 5:45 PM \| Permalink
Jul15	Empressr - Dynamic Presentations with Animation and Streaming Video Diane Ensey July 15, 2006 One of the major drawbacks to most online PowerPoint-like applications is the lack of animation or the ability to add video or audio to the presentation. The presentations are pretty plain-vanilla. Empressr uses an Ajax and Flash based architecture which... Continue Reading Posted at 11:35 AM \| Permalink
	FEMA and Homeland Security to Issue Mobile Alerts Diane Ensey July 15, 2006 It's nothing new, really. FEMA and Homeland Security are now offering security alerts for your mobile device. When I lived in Seattle and used my Blackberry frequently, I subscribed to a number of alerts, including: Seattle traffic - alerts for... Continue Reading Posted at 11:22 AM \| Permalink
Jul14	Informal Sharing as Vital as Formal Collaboration Diane Ensey July 14, 2006 A post today made me think about how much attitudes about business and how business is done has changed. Before starting my consulting business four years ago, I worked for ten years for a largish printing company. They fought internet... Continue Reading Posted at 10:56 AM \| Permalink
Jul13	Windows 98 Officially History Diane Ensey July 13, 2006 The news didn't surprise me much - we've been expecting it for years - Microsoft terminated all support for Windows 98 on June 11th. The support site will remain in place with the current documentation, but no new security patches... Continue Reading Posted at 2:54 PM \| Permalink
Jul12	Zoho Virtual Office Diane Ensey July 12, 2006 Zoho Virtual Office is a web-based collaboration application with all the basic features and some extras as well. Email - A POP3 email client is built into the application, which means you can consolidate all of your POP3 email accounts... Continue Reading Posted at 9:44 AM \| Permalink
Jul11	Zoho: Quiet Masters of Online Workflow Diane Ensey July 11, 2006 Zoho is a collection of Office-like software applications creating in Ajax and accessible via the internet. There are so many parts to Zoho that I'm surprised I don't hear more people talking about them. Zen-like, they seem to be perfecting... Continue Reading Posted at 3:23 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	10 Features Collaboration Software Should Have Diane Ensey July 11, 2006 I've been musing over the features that a collaboration application should have. Features generic enough to apply to any kind of shared document, and any kind of application, web-based, P2P or other. My top ten features are: Version Tracking. I... Continue Reading Posted at 11:01 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Zoho Writer Now Offers Real-Time Document Editing Diane Ensey July 11, 2006 Zoho Writer, a web-based text editor, just announced real-time document editing. Two or more people can edit the same document at the same time and see the changes almost immediately.Zoho Writer handles this in a unique way - each user... Continue Reading Posted at 10:29 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul10	Assessing Web Collaboration Applications: Central Desktop Diane Ensey July 10, 2006 I reviewed Central Desktop not long ago, so I'll stick with comparing it with the other applications here: Sharepoint - I actually prefer Central Desktop for small to medium businesses. It is cheaper and easier to use. Since the company... Continue Reading Posted at 4:14 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Assessing Web Collaboration Applications: 30 Boxes Diane Ensey July 10, 2006 30 Boxes is another socially-based collaboration application similar to CollectiveX. Its usefulness comes mainly from its calendar interface - it is easy to use and intuitive for non-technical folks. The features are extremely basic, a calendar, task list and profile... Continue Reading Posted at 3:56 PM \| Permalink
Jul 8	Assessing Web Collaboration Applications: Basecamp Diane Ensey July 8, 2006 Basecamp is the darling of the tech crowd. Nearly everyone I talk to uses it. Everyone blogs about it. What is so special about it?First of all, it is easy to use. Setting up a new project, adding team members,... Continue Reading Posted at 10:52 AM \| Permalink
	Assessing Web Collaboration Applications: CollectiveX Diane Ensey July 8, 2006 CollectiveX was first reviewed on DoRealTime back in February. It is very much oriented to the social aspects of collaboration, with an emphasis on inviting members and your bio.While you can upload files and there is a forum and calendar,... Continue Reading Posted at 6:39 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul 7	Assessing Web Collaboration Applications: Groove and Sharepoint Diane Ensey July 7, 2006 Both Groove and Sharepoint are Microsoft products and have the ability to work together if needed. SharepointSharepoint is a server-based application accessible via the user's browser. It is a major player in the collaboration field, with all the bells and... Continue Reading Posted at 11:49 PM \| Permalink
