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Entries in Email (8)

How Corporate RSS Supports Collaboration and Innovation

If you haven’t seen it yet, check out corporate IT manager Jim MacLennan’s RSS: Underappreciated Web 2.0 in the Enterprise blog post.

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What Happens When 20-Somethings Settle Down?

We’ve all seen the lists of things that differentiate younger generations from older generations. Here’s my own:

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Some Suggestions for Fixing Corporate Email

In my recent post Questions to Ask Before Replacing Corporate Email I listed questions management should ask about corporate email to help plan for adoption of more modern collaborative software applications. The idea behind that post was simple:

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Posted on Monday, April 21, 2008 at 12:30PM by Registered CommenterDennis D. McDonald in , , , | CommentsPost a Comment

Questions to Ask Before Replacing Corporate Email

This document discusses some of the questions you can ask about your organization’s current use of email and how improvements can be made. Also discussed is email’s impact on the adoption of new tools more suited to supporting workgroups and collaboration such as blogs, wikis, and groupsites for sharing information about people and projects.

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Associations, Management Control, and the Role of Social Media Tools

Jamie Notter’s post Web 2.0: Participation, Trust, and Beta comments on an earlier post by Virgil Carter titled Web 2.0: Culture, Belief System, or Tool-Kit?

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Project Blogs, Email, and Dual Collaboration Channels

Jim MacLennan, a seriously thoughtful corporate IT manager, recently published Update on Blogs as PM Tools - Tales from the Front Lines. There he made the following statements about the challenges of adopting blogs and wikis in support of project management:

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I'm Almost Finished Deleting All My Email Subscriptions

One of the things I’m doing to get control of my email is to cancel subscriptions where I receive unrequested broadcast or narrowcast emails from individuals, organizations, or news services. My goal is to dedicate my two main email addresses to personalized incoming and outgoing communications. I am making progress toward that goal.

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Posted on Friday, December 29, 2006 at 11:34AM by Registered CommenterDennis D. McDonald in , | Comments2 Comments

Mr. Lincoln's Telegraphy Practices and Modern Email

A while back I published an announcement about a new book by Tom Wheeler called Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails: The Untold Story of How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War. Tom sent me a note suggesting I also check out the book's web site, which is here. One of the things listed on the web site is a discussion of how Abraham Lincoln used telegraphy and how this might relate to modern usage of email.

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Posted on Thursday, December 28, 2006 at 12:45PM by Registered CommenterDennis D. McDonald in , , , | CommentsPost a Comment