RichardCollings

Tom Gilb in an excellent paper on Principles of Clear Thinking said 'Assume that information from other people is unreliable, slanted, incomplete, risky – and needs checking' but asking challenging questions often gets you into trouble - RichardCollings

Useful resource on collaboration within organisations - RichardCollings

Interesting but worrying article about how a Google Mail account was hacked - RichardCollings

Google sites looks quite interesting as a simpler, easier to set up intranet/collaboration space (compared to Sharepoint). Planning to trial on a small scale project. We will see. - RichardCollings

Report on the failure of the Heyday project at Age Concern. It observes: "£6.7 million had been spent on the IT system commissioned from IBM. The system proved to have been over-specified for the numbers actually achieved and had experienced some problems in its operation, particularly around the time of launch. It was therefore abandoned, with the costs being written off." Without knowing more about the background, one cannot comment on where the blame lies for this 'failure' but this is not the first project where a charity has gone to one of the large IT companies, spent a lot of money and ended up with system which has not delivered the anticipated benefits - RichardCollings

IT Conference covering a range of interesting topics - RichardCollings

Claims to provide an online collaboration space that is suitable for small businesses - RichardCollings

Google is now using your previous searches and what you clicked on in these searches to personalise your search results. Stuff you have searched for previously or which you clicked on previously will be promoted in your search results. - RichardCollings

Tool for managing backlogs - I know one organisation that are make very effective use of this - RichardCollings

No comment - RichardCollings

Interesting post about whether cloud based collaboration software makes life easier (or not) - RichardCollings

Useful analysis of why this government consistently gets IT wrong (although I suspect the other lot will be no better) - RichardCollings

Depressing reading - it seems that the same mistakes are being made over and over again - RichardCollings

Hmm - is the outsourcing tide turning - RichardCollings

Video showing how Google Wave can be used with Salesforce in a Customer Service context - RichardCollings

Video showing how Google Wave can be used for collaborative business modelling - RichardCollings

Thoughtful article about the future role of taxonomies - RichardCollings

Some interesting examples of what can be done with WordPress - RichardCollings

Very interesting paper from Microsoft on how people use email - RichardCollings

Web based time/activity recording software which includes facility to block distracting websites for periods to time to help you focus. Recommended on MLO forum. - RichardCollings

Provides a pane in which you can track time being spent on a number of different tasks. - RichardCollings

Interesting enterprise collaboration space which very rich and innovative set of features. Aim is to provide a rich collaboration space - RichardCollings

One view of project managers - RichardCollings

Interesting article on what looks like a trial of a faceted search engine for Sharepoint 2007 - RichardCollings

One of a number of Sharepoint replication tools - RichardCollings

My partner has joined this scheme and is working with two groups of children in Hyderabad. It is an excellent project - RichardCollings

Recommended by David Gurteen. Haven't read but looks interesting - RichardCollings

Looks like a very interesting approach to time management and planning. Unlike some other techniques (eg GTD) it appears to include techniques for short term planning (ie: what can I get done in the next few days) which is particular weakness of mine - RichardCollings