	More on Smart Clients From John Milan of Team Direction Diane Ensey July 7, 2006 John Milan of Team Direction was gracious enough to comment on smart clients at my request, since my own knowledge is academic and not first hand. I didn't want anyone to miss his excellent analysis, so I'm reproducing it here... Continue Reading Posted at 3:43 PM \| Permalink
Jul 5	Team Collaboration Using Smart Clients Diane Ensey July 5, 2006 We are detouring slightly in our discussion of web collaboration application to address something John Milan of TeamDirection brought up in a comment - Smart Clients.Smart clients depend upon Web Services (XML) to share data. The application itself runs on... Continue Reading Posted at 5:56 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul 4	Choosing a Collaboration Application: Server or P2P Diane Ensey July 4, 2006 We've discussed what collaboration applications are, why they are important and the features they offer. We are getting closer to choosing the perfect application, but first a decision must be made: Server or P2P?The majority of collaboration applications are server-based. ... Continue Reading Posted at 11:39 AM \| Permalink
Jul 3	Web Collaboration: Project Management, Databases and Application Integration Diane Ensey July 3, 2006 So far in this series I've discussed what Web Collaboration is and why it is important to teams and what the basic features of most applications are. Features that are less standard in web collaboration applications, and help distinguish one... Continue Reading Posted at 9:42 AM \| Permalink
Jul 2	Web Collaboration: Features and Tools Diane Ensey July 2, 2006 In my last article I discussed what Web Collaboration software is and why it is important to teams. This article looks at the common features offered by collaboration software and their potential use in small, medium and large business settings.... Continue Reading Posted at 11:03 AM \| Permalink
Jul 1	Web Collaboration: Why it is Important Diane Ensey July 1, 2006 Collaborative applications are the hot Web 2.0 business offering, but why are they so important to businesses? What organizational benefits arise from using collaborative software? What features are offered? How do you pick one application over another?In a series of... Continue Reading Posted at 10:25 AM \| Permalink \| Comments

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Jul31	Dabble - Bookmarking for Videos Diane Ensey July 31, 2006 Know More: video 2.0, video If you like watching videos on the internet, or want a way to find cool, interesting or hot videos, Dabble works really well. It is like Flickr for videos, in that users have collections of videos found on the web and you can link to video lists of people whose taste you like. Tagging, search - it is all there. If I don't sound excited, it isn't because Dabble isn't needed or nicely done - it definitely is. Instead it is a "oh yeah" kind of idea - absolutely needed and deployed predictably. Don't let that stop you from trying it out, though. It beats wading through YouTube's hundreds of "America's Funniest Home Video" clips. Posted at 11:10 AM \| Permalink
Jul31	Does Social Media Give More Weight to Information? Diane Ensey July 31, 2006 BL Ochman pointed out this article at E-Business Blog about social media as a tool for change. She takes issue with their assertion that social media removes individual identity and I agree with her comment,On the contrary, the value of... Continue Reading Posted at 10:46 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul28	Yahoo Messenger 8 Launched - Already 180 Plugins Diane Ensey July 28, 2006 Yahoo Messenger, the second most used IM software, has just released Messenger 8 out of beta testing. It offers Skype-like PC-to-PC, PC-to-Phone, Phone-to-PC abilities, but that isn't what is exciting about it.Yahoo Messenger 8 allows programmers to write plug-ins for... Continue Reading Posted at 10:33 AM \| Permalink
Jul27	Zoho Show Now Exports to Desktop Diane Ensey July 27, 2006 Zoho Show, the online presentation application similar to PowerPoint, has added the ability to download a presentation to HTML - necessary if you need your presentation, but won't have internet access. They've also added much-needed notes and enabled right-click functionality.Previous... Continue Reading Posted at 4:39 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Team Direction to Further Integrate with Sharepoint Diane Ensey July 27, 2006 John Milan, of TeamDirection, says in an email:Also, for our next version we will have even more integration with SharePoint in that a Project Manager can publish our tasks to both a SharePoint task list and to MS Outlook. This... Continue Reading Posted at 3:45 PM \| Permalink
	Syncura Paid Version to Release in August Diane Ensey July 27, 2006 Syncura head Tim Weiler is planning to release the paid version of Syncura, moving the software out of beta, in August. While still working on pricing, they hint it will be less than Groove's $69/user fee.Tim also passed on some... Continue Reading Posted at 3:39 PM \| Permalink
