“The use of corporate portals continues to pick up steam among large companies. The key seems to be the desire for organized information and a place to direct internal marketing.”

From: Corporate Portals Ready For The Big Time – Report

“The onslaught OF dispersed work forces along with increased competition and shorter product cycles means collaboration between employees and business partners is at a critical juncture. Collaboration tools are an important means for turning the travel time and expense of old into work time and increased profits.”

From: Create working offices on the Web

one of the local new jersey papers just did a story about us and boy do i love miss-quotes, “Peloso says his product is better than Excel” (where did that come from?)

Nick Denton the CEO of Moreover, writes about “How rumors, leaks, and news online have transformed the Internet’s impact on business”

an interesting paper on collaboration by jon udel: “The goal of Internet groupware should be to reclaim the original vision of the Web as a medium of collaboration. It’s no accident that vision arose in a scientific milieu since the enterprise of science is so deeply rooted in collaboration.”

From: Internet Groupware for Scientific Collaboration / Draft #3

“Collaboration is a fundamental process in any enterprise, as well as between enterprises.” a quote from The Gartner Group’s report on Building a Collaborative Environment: Who Needs What?

“…a recent IDC survey of prospective ASP users showed that collaborative software is the most popular “current or preferred use of ASPs,” with more than 60 percent expressing a taste for hosted groupware.”

From: Groupware Grows Up

this sounds like a job for consentcache …

White paper: “How Knowledge Management Makes Customer Satisfaction a Strategic Asset”

Read the summary or dowload the PDF

wow! i wish i could have been this subversive when i was in highschool.

Aaron Swartz writes, “School harms kids! You may not believe it at first, but it’s true. In America, we have a mandatory public school system that destroys children’s minds and molds them into slaves of the establishment.” in his schoolyard subversion blog and he’s only in 9th grade!

i have to agree with aaron. i hated the left-brained method of teaching i experienced in school. subjects seems disconnected, collaboration was contrived and testing didn’t show how well a student understood a subject, it only demonstrated how well they memorized facts. IMHO, education is a holistic experience.