zzFree Sharepoint & more Web 2.0 mediocrity

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　　Free Sharepoint & more Web 2.0 mediocrity
by Toby Wardon Wed 13 Feb 2008 09:18 PM PST
　　Aninteresting post I did a couple of days ago on the free version ofWindows Sharepoint Services and the surprising breadth of availablefeatures (from Setting-up a free Sharepoint intranet:
Ü      Announcements
Ü      Calendar
Ü      Contacts
Ü      Tasks
Ü      Projects
Ü      Wiki
Ü      Blog
Ü      Message Board
Ü      Image Library
Ü      Forms Library
Ü      Shared Documents
Ü      Surveys
Ü      Meeting Workspace
 
　　Read my full post Setting-up a free Sharepoint intranet at the Intranet Insider blog on Communitelligence.com.
　　“Collaborativetools are overloading employees and killing productivity—to the tune of$588 billion a year, according to a January study by Basex, acollaboration technologies consulting firm,” writes Brian Watson of CIOMagazine (see Web 2.0: Too Good to Be True?). “It’s the money-saving argument that’s getting pushback lately.”
Web2.0 does not deliver the ROI, does not live up the hype, and is noteven close to being a top priority for senior management (not all, butmost).
 
A CIO Magazines study, Top Technology Priorities for 2008finds that even techies don’t consider Web 2.0 as a priority. A surveyof 250 “top IT executives” from a collection of small, medium and largeorganizations doesn’t even touch on the issue of Web 2.0.
 
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