Research in Motion, a mobile device company, will reportedly introduce a new BlackBerry with a slide-out keyboard as well as a large-screen tablet that will serve as a companion device to its smartphones later this year. If the latter sounds familiar, there’s a reason why it does. Not too long ago, back in May 2007, […]
Read MoreSocrates was relentless in his pursuit of knowledge and truth and this eventually led to his death In The Apology, Plato writes that Socrates believed that the public discussion of important issues was necessary for a life to be of value. “The unexamined life is not worth living.” In the olden days, before the Web, […]
Read MoreOnce again, information overload and attention management are front-page news. Matt Richtel at the New York Times wrote yet another piece on this topic that appeared earlier this week in the New York Times (in the interest of full disclosure, Matt interviewed me for background information as he was preparing the piece). Matt’s written on […]
Read MoreImagine a world without the collaborative tools we take for granted today. Decades before the emergence of the Internet and World Wide Web, computer pioneers were building Plato, a system that pioneered chat rooms, e-mail, instant messaging, online forums and message boards, and remote screen sharing. Social computing and collaboration began on Plato in 1973. […]
Read MoreThe somewhat elusive key to understanding Information Overload, and thus developing meaningful solutions to lessen its impact, is to first develop a clear picture of the amount of information that individuals receive and consume and also develop an understanding of how much information is too much in a given circumstance. This is a tricky set […]
Read MoreThe latest buzzword in document creation is collaborative work. While there exist various approaches to support collaborative work and varying definitions of what the term means, they all revolve around tools that allow knowledge workers to work together on documents. Indeed, collaborating in the creation of a document can take different forms. With cloud-based solutions […]
Read MoreThe sheer volume of content that is generated by an organization in this day and age is nothing short of staggering. Even more daunting is the task of managing that information for compliance and record keeping. The records that an organization must keep clearly qualify as content, and in today’s volatile economy and regulatory climate, […]
Read MoreThe world of the knowledge worker is document centric. As a group, knowledge workers spend significant time creating, managing, reviewing, and editing documents. A recent Basex survey of 300 knowledge workers revealed (not surprisingly) that 95% of them create and review documents on a regular basis.[For the purposes of this discussion, we define a document […]
Read MoreMicrosoft Office may be one of the world’s most widely deployed software packages. Indeed, with a user base of 500 million, any changes or updates to the suite are significant for that fact alone. In the upcoming Office 2010 release, there are many areas that have been retooled and refined; however, for the typical knowledge […]
Read MoreThe Innovation Lab is one of my favorite places to spend time during Lotusphere. For the uninitiated, the Innovation Lab is a large room with 20+ developers stationed at individual workstations showing off concepts that they are working on at the IBM Almaden Research Center. What is demonstrated is the software equivalent of concept cars […]
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