Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is becoming a popular term around the web these days. For starters, Aragon Research calls BYOD a phenonomenon -- users are deciding for themselves and leveraging what are the best productivity tools to be most effective.

Interestingly, I just produced an article about Microsoft Lync Online, the web conferencing and online meeting application that gives users flexibility to initiate meetings anywhere and anytime.  Is the product flexible enough? In Computerworld,  Julia King's article,  "The Upside of Shadow IT"  cites examples of empowered employees making buying decisions outside the corporate structure.  More importantly, it's about IT's needs to partner with organizational teams to help make the best decisions.  What I mean is,  collaboration tools need to be more flexible - in the end, to satisfy specific needs of teams and functional groups.

Aragon is hosting this first webinar, BYOD - Your Future Workplace, on Friday, May 18, 2012, at 1:00 PM.  I first spotted the event on Twitter (where else?) through Jim Lundy, CEO and Founder of Aragon Research. To learn how will BYOD evolve and give value to an organization, register for the webinar on Aragon Research.  BYOD.

On Pinterest, a group board named Mother's Day Gift Ideas is offering contributors to pin gift ideas. The group board is gathering attention on other social networking sites, including Facebook and Twitter.  My coverage of Pinterest Group Boards is timely, with a focus on ways to use social networking that can improve collaboration and engagement. Read More...

The company, 37signals released the new Basecamp, its flagship product, in the first quarter 2012. Lots of new features--kudos to the team for its bright, friendly, and collaborative user interface. One feature in particular,  "loop-in" is a remarkable new function to help teams collaborate with others not involved in the project.

Offering seven ideas to loop-in your colleagues, partners, or boss, I wrote about this functionality because I feel strongly this will have significance for a wide range of projects.

As many Basecamp fans understand, the company, 37signals does not hype its products--they're known for design simplicity and ease of use. Also, Basecamp users are loyal, according to a company survey reported on its website that 97% would recommend the product.

The new release of Basecamp, however, does not include time tracking.   Read More...

Video meeting technologies are providing new formats for business communications that make everyone shine--and rightly so.

iMeet, a new video meeting tool I evaluated,  received the prestigious Edison Award's silver in the Media/Visual Communication category for best new innovation in Business Communications. Edison Awards are built on Thomas Edison's heritage of America's innovations in the global economy.

Putting the shine on business communications in video meetings is no small task. Borderless Executive Search, a firm I recently profiled demonstrates video meetings can be effective for executive candidate screening.  In fact, this topic raises concern whether technology may actually replace in-person meetings. Read More...