By Phil Hippensteel
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Jun 29, 2007
From corporate communications to customer support, a video stream is the next best thing to being there. Here's how to make it work on your network.
By Serdar Yegulalp
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Jun 25, 2007
The next version of this professional-level blogging solution boasts a revamped interface, an open-source licensing option, and an impressive range of new features.
By
Peter Rysavy
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Apr 27, 2007
Mobile IM can be a powerful productivity tool, but IT groups are prone to dismiss it as a consumer-focused novelty. Here's why you should keep this technology on your radar.
By Phil Hippensteel
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Mar 30, 2007
The Wi-Fi-based iFind provides a novel way to let groups of people find one another, set up meeting times or work together. Although ideal for a campus environment, iFind could have plenty of commercial practicalities as well.
By
Andy McDonough
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Feb 19, 2007
Here's everything you need to know about creating an affordable podcast-ready PC and professional studio for creating high-quality podcasts.
By
David DeJean
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Dec 28, 2006
This "meat-and-potatoes" collaboration service offers enough services and administrative features to be taken seriously.
By Ron Miller
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Dec 18, 2006
Mozilla's open source e-mail client tweaks the interface and adds features but doesn't lose its simplicity and usefulness.
By
Mike DeMaria
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Dec 15, 2006
Success in 2007's new world of user/community-driven content will involve increased maturity in corporate blogs, wikis, podcasts and Webcasts, and more experimentation with video as a sales and marketing tool. Plus keep watch for advances in enterprise e-mail, unified communications and VoIP adoption.
By
David Strom
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Dec 7, 2006
More than just a substitute for e-mail, group chat is a productivity booster that's becoming a must-have app in the enterprise. Here's what to consider as you assess how to integrate the technology into your infrastructure.
By Benjamin Tomkins
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Nov 5, 2006
Blogger Ben Tompkins gives his take on how Yahoo CEO Terry Semel is responding to some of Google's recent competitive thrusts. Not so good, he says.
By David DeJean
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Oct 23, 2006
Google Reader is only the latest addition to the pantheon of Web-based RSS readers. How does it rate compared to Bloglines and Newsgator?
About Network Computing's Collaboration Channel
On Network Computing's Messaging and Collaboration Channel, our real-world technology editors cover the products, technologies and services that enable users to communicate more effectively with one another -- things like e-mail, instant messaging, video conferencing, blogging, podcasting, wikis, Web collaboration and more. The Web has revolutionized enterprise communications, and so-called Web 2.0 technologies have taken those capabilities to yet another level. E-mail remains the key enterprise communications tool, but users expect more and more out of their enterprise electronic mail systems. Long-time enterprise mail solutions such as Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange and Outlook continue to serve the enterprise well. But users today are also looking for more flexible solutions, whether it is Web-based email alternatives such as Google's Gmail or mobile solutions from Blackberry, Palm, Microsoft and others. Instant messaging has long been established as a messaging mainstay. For IT, IM presents unique challenges including security, accountability and more. Enterprise IM systems help IT take control of enterprise-wide instant messaging. Finally, our editors are covering the emergence of completely new Web 2.0 approaches to enterprise communications that put the user at the center of a social media experience. Blogs provide users the ability to broadcast their written messages to the world, with packages such as Blogger, Movable Type, WordPress proving blogging platforms for the masses -- and the enterprise. Podcasting and videocasting lets users express themselves via multimedia. Wikis provide a collaborative, interactive environment for editing and updating content. And finally, new Web 2.0 technologies like social media sites, remix approaches to creating content and open social media APIs offer new, powerful ways of creating messaging and collaboration applications. On our messaging and collaboration channel, learn about all these new technologies and more. Check out our reviews, tests and analysis of messaging and collaboration software and tools. And don't miss the latest news, white papers and featured sites on the topic of messaging and collaboration.
