Alfresco Share Wants To Speak To You All

Last time i have been spend time to wrote some news right here is as much in the past as i can not remember when i´ve been wrote this. But as you fairly know - consulting is not an 8-to-5 job. And yep we all have something like a private life so i have been left to write a new posting here.

But now i gave some smoke about Alfresco Share again so you can smell the spirit of Alfresco Share and new powerfull features again.

Well my personal challange was actually that we have something like a “Gap” between the Collaboration-Tools we currently have and the users wants to collaborate with each other to produce worthwell knowledge. To be sure, Alfresco Share is just a powerfull tool where companies IT-chiefs and consulting-strengths to start to convince endusers so that they able to work with that tool and not trying to relying on emails (”Hey guy, ill send you my 90mb powerpoint presentation again as ive changed a bit on slide 3!”).

One feature i have been mist the whole time is to cover endusers “humanity”-and what is more like this rather than voice and face? Collaboration includes not only a nice tool where i can post text but also a tool which enables the power of voice and “sightseeing”. For instance a creation of a concepy starts normally on a whiteboard? How to you want to reach this by now? Right, you have to start a teamviewer session (peer-to peer) webex or somethlink Adobes Connect Framework. Yes this works for sure - but do we need this all the time? Can we use a more “proper solution” which could be a little bit smarter? Smarter in such a way a user must not engaging itself to create a Webconference-Session, inviting colleques … Yes this is a turnover which is a obstacle in collaboration as you now - endusers “slackness” is a consequence through daily workign routines as well as “work pattern”. To break up this, we should not use a hammer instead something softer …

Now i want to introduce an integration between Alfresco and OpenMeeting. Through this integration you get the best of both worlds. On the one side, you get a powerfull set of collaboration tools to create content and documents and participate of “the flow of work” through Alfresco Share. On the other hand you got Openmeeting where you can start conferencing with your Share-Team about the current status through Voicing, Webcams and so on. The integration so far enables the user to connect automantically to Openmeeting through Alfresco Share component in the toolbar.

Now, if you pass the click you getting automatically connected into the conference-room where you can collaborate next level with you´re chatpartners like this:

As you can see, you particapte on techniques which are already available on the market since one decade like webcam-support. On the left side you can see all the users which have been connected to this room. On the right side the moderator is trying to create a high-level concept for a customer.

Now the cool part is, if your done with your meeting, you can transform the content which has been created through the meeting into a document and startover in alfresco share to particapte on these nice features.

May 18, 2011 | Filed Under OpenMeeting, Alfresco