Document Collaboration News & Articles

A week into January and the 2011 expert predictions are still coming in strong. In addition to tips and trends, our little helpers have helped disprove a few popular myths this week.  Want to do right by your business? Read on. 

Salesforce.com (news, site) makes another acquisition in the social space as it aims to widen its collaboration product base.

Sometimes, with all the fireworks surrounding Microsoft vs Google for dominance of the business cloud market, we forget that there are indeed other players. KnowledgeTree, another competitor, continues to build its cloud offering for the SMB sector with this week’s new release offering Office integration and new pricing levels that drop as low as US$ 35/month.

If you’re not quite convinced that SharePoint 2010 will be your next technology true love, and are still on the prowl for an intranet solution sporting collaboration capabilities, then Intranet DASHBOARD (iD) could be the candidate you're after. Here's our review.

I found Susan Hanley recently while I was researching SharePoint governance. She’s co-authored two books on the subject; I found them appealing and universal. I thought, “if she’s half as friendly in real life as she is in her books, I have to know her.” My gut instinct didn’t fail me. Read on, Dear Reader, and judge for yourself.

It was October last year when Quark (news, site) and Microsoft announced their new partnership to bring dynamic publishing to Microsoft SharePoint  (news, site). Today, they take it a step further letting us that this integration will work for SharePoint 2010.

Box.net (news, site) sees mobile as the next big distrupter for enterprise content management. If you didn't know that before, today's news should bring it home. The cloud-based content management provider has just announced a Box.net app for the Android.

We’ve all likely experienced the impact of social collaboration tools like LinkedIn and Facebook in our personal lives, but, chances are, few of us have seen the same kind of impact from collaboration tools in our work lives. Despite the fact that at home we can easily upload content a single time and then share via links, create discussion threads around content, and browse relevant content and conversations along a range of convenient facets, at work most of us are still using the clunky trinity of shared drives, hard drives and email to create, find and share documents.

But that’s changing, and fast. In the not too distant future (18 – 24 months), we’ll be seeing three key shifts in how we collaborate on documents in the enterprise. 

Wikipedia is probably the world's biggest and most successful collaborative writing project. The free, web-based, multilingual encyclopedia offers site visitors millions of articles written by volunteers around the world.

Ah yes, collaboration. For many businesses, collaborative writing is almost synonymous with "pain" and practically the definition of "necessary evil." But think: On Wikipedia, collaboration is so not-painful that people do it for free. What is Wikipedia doing right that corporations aren't? What is Wikipedia's lesson for corporations about how to make collaboration work?

Email is dead? Hardly. Four reasons why email is ideally suited to bring web 2.0 innovations to the enterprise.

Almost exactly a year ago LinearCube (news, site) launched its Alfresco-based document management solution for the SMB market. Recently it has extended that software with the launch of ContentCube Dedicated (CCD), which comes enhanced software and customizable features for large businesses and service providers.

Box.net's (news, site) tagline is "Simply Share". Today the company has taken a new step to enable its users to easily keep updated on what's happening with their content through the introduction of a content-centric newsfeed.

Documents are a big part of our work lives and rarely do we work on them alone. So document centric collaboration isn't new, but the way in which we do it is changing. 

Caveat emptor is Latin for ”buyer beware”; this gem of wisdom has been passed down to us from Roman times, and in some ways it’s an example of Knowledge Management (KM) in action -- a nugget of ‘knowledge’ that countless generations have found to be valuable, and so passed on by word of mouth, clay tablets, scrolls or more recently books and websites!

When you consider your organization's KM strategy in the context of your content management and collaboration environments, then I would re-iterate “buyer beware”, particularly the be wary of any vendor who wants to sell you an “end to end” knowledge management solution.

I would suggest there is no such thing as a “KM system” as in a single piece or suite of software, in the mold of “one ring to rule them all”.

 If you don't want to go down the SharePoint route, Atlassian (news, site) could be the alternative you're looking for