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September 04, 2008

What will our office be tomorrow?

Today I had the pleasure of spending some time with David Allen and some of our other team members as David was the opening keynote speaker at Office 2.0, a conference dedicated to exploring how technology and next-generation web applications are changing the way we work and collaborate.

Office 2.0 is all about exploring and discovering the future of online productivity & collaboration. Imagine a future where all of the applications, data, and collaboration lives in "the cloud," a metaphor for the increasingly ubiquitous web. In the future, instead of using your computer to get to the web, you'll be using the web to get to your computer. Considering that most of the coaching that I do now is for clients who are on either Outlook, Lotus Notes, or Entourage, I felt a bit like a technology dinosaur at this event. It's not clear to me exactly what directions this kind of technology will take the implementation of GTD - but the possibilities are exciting.

Here are a couple interesting links if you want to explore more about what the future of "office" might be for you.

Here's a great little article with seven key definitions of Enterprise 2.0 concepts from E20portal.com, a great source for information and research about this area.

Google, with their Google Apps continues to roll-out new user-friendly applications that reside in the cloud, thereby helping you share, collaborate, and access all of the things you are working on. Here's a posting from InfoWorld with more perspective on how far they've brought us in being able to do our essential work through web applications.

Cool stuff.

Posted by mdolan at September 4, 2008 07:36 PM

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Posted by: Luke Rumley at September 7, 2008 06:39 PM