I was amused this week to see two examples of workflow getting sexy. That’s not how the developers describe their efforts, but the departure from old groupware notions is clear.

In daring defiance of Zawinski’s proclamation, Jeffrey McManus, with Approver.com, and Karen Greenwood Henke, with Nimble Net, are tackling workflow and approval processes.

Posted August 6, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: approver.com, groupware, Jeffrey McManus, Karen Greenwood Henke, nimble net, sexy software, social software, stuff that gets you laid, workflow, Zawinski's proclamation. 2 Comments.

Zach made me take another look at Zimbra, the web-based, web 2.0-smart, very social and AJAXed up collaboration, email, and calendar suite (plus some other goodies).
Go ahead, watch the Flash-based demo or kick the tires with their hosted demo. I think you’ll agree that it looks better than anything else we’ve seen yet. Part of [...]

Posted November 14, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: ajax, calendaring, collaboration, communication, communication model, demo, email, enterprise, groupware, groupware collaboration, mail, mailboxes, spam management, unified messaging, web 2.0, zimbra. One Comment.

They say “Zimbra is a community for building and maintaining next generation collaboration technology.” What I’d like to know, however, is whether Zmbra is a community driven, social software answer to the problems of groupware — typically driven by management’s needs.

tags: collaboration, collaboration technology, community needs, community, groupware, management needs, open source, oss, social software, [...]

Posted September 25, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Technology. Tags: collaboration, collaboration technology, community, community needs, groupware, management needs, open source, oss, social software, software, zimbra, zimbra collaboration suite. 2 Comments.