I was struck by a line out of a Burton Group document that I’m reading.
>… the creation of user groups… are the human equivalent of a technology integration strategy.
In Service Oriented Architecture, I.T. Portfolio Management and Model Driven Architecture; Center’s of Excellent (CoE) are a key part of the infrastructure. A key to [...]

I gave a talk at the Common Solutions Group meeting on Social Software, Web2.0 and Folksonomies a couple of weeks ago. What followed was a very interesting discussion about the implications, possibilities and difficulties in dealing with social software in an academic (or enterprise setting).

I have discussed with several people the need for a group of peers that would meet regularly. This group of peers (GOP - nah, already in use) would focus on the practice on the I.T. Architecture in Academia
At the highest level, they would:
* Define I.T. Architecture and Enterprise Architecture within Academia (and government) [...]

Presentation on Web2.0, Social Software and Folksonomies for the Common Solution Group in May 2006. Here is the link to the PowerPoint slides
The links that I used for the demo are below.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 came across a post on Lifehacker on the Printable CEO. Printable CEO uses a set of goals which are weighted with points. You then set up your Task List based on how they align to those goals. Then you can say, “I want to accomplish 20 points of stuff [...]