Tag Archives: email

01/11/2010 Posted in Back2Basics, Sharepoint, Solutions, time savers 1 Comment

What a Difference a Minute Makes

By Ben Kepes
OK, so the song talks about a day and we’re talking about a minute, but allow me some creative license here. The recent SharePoint challenge demonstrates how real life users can save about a minute each time they use the harmon.ie sidebar to access sharepoint, to upload an email to Shar
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21/06/2010 Posted in enterprise, General 1 Comment

Rackspace Gives Email Users Choice

By Ben Kepes
Tweet I believe that all generic technology services should be outsourced. Anything that doesn’t provide a point of differentiation for your business is a candidate to move to the cloud. One of the first applications in this class is, I believe, email. Beyond security of your data, there is no com
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09/07/2008 Posted in Business, Collaboration, Design, Efficiency, IT 1 Comment

The prognosis for email…

By Ben Kepes

Over on RWW, Alex Iskold posted about email, asking whether or not it is in danger. Alex pointed out that there are some threats to email, in the form of Twitter, Instant messaging and SMS. Alex came up with a diagram to illustrate the areas that email has traditionally been

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17/06/2008 Posted in Business, Collaboration, IT, New business, New Zealand, SaaS, Strategy 1 Comment

OnlineGroups out of Beta

By Ben Kepes

I received notification today that OnlineGroups is out of beta and has been released. GroupServer powers email lists with a web forum interface, that supports file-sharing and chat. They aim to achieve the equivalence between the email and web interfaces that Yahoo! Groups and Google Groups have. The difference is

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13/06/2008 Posted in Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0 1 Comment

LinkedIn replacing email? No time soon…

By Ben Kepes

Over on RWW, Bernard posted suggesting that LinkedIn is both a Gmail and an Outlook killer. His rationale seems to come from the fact that LinkedIn mail is always up to date (as member update their own records it doesn’t rely on first a contact remembering to notify a change

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Ben Kepes is an analyst, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include a diverse range of industries from manufacturing to property to technology. As a technology commentator he has a broad presence both in the traditional media and extensively online. Ben covers the convergance of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users. More on Ben

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