Burton Group talks about the distinction between Channels and Workspaces in Collaboration. Channels are routes where information flows. Workspaces are areas where collaborators gather. Examples of Workspaces are Wikis, shared document repositories, group calendar software. Channels are things like email, chat, VoIP, video conferencing and telephony. The problem with Channels is that we have to … Continue reading
Ben Teitelbaum of Internet2 pushes his availability to his web site from his calendar application. He “takes Apple iCal’s iCalendar file and strips out the subject, location and agenda for each item, leaving only an availability mask” which he feeds to PHP iCalendar. This makes scheduling time for a phone call with Ben very easy. … Continue reading
This link is a pdf version the Best Practices and General Requirements for Collaboration Tools document the Enterprise Collaboration Tools team developed about a year ago.
I would also like to be able to tag calendar events with keywords then bring up a list of events that match a given keyword or suite of keywords. I have a bunch of presentations that I am giving on my calendar. I don’t remember what all of them are. I would like to search … Continue reading
My laptop and my palm both understand Time Zones. I understand Time Zones. Why don’t my calendar applications (Oracle’s Calendar and the Palm Calendar in the handheld) understand Time Zones. What I want: (1) When I create an appointment I should be able to mark the Time Zone for the appointment. I should also be … Continue reading
