Taking on SharePoint with a marching band – behind the scenes
Posted on 25. Jan, 2012 by Ashleigh.
Monday 3 October 2011, 7:45 am: More than 130 people scramble into position, horns blowing, drums rolling, cheerleaders chanting, but all I can hear is the sound of my heart beating. This is it, the moment Huddle has been preparing for and I’ve been coordinating for more than nine months: Huddle is about to take [...]
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At Huddle, we’re big believers in the fact that collaboration isn’t just about working with the people sitting at the desk next to you, or even teams in other departments, it is about sharing information with your entire business community – internal teams, customers, partners, suppliers and contractors. One of the challenges faced by organizations [...]
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I spent Friday and Saturday at GovCamp 2012, along with 250 others, comprising of civil servants and other stakeholders with an interest in using technology to make public services better. Huddle has been a supporter of GovCamp for a number of years and it’s great to get together with old friends, customers and meet new [...]
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It’s that time of year again! GovCamp takes place every January and brings together people with a common interest, in the way technology is being used to improve and deliver public sector services. Huddle has been a proud sponsor of GovCamp for the past few years and we’ll be supporting the event once again this [...]
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Many of the London-based public sector organisations I work with are about to embark on home-working dry-runs. Before the Olympic celebrations kick off in London in July, public sector staff are testing how they can ensure that it’s business as usual when it comes to getting their jobs done. At Huddle, we run our entire [...]
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Working on a pan-government project? Learn how Huddle can help…
Posted on 05. Jan, 2012 by Pauline.
We’re seeing an increase in the use of Huddle across government where multiple government departments are working together. If you’re involved in a pan-government project or programme, join our free hour-long webinar on Wednesday 11 January at 10am to learn how you can use Huddle to collaborate and share information across government. We’ll talk about [...]
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Huddle unlocks the knowledge in your inbox and integrates with VMware Zimbra
Posted on 14. Dec, 2011 by Alastair.
At Huddle, we’ve always insisted that, while email is a great communication tool, it is a terrible collaboration tool. If you’ve ever tried to get feedback on a document or presentation from teams across your entire organization, you’ll be familiar with the pain of emails going back and forth, clogging up your inbox! For enterprises [...]
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October product update: Changes to files, new meeting functionality and an Android App
Posted on 20. Oct, 2011 by James Pipe.
At Huddle, we recognize that our product updates can have a big impact on your working lives and make collaborating with other people far easier. This month’s updates should improve not only the way teams store their content and the overall meeting experience, but also the way that they work with people when on the [...]
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The sheer volume of files used in modern business can be bewildering at times. Word documents, spreadsheets, databases and PowerPoint have been around for decades now, but have been joined in everyday use by jpeg, mpeg, tif, gif and png to name just a small selection. The rise of those image and video files has [...]
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SPC11: Huddle’s highlights and marching to the beat of our drum
Posted on 04. Oct, 2011 by Alastair.
Yesterday was a big day for Huddle. Not only did we announce another record quarter and the addition of Simon O’Kane to the Huddle team, we decided to go and make a lot of noise at Microsoft’s SharePoint Conference #SPC11 . For those of you who missed the action, take a look at some of the highlights [...]
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So – you’ve got your European start-up running nicely; revenues are growing, you’re hiring like mad, you’re being courted by VCs and the local tech press think you’re the best thing since SpinVox. Well, SpinVox circa 2008, anyway. Ahem. However, like all big-thinking entrepreneurs you realise that there’s more to life than London / Paris [...]
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Following on from yesterday’s post, here are some more tips on moving to the Valley: Hiring a US team Once your US company is in place and ready to trade you’ll probably want to think about hiring. Hiring in the US is broadly the same as hiring anywhere else – don’t hire people you might [...]
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In my role as a customer engagement manager here at Huddle, I frequently get asked how other organizations have made online collaboration work for them. Plenty of organizations have tried to implement an online collaboration platform and failed, so they are hesitant to try again. In my experience, there are a few key points which [...]
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A few weeks ago, I presented at Internet World in London on the death of the traditional enterprise. Here are my thoughts. So, why the death of the enterprise? How will it die exactly? Of old age? With the decay of time? I believe it will die in battle. We are on an unavoidable collision [...]
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As promised on Wednesday, here is the second part of my musings on the death of the traditional enterprise. Death of the traditional enterprise – IT and users on a collision course View more presentations from Zuzanna Pasierbinska-Wilson So, how secure is the cloud? I can only speak for Huddle. Our cloud-based application has multiple [...]
