Project Management 2.0
by Dave Garrett
New technologies, concepts, and Web 2.0 tools are popping up everywhere. How can you use them to help your project team collaborate, communicate - or just give your project an extra boost? [Contact Dave]
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Situation: You're in Need of a Way Around Your Email System's Attachment Issues.
 A while back, I reviewed SendThisFile - which allows you to effectively send large attachments to people via email. Now, there is a tool called Driveway, that is a bit more user friendly.
At some point, we've all tried to send something larger than our email systems allow - a picture, a presentation, whatever. Both Driveway and SendThis File allow you to post those files to a secure remote server and include links to them in the email you send. So you're not actually sending the files in email, but you're getting them there, which is the important part.
SendThis File is very straightforward, offering you just go their site, upload your file and grab the link. Driveway does the same, but also offers plug-ins that allow you to do it from your desktop and collaborate on documents directly on the remote server. Another consideration is that SendThisFile has no size limit, while Driveway limits the size to 500MB. As the Driveway folks say, "Size Really Does Matter". |
Posted on: August 25, 2007 09:10 AM
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| Situation: You're in Need of a (Big, Blue) Overall Social Networking Framework...
 One of the things that we're quickly learning here at gantthead is that it's nice to have a bunch of Web 2.0 applicaitons and gadgets around, but the real power is in pulling it all together in a cohesive way. You'll see a lot more on that from us in the coming month. A few hours ago, I received an email from an IBM employee, Shayne Phillips (PMP) calling my attention to what IBM is doing in the space. Of course, it's a comprehensive Web 2.0 framework, built on the Lotus platform.
Regardless of the buzzword being applied, Lotus has ALWAYS been VERY collaboration-focused. Lotus Connections is a really cool approach in that it grew up as IBM's internal system before it was released to the public. The video below will give you a quick view of the interface,which is surprisingly clean and simple.
A side note ------ I've got to applaud one thing that both IBM AND Microsoft are doing currently - allowing people to plan and execute their work in a more natural way. Neither is all of the way there yet, but both are making great strides. On the IBM side you have (often reusable) activities intergrated with the rest of the connections environment. The Microsoft equivalent is Tasks in Outlook, that now have far deeper integration with Sharepoint and MS Office tools like Project. Moves like these will eventually take a lot of the administration out of work and make tracking just a natural output of doing the work itself.
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Posted on: July 29, 2007 08:39 PM
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Situation: You Want To Hear The Latest Watercooler Talk...
 Wurkpal is an anonymous online complaint forum, where people can bash their employers, etc. online without fear of retribution. It's also a place where bosses can log in and see what's being said about them. Whichever side of the bashing you're on, its worth looking at briefly. Obviously if you're not from large company, you probably won't see a lot of activity. For example, I was happy to see that there's no gantthead-bashing going on here. |
Posted on: July 29, 2007 12:06 AM
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Situation: You Have No $, but Need Something Like MS Office...
 ThinkFree is a FREE set of Software as a Service applications that not only claim to be an MS Office replacement, but they look a heck of a lot like the MS Apps they are aiming to replace. There's nothing to install and they give you 1 GB of free storage on there site. Once you have the documents stored on the ThinkFree site you can invite others to collaborate on them with you, tracking changes, etc. along the way. There's also something called Doc Exchange where you can share your documents with the world - allowing others to rate them, copy them, and easily publish them to their blogs. |
Posted on: July 28, 2007 11:56 PM
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Situation: You Really Need to Get the Hell out of a Meeting... (in a polite way, of course)
 The Popularity Dialer is a free service that will call your phone at a scheduled time, allowing you to end a meeting with "that guy that goes on and on about his next networking event" - or whomever you're trying to avoid. The boss call is particularly good, because it goes on for a while. |
Posted on: July 25, 2007 02:14 PM
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- Jack Handey
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