The right collaborative writing tool can make the process a lot easier, if only because multiple users can log in and check for updates, without needing to send around a copy for approval every time even a small change gets made. All writing tools are not created equal. How to Manage Consumer-Grade Collaborative Tools in the Workplace. MORE >>

If the future of work is mobile and independent, featuring more accountability but less loyalty and rigidity, then what sorts of tools will this new reality demand? Or to think of the same question from a different angle, what tools will help speed our present toward that future? New tools meet old realities. ” he says. MORE >>

Read on for a roundup of ten tools to get politically savvy this this election season and beyond. Using some cool visualization tools, you can get all kinds of specific data on the wheres and whats of government spending. Oddly enough, neither candidate has said anything so far about Google, Gmail, or YouTube, according to those tools. MORE >>

Microsoft is rolling out a new feature in Hotmail that creates interactive e-mails that bring the Web into messages. Microsoft said the advance is the next logical step for e-mail, as it evolves from text and rich HTML to JavaScript. That will be one of the things Microsoft will likely monitor with its pilot program. MORE >>

Microsoft design point is to co-mingle structured collaboration tools alongside social computing tools - it's unrealistic to think of social computing disconnected from collaborations strategies. Microsoft also thinks of the IT Pro. This situation also causes users experience is fractured across too many tools and silos. MORE >>