Jul26	TeamDirection: Project Management for Sharepoint, Groove Diane Ensey July 26, 2006 TeamDirection offers a project management add-in for SharePoint and Groove which is fully integrated with Outlook and Messenger. Projects from MS Project can also be imported.I'm not fully familiar with project managment software, but this solution seems pretty powerful, yet... Continue Reading Posted at 8:48 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul25	Syncura: P2P File Sharing With an Easy Interface Diane Ensey July 25, 2006 Sometimes you just need to share files with your team. Syncura fills that need with an easy, Windows Explorer-like interface. Using P2P, Syncura allows you to designate folders to share with teams. Different folders can have different people sharing the... Continue Reading Posted at 8:45 AM \| Permalink
Jul24	Blogging, Instant Messaging to Replace Email? Diane Ensey July 24, 2006 Another article about the decline of email. The biggest reason is that we are just getting so much of it - not to mention it is not 'instant' enough. I've been asked to create a secured-access internal blog for a... Continue Reading Posted at 10:53 AM \| Permalink
Jul20	More On Designing for Real Users Diane Ensey July 20, 2006 Tara Hunt is also talking about designing and programming for users. Real users. I really hate the phrase, "I want to design this for the housewife in Utah," because the housewife in Utah may or may not give a damn... Continue Reading Posted at 7:21 AM \| Permalink
Jul19	Tick: Tracking Time Spent on Projects Diane Ensey July 19, 2006 At some point in a consultant's career a change is made from working on a strictly hourly basis to quoting an entire project. The profit margins can be quite high for quoting an entire project, but you need to keep... Continue Reading Posted at 2:53 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul18	The Change Function: Cool & New vs. Status Quo Diane Ensey July 18, 2006 I haven't read The Change Function: Why Some Technologies Take Off and Others Crash and Burn by Pip Coburn yet, but I must after reading Jason Pontin's review and Kevin Hale's post.Apparently Coburn's hypothesis is that those who create technology... Continue Reading Posted at 6:38 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	New Yahoo Start Page Friendly, Less Crowded Diane Ensey July 18, 2006 Yahoo released its new Ajax-based home page yesterday and it is a welcome relief. Instead of strings and strings of links, information is tabbed and placed in different boxes on the page. One master navigation bar runs up the left... Continue Reading Posted at 6:08 PM \| Permalink
Jul17	Accomplice: Task Managment Reaches a New Level Diane Ensey July 17, 2006 Entrepeneurship 101 says to find one niche to fill and do it extremely well. By tackling the much needed problem of managing tasks, to-dos or activities, Accomplice is concentrating one problem and solving it very well. Accomplice - 'Your Partner... Continue Reading Posted at 5:45 PM \| Permalink
Jul15	Empressr - Dynamic Presentations with Animation and Streaming Video Diane Ensey July 15, 2006 One of the major drawbacks to most online PowerPoint-like applications is the lack of animation or the ability to add video or audio to the presentation. The presentations are pretty plain-vanilla. Empressr uses an Ajax and Flash based architecture which... Continue Reading Posted at 11:35 AM \| Permalink
	FEMA and Homeland Security to Issue Mobile Alerts Diane Ensey July 15, 2006 It's nothing new, really. FEMA and Homeland Security are now offering security alerts for your mobile device. When I lived in Seattle and used my Blackberry frequently, I subscribed to a number of alerts, including: Seattle traffic - alerts for... Continue Reading Posted at 11:22 AM \| Permalink
Jul14	Informal Sharing as Vital as Formal Collaboration Diane Ensey July 14, 2006 A post today made me think about how much attitudes about business and how business is done has changed. Before starting my consulting business four years ago, I worked for ten years for a largish printing company. They fought internet... Continue Reading Posted at 10:56 AM \| Permalink
Jul13	Windows 98 Officially History Diane Ensey July 13, 2006 The news didn't surprise me much - we've been expecting it for years - Microsoft terminated all support for Windows 98 on June 11th. The support site will remain in place with the current documentation, but no new security patches... Continue Reading Posted at 2:54 PM \| Permalink
Jul12	Zoho Virtual Office Diane Ensey July 12, 2006 Zoho Virtual Office is a web-based collaboration application with all the basic features and some extras as well. Email - A POP3 email client is built into the application, which means you can consolidate all of your POP3 email accounts... Continue Reading Posted at 9:44 AM \| Permalink
