Thanks for the feedback. Much appreciated!

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on Office 2.0, and we’re delighted that you include Foldera in your “most interesting” list. I entirely agree with you regarding some of the Office 2.0 applications handling more structured data types vs. unstructured approaches with blogs and wikis — that’s definitely what Foldera is all about. Things like calendar items, workflow cycles, and to dos are very structured things that can be fudged in a blog or a wiki, but not done perfectly. Nonetheless, blogs and wikis definitely have a big role to play in Office 2.0, either as a replacement for authoring documents using Microsoft Word, or as a brainstorming mechanism for collaborative input. Some of the “Office 2.0″ applications use wikis as a tool within a more structured environment.

Finally, prior to joining Foldera, I prepared a model for thinking about and designing collaboration tools for the enterprise. If you are interested in how I structured it, see 7 Pillars of IT-Enabled Team Productivity. It is a vendor-neutral way for thinking about where different types of collaborative capabilities are needed by a work / project team.

Kind regards,

Michael Sampson
Global VP of Word-of-Mouth Marketing
Foldera, Inc.
 http://www.foldera.com

I agree with you, Office 2.0 still is in its infancy, and users fall into the category of bleeding-edge pioneers. Mainstream adoption is several years away. That being said, I believe that some large businesses will find niche applications that work for them. Salesforce.com’s largest customers are a good example for this I believe.

I totally agree with you. The typo has been fixed.

Thanks for the mention of our product (although the name of it is actually “GroupSharp”, not “GroupShare.”) I’ve enjoyed reading all of your Office 2.0 posts, this is an exciting area and we’re happy to be a part of it. I think that this post touches upon a very interesting point - the web office is not going to look like the desktop office. You’re not going to open up your online spreadsheet program, then switch to your online word processor. It’s going to have different models of integration and different features. We’re listening to users and working our butts off in trying to develop this new type of office.