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Collaboration: It’s about the corporate culture!

August 23, 2012 – 7:57 pm

Technology pundits, consultants, and academics often see the latest online technologies, Generation Y, Work/Life Balance are the drivers for online collaboration but it takes more just one of those elements or fads to drive collaboration.  It really is about the total culture of so I’ve found during my time as a contract technical writer.

Corporate culture has to promote online collaboration in order for it to be successful. It gives employees the space and tools for success to collaborate with their coworkers, contractors, and external customers.

Some integral elements of a collaborative corporate culture include:

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My Latest Tablets in the Enterprise Post: Extend enterprise collaboration to tablets | TechRepublic

April 12, 2012 – 6:53 pm

Today’s model for enterprise collaboration isn’t just about PCs and Macs anymore. Collaboration needs to extend to tablets, not only because of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), but because tablets are playing an increasing role in many businesses. You need to implement a strategy and appropriate technology choices to help your organization extend enterprise collaboration to tablets — whether they be BYOD or company-owned — without a loss of communications or productivity.

via Extend enterprise collaboration to tablets | TechRepublic.

 
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Collaborate With Adobe FormsCentral

August 20, 2011 – 4:00 pm

I’ve had some experience creating forms in the past and watched forms creation move to tools like InfoPath and eventually onto the web. But one thing that still managed to bother me was that forms creation was still the realm of the individual contributor: “the forms guy”.  Now, it looks like with the latest updates to Forms Central that Adobe is making forms development into a collaborative versus an individual experience.

Now with Adobe Forms Central, users creating forms have some useful sharing and collaboration options that help set it apart from other forms creation tools. Clicking Share in the lower left hand corner of the screen brings up a menu of options including:

  • Move it to a shared workspace
  • Distribute form
  • Add Collaborators
  • Publish Responses

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Why I Write About Project Management Applications

August 6, 2011 – 10:49 am

Back when I was writing for CNET Builder.com/CNET TechRepublic.com, I began writing about project management and project management applications in particular.  People have asked me why as a technical writer I write about project management applications since I am not a project manager much less even has PMP certification.

Well, I’ve long been interested in such applications because of their inherent communications element. Working as a contract technical writer for the bulk of my writing career thus far has exposed me to the good and bad of project management. I also became a staunch believer in the democratization of project plans, schedules, and related data.

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Why Johnny Can’t Collaborate

June 20, 2011 – 8:00 pm

As a technical writer, I am a believer in online collaboration. A collaboration platform includes document versioning, document security, and an audit trail that can benefit just about any organization’s document development life cycle. However, the fact that remains that too often is “Johnny can’t collaborate.” Online collaboration starts off with the best of intentions but seems to collapse like a house of cards when it hits a technical, political, or business process snag.

Platforms like SharePoint, Office 365, and productivity applications like Microsoft Office 2010 and even Adobe Acrobat enable project teams to collaborate on their documents online without having to email back and forth.

Here are some reasons why organizations can’t collaborate.

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Adobe Acrobat As A Collaboration Tool: My Opinion

June 14, 2011 – 8:36 pm

I  caught the news about the recent Crimson Consulting study about Adobe Acrobat as a collaboration tool and I am not sure I agree with the survey findings. Don’r get me wrong, Acrobat is great productivity tool but despite its growing feature set it remains underutilized in many organizations that have access to it but don’t use it to its full potential.

Acrobat’s best-known mission as an electronic document format, Adobe Acrobat as both an application and file format remain misunderstood in my experience having worked with both federal and commercial clients on projects where Adobe Acrobat was available to users. Adobe Acrobat, and especially Adobe Acrobat X, is a great product. Nevertheless, it is a product that the average user doesn’t know much about past saving a Word document in PDF format.

The survey took a look at Adobe Acrobat as a productivity enhancer:

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My Thoughts about Workflow in Google Docs

March 9, 2011 – 9:14 pm

I recently wrote about my initial thoughts on Google Cloud Connect and that with some volunteer work I am doing got me thinking further about workflow in Google Docs. Despite how much my technical writing work includes a process/workflow element and my writing on the subject in the past, I still see instances of where organizations stumble on what are seemingly simple document workflow tasks.

The workflow in Google Docs appeals to me on certain levels but leaves me thinking the seamless transition that the glossy marketing slicks could quickly lose its sheen on a live deployment without the proper end user training and support. For purposes of this post, I consider the document author to be the document owner.

Here is how a typical document workflow would look in Google Docs:

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Is that a Wiki in Your Pocket?

March 5, 2011 – 2:00 pm

Wikis are most familiar as server-based online documentation and collaboration tools. Now, the wiki concept has left the web server for the PC and mobile devices like the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. I am definitely an Evernote fan when it comes to note taking applications, but the melding of a personal wiki and a note taking application offers a power and flexibility  distinctly all of its own.

The challenge to these apps in my view is that even personal wikis are generally for users that are more technical since they require setup and use a markup language that can be lost on some. However, as enterprise wikis have become more user friendly, I want to see if their new mobile cousins are following suit.

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My Initial Thoughts about Google Cloud Connect

March 1, 2011 – 6:56 pm

 

 

 

Google Cloud Connect launched last week and it plays nicely with the complementary model vision I have for Google Apps and Microsoft Office. While I know Google Apps is chocking up some enterprise wins, we live in a Microsoft Office world (a harsh reality to some) so I like seeing tools that help bridge the gap between these two competing applications.

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Share Large Files

December 31, 2010 – 2:53 pm

My article entitled Share Large Files appears in the January 2011 issue of Smart Computing Magazine.

 
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