Thoughts on thinking
August 14th, 2009 | 
Author: As a linguist, I’m increasingly fascinated by the articulation of ideas – where do we get the words that we use so easily and effusively in our daily conversations?
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Ticking the boxes
I was recently speaking with someone in a call centre about renewing our subscription to a weekly marketing journal. I was a little dismayed, because I had resubmitted our subscription three times previously – once by their web-enabled procedure, once using their pre-printed form, and once by fax. Apparently none of these methods had worked, so ‘phoning seemed to be the next route to explore.
Software – the alternatives
We’ve been working in the SME/SMB sector for nearly 20 years, and over that time we’ve used and experimented with an awful lot of software. Why?
Open-source collaboration
Over the years, we’ve been keeping a very close eye on open-source content management systems, wikis and other collaboration platforms. Finally, about 18 months ago, we took the plunge and set up our extranet using open-source software (switching away from a Microsoft SharePoint-hosted site in the process).
Evolutionary mysteries
What with everybody celebrating Charles Darwin’s 200th, I find myself musing once again on the mystery that is evolution. While creationism has always seemed ridiculous to me – the equivalent of holding a double-barrelled shotgun to your head and pulling one of the two triggers – I have to say that the randomist view of evolution that irritatingly self-satisfied men such as Richard Dawkins witter on about also offends me.
Leaf Networks
Leaf is an extraordinary product – it amazes me that so few people know about it or mention it – and for the small business that is moving to a virtual model, with employees working remotely or from home, it is one of the best existing solutions to the far-from-resolved Collaboration Challenge (pace Microsoft SharePoint, with which I have wrestled to the point of psychosis!).
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