Ctrl – Alt – Social
In the tech world in which everything is recycled, retooled, and spit out like un-digestible gristle, one often comes across the phrases such as groupware is “dead” or “email is dead.” Oddly enough these are euphemisms or perhaps more correctly the opposite: dysphemisms – the substitution of a disagreeable word…

Shhhh… PKI Wiki Is Up
I’ve been a bit quiet on the Process Knowledge Initiative front lately due to other commitments, and lack of much public-facing progress in spite of the progress that we’d been making internally. That’s about to change, because we have a public wiki up and running for the draft Body of Knowledge, and will officially be […]

Lotusphere 2011: Social Business Here Comes IBM
When I started out in the IT world, the first thing I ever did was to develop a Lotus Notes practice for a small company. This was the early 90s, if I recollect correctly (I’m not being evasive, merely making believe I’m an old codger, by cracky). So I would go to Lotusphere – pre-IBM […]

Moving Collaborative Apps from Groupware to the Cloud
Listen to my conversation with Jon Pyke, Founder and CEO of CIMTrek, which provides tools to migrate legacy applications to cloud platforms. In this podcast, learn why some collaborative applications are holding organisations back from adopting the cloud, and find…

Wikis With ECM and BPM
Here are the slides from the presentation that I did last night at Toronto Wiki Tuesday: Using Wikis With Enterprise Content and Process Management View more presentations from Sandy Kemsley. It was recorded on Ustream, but the quality is not very good since we were in a pub, not a studio. There will be a […]

Wiki Tuesday: Wikis at RBC
Yes, I know that today is not Tuesday, but this is about our previous Toronto Wiki Tuesday, a monthly meetup where we have a presentation on wikis, lift a few pints and hobnob with wiki specialists such as Martin Cleaver (who also organizes Wiki Tuesdays) and Mike Dover (co-author of Wikinomics).
The presenter at this session […]

The SaaS applications wiki – open for business
Over on AccountingWEB’s forums (you need an AWEB account to log in, but it’s free) there have been some heavy exchanges discussing the barriers to adoption of Cloud solutions by accountants in practice in the UK. I found it interesting, but sadly the dialogue has been too vendor driven, with plenty of verbiage from the […]