A Discussion on Collaboration Software Clients with Phil Leigh at Inside Digital Media
Phil writes:
Summary: What if you lived in New Zealand, but your work required that you collaborate on projects with customers located in the United States? We don’t think you could do this without a superior knowledge for the practical application of real-time PC-to-PC collaboration. Moreover, neither does our guest today who lives in Christchurch and runs a consulting business that helps customers utilize the tools available today. He also helps collaboration vendors design their products to be meet the needs of users in the future and thereby remain competitive in this fast-moving and challenging market.
Today, PC-To-PC collaboration involves effectively utilizing one of, or a combination of several, among five generic software clients: (1) email, (2) instant messaging, (3) RSS, (4) collaborative workspace, or (5) Web Conferencing. Our guest today provides a compelling analysis of the benefits and drawbacks of each application and outlines his ideas for one “Super Client” that integrates all of the features currently isolated in each tool.
He will be publishing a research paper next month to explain what the “Super Client” will look like and how it can be implemented. Earlier papers available at his website thoroughly analyze the strengths and weakness of today’s tools and tell us how they may be most effectively employed for the present.
Subject: Today’s guest is Michael Sampson of Shared Spaces Research & Consulting. Michael has been an active researcher, analyst and consultant in the messaging and collaboration field since 1994. He works with customers to understand their current technology platform, their future business strategy, and then advise on the best alignment of technology and business strategy.
Length: The narrated PowerPoint presentation is covered in about 38 minutes.
Today’s interview is a Slide Show with voice-over of the conversation between Michael and me. To see the show, visit www.insidedigitalmedia.com and click on the interview for September 21st.
