Thanks to broadband and mobile technology, the tools and the very nature of work are changing, but are corporate IT policies keeping up? Only 34 percent of the 1,303 end users surveyed who had an acceptable use policy in place felt that they adhered to it all of the time. As I outlined in a recent post of GigaOM Pro (sub. MORE >>

James Robertson of StepTwo posted his slides for a recent presentation entitled, Ten tips for succeeding at collaboration (with audio). Ten tips for succeeding at collaboration [+ audio]. Recognize when collaboration will work. Understand where collaboration fits in. Identify an owner of collaboration. Of course! MORE >>

Keeping your team using just one or two channels of communication makes collaborating significantly easier. Such a policy can help ensure that all communications are recorded and easy to reference in the future. Tags: How-To collaboration communication Enterprise But one is easy to overlook: communication. MORE >>

This list also includes policies called; Staff blogging policies, enterprise social network guidelines, Employee Blogging Policies, Staff engagement in online communities, and so on. Kinda cool that companies are now posting internal policies publicly. GM Motors Blogging Policies  [link]  . Opera  [link]. Thanks. MORE >>

Joe Burton, CTO, Session Notes: Why is an architectural approach towards collaboration important? Example1: collaboration-enabled CRM process. Note: Reminiscent of "Collaborative CRM" concept defined by Meta Group years ago which has morphed into "Social CRM". That's a question Cisco wants to answer - point tools are not enough. MORE >>