Jul11	Zoho: Quiet Masters of Online Workflow Diane Ensey July 11, 2006 Zoho is a collection of Office-like software applications creating in Ajax and accessible via the internet. There are so many parts to Zoho that I'm surprised I don't hear more people talking about them. Zen-like, they seem to be perfecting... Continue Reading Posted at 3:23 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	10 Features Collaboration Software Should Have Diane Ensey July 11, 2006 I've been musing over the features that a collaboration application should have. Features generic enough to apply to any kind of shared document, and any kind of application, web-based, P2P or other. My top ten features are: Version Tracking. I... Continue Reading Posted at 11:01 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Zoho Writer Now Offers Real-Time Document Editing Diane Ensey July 11, 2006 Zoho Writer, a web-based text editor, just announced real-time document editing. Two or more people can edit the same document at the same time and see the changes almost immediately.Zoho Writer handles this in a unique way - each user... Continue Reading Posted at 10:29 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul10	Assessing Web Collaboration Applications: Central Desktop Diane Ensey July 10, 2006 I reviewed Central Desktop not long ago, so I'll stick with comparing it with the other applications here: Sharepoint - I actually prefer Central Desktop for small to medium businesses. It is cheaper and easier to use. Since the company... Continue Reading Posted at 4:14 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Assessing Web Collaboration Applications: 30 Boxes Diane Ensey July 10, 2006 30 Boxes is another socially-based collaboration application similar to CollectiveX. Its usefulness comes mainly from its calendar interface - it is easy to use and intuitive for non-technical folks. The features are extremely basic, a calendar, task list and profile... Continue Reading Posted at 3:56 PM \| Permalink
Jul 8	Assessing Web Collaboration Applications: Basecamp Diane Ensey July 8, 2006 Basecamp is the darling of the tech crowd. Nearly everyone I talk to uses it. Everyone blogs about it. What is so special about it?First of all, it is easy to use. Setting up a new project, adding team members,... Continue Reading Posted at 10:52 AM \| Permalink
	Assessing Web Collaboration Applications: CollectiveX Diane Ensey July 8, 2006 CollectiveX was first reviewed on DoRealTime back in February. It is very much oriented to the social aspects of collaboration, with an emphasis on inviting members and your bio.While you can upload files and there is a forum and calendar,... Continue Reading Posted at 6:39 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul 7	Assessing Web Collaboration Applications: Groove and Sharepoint Diane Ensey July 7, 2006 Both Groove and Sharepoint are Microsoft products and have the ability to work together if needed. SharepointSharepoint is a server-based application accessible via the user's browser. It is a major player in the collaboration field, with all the bells and... Continue Reading Posted at 11:49 PM \| Permalink
	More on Smart Clients From John Milan of Team Direction Diane Ensey July 7, 2006 John Milan of Team Direction was gracious enough to comment on smart clients at my request, since my own knowledge is academic and not first hand. I didn't want anyone to miss his excellent analysis, so I'm reproducing it here... Continue Reading Posted at 3:43 PM \| Permalink
Jul 5	Team Collaboration Using Smart Clients Diane Ensey July 5, 2006 We are detouring slightly in our discussion of web collaboration application to address something John Milan of TeamDirection brought up in a comment - Smart Clients.Smart clients depend upon Web Services (XML) to share data. The application itself runs on... Continue Reading Posted at 5:56 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul 4	Choosing a Collaboration Application: Server or P2P Diane Ensey July 4, 2006 We've discussed what collaboration applications are, why they are important and the features they offer. We are getting closer to choosing the perfect application, but first a decision must be made: Server or P2P?The majority of collaboration applications are server-based. ... Continue Reading Posted at 11:39 AM \| Permalink
Jul 3	Web Collaboration: Project Management, Databases and Application Integration Diane Ensey July 3, 2006 So far in this series I've discussed what Web Collaboration is and why it is important to teams and what the basic features of most applications are. Features that are less standard in web collaboration applications, and help distinguish one... Continue Reading Posted at 9:42 AM \| Permalink
Jul 2	Web Collaboration: Features and Tools Diane Ensey July 2, 2006 In my last article I discussed what Web Collaboration software is and why it is important to teams. This article looks at the common features offered by collaboration software and their potential use in small, medium and large business settings.... Continue Reading Posted at 11:03 AM \| Permalink
Jul 1	Web Collaboration: Why it is Important Diane Ensey July 1, 2006 Collaborative applications are the hot Web 2.0 business offering, but why are they so important to businesses? What organizational benefits arise from using collaborative software? What features are offered? How do you pick one application over another?In a series of... Continue Reading Posted at 10:25 AM \| Permalink \| Comments

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