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Why The Internet Is Falling Apart And We Need A New Virtual City Hall: Osmio And My Trip To The ITU
Just a week today I took a train to Geneva to join a special meeting at the ITU. The agenda was set to cover issues of e-security, privacy and identity management. But this was not a public seminar or conference. This was a private meeting of five, to discuss a new possible virtual municipality: The City-Hall of Osmio....
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-March 16, 2005

Bioteaming: A Manifesto For Networked Business Teams
As enterprises gradually decentralize their operations and new networked business ecosystems start to find their way into profitable niche marketplaces, virtual, networked business teams gradually emerge as the wave of the future. To be successful, virtual, networked business teams need a strategic framework in which to operate. They also need good planning and in-depth project analysis, effective and accessible technologies, constant coaching, systematic fine-tuning, feedback processes and the full understanding...
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-March 6, 2005

Free Trial With The Surprise: GoToMeeting Got Me
I am here to report an unpleasant experience I have just had with the extremely effective online service from Citrix, GoToMeeting, which allows anyone on a PC to easily share a PC screen with anyone else on the Internet. Rather I have fallen prey of one those marketing and sales strategies that I despise and criticize the most. Citrix GoToMeeting, is one of those services, that while offering an online...
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-February 25, 2005

Customer Advisory Council Debuts At Intranets.com: Online Collaboration Companies Finally Start To Listen
It is today's news that Intranets.com, a company that provides online web-based team collaboration services, has decided to open ears and a forum to listen to what their customers really want. Photo credit: Nara Vieira Da Silva Regardless of how much of the Intranets.com decision is part of a marketing tactic or of an effective change of attitude from this company, this is a great, very positive sign: it is...
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-February 24, 2005

The Online Collaboration Potential For The Networked Small Business Company
Small technology consultancy firms understand better than anyone else the importance and potential of online collaboration technologies, beyond what is served to the dominating and more visible cororate marketplace. Photo credit: Sorin Brinzei Online collaboration is not reserved only to the large enterprise or the multi-national corporation. Small businesses and individuals can leverage the potential of collaborative real-time and asynchronous technologies as much or more than large organizations can. The...
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-February 21, 2005

How To Deliver A Mac Presentation To Distant Viewers? Lawrence Lessig Finds Out
Lawrence Lessig, the Stanford University Professor, famous for his battle in support of individual rights to share and re-use content on the web, is asking the readers of his blog to help him find out which is the best way to deliver a remote presentation that includes video clips, audio, images and graphics. He writes: "Today I experimented with making a presentation remotely. If you've seen me, and my presentations,...
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-February 18, 2005

The Collaboration Challenge: Approaches, Dangers, Best Practices
"Collaboration isn't an easy destination to reach. But while the journey might be arduous, the payoff once you arrive can be well worth the effort." Photo credit: Mark Robbins The above is extracted from an excellent article written by Alice Dragoon for CIO online, Australia magazine for online executives. It has lots of good insight, and lots of concrete information about the experiences and issues discovered by those that have...
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-February 6, 2005

Cross-Platform Support For Conferencing And Collaboration Tools Must Be A Top Priority
Dear Robin, I am indeed very happy with the focus on Kolabora.com, and most of the time it almost frightens me to see a lot of my own views reflected in many of your articles and reviews. :-) I indeed appreciate your efforts to further the access to these online collaboration technologies, while staying focused on providing objective information, giving access to free try-outs, and keeping a good eye on...
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-February 3, 2005

E-learning Future: With or Without Teachers?
When you read reports about the future of e-learning such as the latest ACTeN - Anticipating Content Technology Needs report of June 2004 you get the impression that e-learning is and will be void of any teachers. Traditional classroom-based training initiatives are seen to be "disruptive" when compared to the freedom, that e-learning brings: access to knowledge anywhere and anytime. The role of the teacher is reduced to a mere...
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-October 26, 2004

Rearchitect Security: It's A Jungle Out There!
In his latest Alertbox column published just a few minutes ago, Jakob Nielsen acknowledges finally the dire state of the Internet and the urban jungle it has become. Security issues are rampant and if you are to judge by the number of security reports, patches and other prevention mechanisms and policies being put in place by most IT departments, things are only getting worse by the day. Jakob writes: "Computer...
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-October 25, 2004

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