I will be blogging from the Office 2.0 Conference[1] for the next two days.
It’s a set of tools that I have been interested in for a while–blogs, wikis, content management systems, chat/IM, VoIP–with a focus on enabling small teams to work more effectively against a deadline. This is the challenge that software startups need to surmount if they are to win the battle of maneuver against their larger, better funded, and more established competitors. I think one of the primary benefits these newer tools offer is that a small team can maintain a shared situational awareness in complex and rapidly evolving environments/markets.
I had the pleasure of sitting next to Ori Weinroth from Microsoft, during the morning sessions. I was surprised to learn that they also had a product family called Office, because they were not listed as an participant.
[1] Update Jan-18-2011: Office 2.0 website www.office20con.com has been taken over by spammers, links deleted.
I wish Apple (ical) and FileMaker were there.
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Hi Sean,
Just came across your blog and noticed your comment:
with a focus on enabling small teams to work more effectively against a deadline. This is the challenge that software startups need to surmount if they are to win the battle of maneuver against their larger, better funded, and more established competitors.
Collanos does precisely this, allowing teams to work more effectively through context-based workspaces as opposed to email and other scattered solutions or expensive enterprise solutions. Oh, yes our solutions are free (More along the line of P2P 2.0).
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