A good friend, teacher, grad student, and former hi-tech consultant, recently blogged about and eWeek article which noted that many executives think telecommuting is a limiter to career growth. I posted a reply over on Libby’s blog but also thought it deserved a bit more thought. I will try to describe my experience with telecommuting for a large technology company.

Businesses call it “Collaboration Software” whereas the rest of the world calls it by whatever program they are using - “chatrooms” “forums”, “bulletin boards”, etc. This is definitely true of persistent chat solutions. The idea has been around longer than text messaging. The concept has roots in AOL chat rooms, message boards, BBS’s, even list-servers.
The [...]

Upon reading a commentary from Irwin Lazar, Carl Tyler asks
Is instant messaging the death knell for email?
I think the answer is “no”. What I do believe is that individuals will gravitate to a single interface to whatever content they use most.
Email, IM, Blogs, Web, and applications all have their own user interfaces. When these start [...]

I use Lotus Sametime 7.5 (and soon 7.5.1) for instant messaging at work. the memory usage is a bit tough to swallow but some of the integrated features more than make up for it.
One thing has bothered me. From the start, I tried to create some informative status messages so people could better decide how [...]

This may seem like a simple question but it is one that is confusing me greatly these days. We use Lotus Sametime at work. We are only allowed to use it to chat with people who are also on Lotus Sametime. So, what to use for everyone outside the corporate walls and when I’m not [...]