Category: Collaboration

Real-time and asynchronous collaboration, formerly known as groupware. Sometimes included as part of “Enterprise 2.0”.

Groupware goes head to head. Good to see that the Good Ole Domino Versus Exchange Rivalry isn’t dead. The authors of this particular head-to-head picked Domino.

We should also mention that many companies are showing an impressive return on investment with Lotus Domino and we’re not surprised. It features a more consistent framework than Exchange, its common toolkits are more tightly integrated, and above all it’s a much better platform for developing applications. Quickplace was also our preferred application for sharing information among small teams. We were able to move around Quickplace much easier and it only costs $89 per user. ZDNet Aug 25 2003 6:40PM ET [Moreover – Knowledge management news]

Lotus certifications are being converted to IBM certifications. May 5th webcast:
http://pentonevents.webex.com/pentonevents/onstage/g.php?d=661557402 .

May 8, 2003, The New IBM Software Group Certification Program — How Does Lotus Fit In?
 
http://webevents.broadcast.com/slides/3690/4931/forms/register.asp .

Old and new certification names posted on the Lotus Certification Web site:
http://www.lotus.com/services/education.nsf/35ed29d961be6ad0852566da004c5cbb/af0260977a3cdc8185256d05004da486?OpenDocument .

Groove

Groove 2.5.

 
Team blogging

The scenario shown in the screenshot uses Tim Knip’s Groove interop tool — a Radio UserLand add-in based on Groove Web Services — to create a genuinely new experience of team blogging. Until now, team blogging has meant that a group posts to a common weblog. This setup does that too, but it also does something I find much more powerful — it synchronizes the inputs to the collaborative process, as well as the output. In this case, the input is the combined set of RSS feeds subscribed to by the members of the shared space. Everyone knows that everyone else is seeing the same feeds. Discussion can grow around items in those feeds, and can take various forms: replies to the forum that receives the feeds, IM-style text chat, Roger Wilco-style voice chat. [Jon’s Radio]