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Office Jotter is the personal blog of Roger Whitehead, which he has been running since 2002. Roger gives broad coverage in it of computing and managerial topics. As the sub-title says, it offers "Tasty morsels on running the electronic business".
Deeper examination of product and supplier matters appears mainly in Roger's publications for Bloor, such as in his coverage of enterprise search and collaborative software (aka groupware).
Virtual worlds still a dream?
Irving Wladawsky-Berger: An Update on Virtual Worlds
1 September 2008
For the last three years I have been quite intrigued by virtual worlds and all the various capabilities we group under this term. I believe they are ushering a new paradigm for...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 3rd September '08
Poised on the mounting block
I'm getting myself back in the industry-watching saddle after my sabbatical. No doubt for the next few days I'll have the mental equivalent of aching thighs and a sore tochas. (Stop sniggering at the back there.)
I had during the year kept an eye on...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 28th August '08
It's gone quiet here (2007)
...and the reason is that I'm no longer on active industry-watching duty. I am taking a sabbatical for a year or so, with the result that I shall have little time, if any, to keep this blog current.
See http://www.rogersrambles.org for details of...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 2nd September '07
It's gone quiet here
...and the reason is that I'm no longer on active industry-watching duty. I am taking a sabbatical for a year or so, with the result that I shall have little time, if any, to keep this blog current.
See http://www.rogersrambles.org for details of...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 2nd September '07
If you really have nothing else to do with your time...
In yesterday's item, on social networking, I linked to some curmudgeonly mutterings on the subject from Patrick Barkham. They included these sentiments:
If you're single, every second spent perusing other people's photos on Facebook is a second less...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 17th May '07
Social networking for the non-technical
Guardian Unlimited Technology - Are you connected?
16 May 2007
This week came the news that William Wales had joined the social networking site Facebook. Yesterday there was much argument about whether it was a hoax or not. Would Prince William...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 16th May '07
All of a twitter
ThomasPurves.com - Where are we? Mobile Geolocation and Social Presence
7 May 2007
Someone at a party the other night was trying to explain what you could do with geolocation on your phone. The conventional wisdom is, it would be great because if...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 8th May '07
Still more on Enterprise x.0
Yet Another Software Blog: What's the big deal about Enterprise 2.0?
What's the big deal about Enterprise 2.0?
Entire blogs are dedicated to covering the topic, and we can't forget the exceptionally tortured semantic debate over what would be...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 30th April '07
Adding RFID data to the deluge
IBM Press room - IBM Launches RFID Technology to Extract Business Insight and Drive Value From Mounting RFID Data
27 Mar 2007
Today, at the RFID World Conference, IBM will unveil Radio Frequency Identification software that unlocks business insight...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 30th March '07
MRD applies
Chuck's Blog - Who Owns Corporate Information?
Much of modern management discussion revolves around the concept of ownership. Yes, we all work in a matrixed world, but - at the end of the day - there's some idea of who owns the overall...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 19th March '07