Quick Links, Feb 8

Positions

• Measuring Personal Productivity ... A couple of ideas for measuring your personal productivity, combining skill and focus. Productive Strategies

Positions

• CASAHL and Dimension Data in Australia ... Dimension Data is partnering with CASAHL Technology to help Australian-based Lotus Notes/Domino shops "optimize" their Notes/Domino environments, specifically consolidation and retirement of older programs, conversion of custom applications to new off-the-shelf software, and integration, extension, and migration from Notes to Microsoft's collaboration platform. CASAHL is working closely with Microsoft toward application migration. BusinessWire


• Jive Releases ... Jive Software released a beta of Jive Forums 5.0 (for online community forums, with question workflow, rewards, and routing) and Jive Knowledge Base 1.7, and pre-announced version 1.1 of Spark, its enterprise IM client. Spark 1.1 will be available on Thursday. Forums 5.0 and Knowledge Base 1.7 will be released in March, and will feature a user-based pricing model. prnewswire.com


• CallTower as Alternative to BlackBerry ... CallTower announced the CallTower Collaboration Suite, a voice and data collaboration system. CallTower says it can be used as an alternative to BlackBerry. Provides access to email, voice mail, faxes, and internal voice mail from a PC, cell phone, regular phone, or other mobile device. Interestingly, it appears that CallTower does not natively support BlackBerry devices. MarketWire


• GroveSite and PLAN ... GroveSite, a provider of web-based collaboration software, linked with PLAN (Partner Leverged Affilitate Network), enabling the latter to offer the GroveSite service through its coalition of partners. PRWeb


• Orative Enterprise Software 2.0 ... Orative released Version 2.0 of its Orative Enterprise Software, a presence-based platform for linking people using mobile phones. New features: corporate voice mail integration, resource finder, and more. Orative also joined the Cisco Technology Developer Program. Orative


• New Customer for NextPage ... NextPage announced that the Center for Human Resource Research has adopted NextPage 2, to help avoid document chaos. NextPage

Other Industry Happenings

• Email Importance Analysis ... Osterman Research reports on a recent survey of 331 email users, re the importance of email they receive. 15% are deemed "really critical", 38% are "important", 21% are "opt-in bulk email", 11% are "misc office chatter", and 17% are "spam". Network World

Comments

[David Falcon]

Please could you advise us on the best "professional" knowledge base/wiki software solution (online) for us Small Enterprise to manage our research material, in an attractive manner?

We would be extremely grateful.