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Note: This is update number three to this blog post (recycling FTW!), having originally appeared on this blog last May with an updated version posted on Telegraph.co.uk in February. I also used it as the base for my talk at FOWA London last October. I’ve amended this post with some new ideas and stuff I’ve [...]
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Last week saw two notable security and uptime snafus. Firstly, cloud sync and backup startup DropBox left a gaping security hole in their application after a product upgrade last weekend. According to The Register, a bug in DropBox’s authentication system enabled anyone to log into any account and access their content. This was fixed after [...]
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Even as recently as the 1990s, collaboration in the workplace was something you only really did with the people you sat with. Yes, you could email colleagues in other locations and go through things with them over the phone, but neither email nor the telephone are true collaboration tools. Now we live in the era [...]
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In today’s 24/7 digital economy, it’s hard to believe that just a decade ago many organizations were still trying to establish how – or even if – they could deploy email in their offices. Now, thanks to the mass adoption of high-speed communications and advances in hardware and software, the office can be wherever your [...]
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Another record quarter, the addition of a Salesforce exec to the team and taking on SharePoint
Posted on 03. Oct, 2011 by Alastair.
Today is a big day for the Huddle team – and I’m not just talking marching bands. With the market for cloud collaboration increasing exponentially, we are delighted to report another record quarter and the fact that we’re on track to triple sales year-on-year. It also gives me great pleasure to officially welcome Simon O’Kane, [...]
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As many of you are already aware, Huddle hasn’t been shy about taking on the big boys and going head-to-head with SharePoint. We are firm believers that expensive legacy ICT systems, such as SharePoint, are no longer meeting the requirements of end users and IT departments. In fact, I’m not convinced they have ever met [...]
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Over the last few weeks, Huddle’s product team has been working hard to ensure that our users can now interact directly with Huddle via email. The team has also improved the user experience of Huddle’s email notifications. Reply by email At Huddle, we recognise that a lot of information continues to be distributed within and [...]
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In its simplest form project management is the co-ordination of a company’s business into smaller, bite-sized chunks – ‘projects’ – which involve communication and cooperation across different parts of an organization. But since the advent of project management in the early 60s, it has been an area of business that has seen a number of [...]
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Project management resources: Three great books about project management
Posted on 10. Nov, 2011 by Alastair.
It is safe to say that when it comes to choosing reading matter for a summer holiday, project management books rarely make the cut. But that’s not to say there aren’t some incredibly useful books out there, which cover everything from project management basics to the very best project management tools needed to get the [...]
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It’s interesting the different approaches that people take to dealing with deadlines and project time management. Some are uber-efficient, list-making autons that never miss a deadline, are hugely organized and ensure the rest of the team are fully in line too. Whilst others have a more haphazard approach; they don’t (or rarely) miss deadlines but [...]
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2011 has been a year of milestone birthdays in tech. September saw Google become a teenager, email hit the big 40 in June, and even Twitter turned five back in March. Perhaps the most significant tech birthday this year, though, was the World Wide Web itself turning 20. In 1991 British scientist Tim Berners-Lee posted [...]
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Planning and preparation are the least glamorous, but most important aspects of any project. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail,” said Benjamin Franklin and he makes an excellent point. Project planning is hugely important and if you get it wrong or fail to do it thoroughly enough, then whatever project you are [...]
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The sheer volume of files used in modern business can be bewildering at times. Word documents, spreadsheets, databases and PowerPoint have been around for decades now, but have been joined in everyday use by jpeg, mpeg, tif, gif and png to name just a small selection. The rise of those image and video files has [...]
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Last week, Huddle held its inaugural government cloud computing event, in partnership with FutureGov. The great and good came together from across UK government to discuss how cloud computing is transforming government IT. As our all-star cast of presenters gave their opinions on the cloud and provided some examples of how cloud tools and services [...]
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When I originally thought about writing this post a few weeks ago, Steve Jobs had yet to resign from Apple. However, his resignation and my original idea for a post, focusing on our addiction to information on the move, actually complement each other rather nicely. Jobs has succeeded in transforming the way we consume information [...]
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With the best will in the world, information flow across an organization can often be fragmented. Even the most meticulously organized person can leave knowledge and content on their PC or mobile, ‘filed’ in their inbox or a pile of paper next to their desk or even in a dusty, un-used part of their brain. [...]
