Author: Stu Downes

Technologist specialising in making people more productive

Social SharePoint Community

Recently an independent site focused on promoting ideas and discussions for the Lotus Community was launched.  Mark highlighted that Microsoft … More

Office Live Workspace

Microsoft has announced pre-registration for a collaborative workspace where anyone can share documents, upload directly from office applications, and synchronise … More

Idea Jam

A collaborative effort (see press release here) has resulted in IdeaJam.  The aim of the site is simple.  Ideas are … More

Effective Collaboration Arrow

I’ve been thinking recently about effective collaboration, the move from email and how some projects in the same organisation with … More

Lotus “Live”

So is this the start of Lotus “Live“?  There were many who wondered when IBM would reach into the collaboration software as … More

A documents day

Google added presentation tools to their portfolio.  What I wasn’t expecting which we see is the ability to share a … More

Intel grants think time

300 engineers pilot Tuesday morning’s without interruption from meetings, telephones, instant messages or email. (Quiet Time Pilot Launched via michael).  I … More

Conference Humour

Well it tickled me.  Chris Rothwell (Microsoft) and Ian Black (Autonomy) were representing their companies during an opening session discussion.  … More

Notes 8

Its here, I’ve not commented on it yet so here goes my summary (I’ll keep it as short as possible): … More

Presence in the portal

One thing is becoming very clear as unified communications becomes a reality.  Presence in the portal must allow for voice … More