The 5 Must Avoid Enterprise Collaboration Mistakes
Today I had the privilege of presenting a webinar for PBworks on 5 must avoid collaboration mistakes that I see companies making quite frequently. If your organization is interested in enterprise collaboration then you may find this presentation valuable. The 5 risks that I discuss are: Lack of s supportive culture Not listening to the […]
Investors Are Job Applicants
Start thinking of investors as job applicants. Many entrepreneurs make the mistake of investor promiscuity–they’ll get in bed with anyone with an open wallet. You need to be as picky with potential investors as you are with potential employees, if not more. Remember, you can’t fire your investors. Conversely, investors should figure out how they […]
PBWorks Bets on a World Where CRM Meets the Actual Customers
PBWorks is launching a new version of their product today (see previous coverage of PBWorks here) that is aimed at solving the problem of traditional CRMs being siloed and closed to external customers. In the process they’ve invented yet another three letter acronym – Customer Relationship Collaboration or CRC. While I’m not enamored with the […]
The SaaS applications wiki – open for business
Over on AccountingWEB’s forums (you need an AWEB account to log in, but it’s free) there have been some heavy exchanges discussing the barriers to adoption of Cloud solutions by accountants in practice in the UK. I found it interesting, but sadly the dialogue has been too vendor driven, with plenty of verbiage from the […]
Pbworks Ups The Ante With Real Time Collaboration Features
When Zoho projects 2.0 was released, I wrote a post about the evolution of project management. In the post, I talked about the nature of Project Management 2.0 Project Management 2.0 can be considered as the combination of traditional project management with collaborative and social components In the same post, I also dug in […]
Selling the Case for Accelerating Business Performance with Enterprise Collaboration
Oliver Marks and Sameer Patel – two of the leading lights in Enterprise 2.0 (that is experience in actually doing it rather than merely talking about it) presented this session. Their aim with the session was to move from “pontification to real world discussions” – a noble objective. In discussing “the Big Idea” around Enterprise […]
Why Getting Social Is Necessary (But Not Sufficient) For Business
image courtesy of HubSpot There’s a lot of social in the air these days. I was chatting with Jeremiah Owyang of the Altimeter Group, and he said that there was even talk of scrapping the term “Enterprise 2.0” in favor of “Social Business”. While I do believe that social is necessary, it’s definitely not sufficient, […]
Pbworks Adds Social Component To Their Project and Legal Editions
In June this year, Pbworks (formerly known as Pbwiki) launched the Project Edition, an integration of project management tools with the traditional wiki. This edition was directed towards freelance consultants, advertising firms, design firms, etc. in such a way that the project management becomes an organic outgrowth of the real work done by these businesses. […]
The Evolution Of Project Management And Zoho Projects 2.0
Project Management 2.0 can be considered as the combination of traditional project management with collaborative and social components (see our previous PM 2.0 coverage). Project Management tools have evolved very much from the days of traditional approach using Microsoft Project. It is only natural to evolve from the traditional tools that actually didn’t help much […]
Pbworks Marries Project Management With Wikis
PBworks, formerly known as PBwiki, yesterday announced the release of Project Edition. This edition combines the power of wiki collaboration with the ease of project management tools. This edition is directed towards freelance consultants, advertising firms, design firms, etc.. From the early days of a powerful wiki vendor, this company is evolving into a multi-dimensional […]
