In “In the Air: Who says big ideas are rare?”, Malcom Gladwell describes how Intellectual Ventures works to bring together really smart people from different disciplines -physicians, physicists, inventors – in the hopes of generating a vast number of profitable patents. The company puts a group of creative, inventive people in the same room and [...]

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Since we come face to face with it so frequently in the enterprise, it’s always a good idea to keep abreast of what SharePoint offers when it comes to E2.0. I blogged before about how Microsoft is avoiding rolling content creation capabilities into the platform to preserve other revenue streams, but there is  still a [...]

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The Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technology blog just posted on the best way to update a blog on SharePoint. They suggest two pieces of client software:

Microsoft Word 2007 or
Windows Live Writer

While I’m sure both of these are great programs, and good ways to generate rich content; promoting the use of client software as a [...]

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Jay and I had a banging good time today attending Jive’s Clearspace Administrator training. Our instructor for the session, Ricky Palmer, gave a great run down on the robust capabilities available to the man (or woman) behind the curtain. We had seen the latest release of the product, but this session gave a much better [...]

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OK sports fans…As you may know (but might care less), Jay and I are headed to the 2008 Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston on Jun 9-12. It should be a real barnburner for the ones and zeros crowd and hopefully I won’t add Massachusetts to list of states I am embarrassed to show my face [...]

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