Collaboration is regarded as a working practice whereby people work together to a common purpose to achieve a desired business benefit.
Collaboration enables individuals to work together to achieve a defined and common business purpose. Generally, it exists in two forms:
Synchronous, where everyone interacts in real time, as in online meetings, through instant messaging, or via Skype, and
Asynchronous, where the interaction can be time-shifted, as when uploading documents or annotations to shared workspaces, or making contributions to a wiki.
Therefore, this category is full of advice and the best technology to use for ‘collab’ projects. Check out some of the Step by Step blogs or learn with our eBooks, How To videos and Webinars.
In this free eBook featuring Chapter 1: “Working with Personal Documents” you will find out if you can work with your personal documents using Office 365 on the following devices: iPad, iPhone, Surface RT tablet, Nokia Lumia 720 or Android Phone and tablet.
Getting ahead means harnessing & coordinating ideas from the best experts inside and outside your organization. But creating and securing high-performing collaborative digital work environments is the challenge of our time.
Collaboration between employees is a critical part of business success and a key driver for increasing competitiveness and productivity. If you are using enterprise collaborative environments from Microsoft SharePoint to file shares, or even social platforms, it is important to acknowledge the potential for a data breach. You do not want to find yourself in a position where you are scrambling to retrofit security measures after a breach
I thought I’d close out January with a quote from an article in Harvard Business Review by Thomas J. Tierney (Collaborating for the Common Good, July 2011):
SharePoint is many things to different companies. To some, it’s a document management platform with an enterprise-grade, federated search system; to others it functions as a communication platform, corporate intranet, project management portal, and scheduling tool and for others still it’s a content management system for hosting websites.
I ran across an interesting article by Rachel Miller summarizing research gathered by her company, All Things IC, and simply-communicate.com, a community for internal communications professionals, that asked an important question for those of us in the broader information management space: What does your organization call internal social media within your company?”
Back in the 1990’s, industry observers wondered what Netscape pioneer Marc Andreessen would do next. Loudcloud, launched September 9, 1999 was the answer. Loudcloud was, in many ways, way ahead of its time — introducing “cloud computing” and “software as a service”.
There are lots of different mobile devices out there: Smartphones with HD or Full-HD screen resolutions, older and newer Blackberry devices and tablets with different screen formats and resolutions (like Microsoft Surface, Android tablets and Apple iPads)
Discover SharePoint Security Options today One of the biggest advantages of using SharePoint as a Document Management and collaboration environment is that a robust security and permissions structure is built-in to the application itself. Authenticating and authorising users is a fairly straightforward task, and administration of security permissions is simplified. Too often, however, security for… READ MORE
A few months back I was given access to a Widows Azure environment through PFE. The test was to see if I could build a viable virtual environment to fully power a SharePoint 2013/2010 instance. When I say fully I mean 1-domain controller w/AD, 1-SQL Server, 1-2013 App Server, 1-2010 App Server.
