Sometimes you just need a little ad-hoc network to get something done at a meeting.  Maybe you’re at a coffee shop with buds and want to push a file back and forth.  Maybe you just need to share something fast.  Vista has this capability built-in, and I got a chance to play with it a little when I had another Vista machine here to set up.  Thing is that not everyone has Vista.  I’m sure there will be an XP client for the People Near Me thing, but what if you don’t want to wait?  What if you want something …read more

Another good post from WebWorkerDaily.  They list the core tools for distance collaboration.

Email
Phone
Text chat
VOIP
Web Conferencing
Document collaboration
Group online document sharing
Wiki
Shared calendars
Message forums
video chat

No doubt that these are extremely important.  I use all of them, except for wikis.  No doubt as well that video and web conferencing has made use strides since I first tried them in 2000.  I think there should be some other things that are important.  I think there is a mental toolkit you need.  You need independence, mental toughness, a get-it-done (even in you PJs) attitude.  You also have to take risks.  Big risks.
How about you?
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I caught this on Download Squad this morning.  The movie says it all, so I’ll let you watch it, then we’ll chat.

Ready?  Is that freakin’ awesome or what?!?  I’m blown away.  Like the folks at DownloadSquad I’ve requested early admission into the Scrybe beta test group.  Since this blog is so new, I’m going on the rest of my major bloggy coolness … hmm I think I’m asking a lot here.  Regardless I can’t wait to try it.  I do have some questions, though.
First, how is it going to sync with the tools you’re using now.  I’m thinking Outlook and …read more

Caught on Techcrunch this morning a new service called SlideShare (blog is here) that looks like an interesting solution for hosting PowerPoint slides online, kinda like YouTube.  The service is in limited access beta so I can’t give you a review at this time, but I did request a login so I hope to have that soon.
The interface looks pretty interesting and the blog has a couple of examples and suggested uses.  Following the comment thread on Techcrunch, though, there are questions about what you’d share (at this time everything is public) and, more worrisome, who owns the content once …read more