Smartsheet Smartsourcing is a new offering that provides on-demand access to virtual workers who can be employed on a task-by-task basis. Amazon.com originally developed the Mechanical Turk for use in projects for the company’s e-commerce site. It was so well received that the company then decided to open up the service beyond its originally intended […]
Read MoreCutting and pasting, who doesn’t take this simple and age-old concept for granted? Even before the advent of desktop computers, layout artists, armed with X-Acto knives and glue, manipulated text for documents and presentations. The technique has been used in desktop computers for decades and most PDAs and smartphones also support this function – except […]
Read MoreBack in January, in writing about Nortel’s trip to bankruptcy court, I commented that one possible outcome might be that the company break itself up into pieces and that a likely acquirer for the enterprise unit might be Siemens Enterprise Communications. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, Nortel may be in talks right now to […]
Read MoreIn the Briefing Room: SenderOK We recently took a look at SenderOK, an e-mail sorting and management system. SenderOK uses algorithms to sort e-mails according to a variety of criteria including how often the sender’s e-mail messages are answered, if the e-mail originates from a domain that the user has recently been to, and the […]
Read MoreInformation Overload costs companies billions of dollars in lowered productivity and throttled innovation and its impact on the bottom line isn’t something you can ignore. But how much does it cost your organization? Information overload causes: Diminished comprehension levels Lower individual efficiency Compromised concentration Lost opportunities Raising awareness of the problem is the best first […]
Read MoreCloud computing, for better or worse, is a hot topic right now. We recently took a look at Salesforce Content, an integrated content management system (CMS) for sales teams using salesforce.com. In an effort to make knowledge workers more efficient, Salesforce has created a unified workspace where the user can access content from multiple sources, […]
Read MoreThis coming Sunday morning, while most people are asleep, the United States and parts of Canada will switch to Daylight Saving Time at 2 a.m. local time. This is in accordance with the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and once again is three weeks earlier than in previous years. If you don’t think that these […]
Read MoreOn Wednesday, Amazon.com released Kindle for iPhone and iPod touch, a program for reading electronic books on those devices. The software is available free from Apple’s App Store and allows users to read books purchased on the Web or via a Kindle eBook reader. I downloaded it to an iPod touch shortly after it became […]
Read MoreProductivity is a term you may hear on a daily basis but have you ever stopped to consider its meaning, especially within the context of knowledge work and knowledge workers? It probably isn’t what you think it is. Promises of productivity increases frequently come from technology vendors in the course of promoting their offerings. Few, if any, appear […]
Read MoreGoogle’s Gmail system was down for 2.5 hours earlier this week, the sixth such outage in the past eight months. It isn’t unusual that an e-mail system crashes, but most such occurrences are limited to one organization. When Gmail, a service Google touts to businesses as more reliable and easier to use than Microsoft Exchange […]
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