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The company I work for, Océ , has a clear track record as a sustainable company. Way before it became the hot topic it is in these days. Every year we have a Sustainability Week to focus even more on this topic. During this week an interesting whitepaper was released. It is about 'All in Balance. Océ's eco-efficient and eco-effective approach to analog and digital document'. Reference is made to a paper I wrote with others about (personal) document processes. I hope you enjoy the whitepaper. If so leave a comment below or here .

I prefer to read longer articles (even blog posts...) on paper. For instance I read Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan articles. Our corporate library allows me to read those articles in hard-copy. Of course the librarians have access to the digital sources of these magazines, but I don't. What I usually do is browse through the magazine and make copies of the articles I want to read (or I think are interesting for my colleagues). In this way I can read them when and where I want. When I read articles I usually write comments in the sidelines and highlight what I find interesting and important to remember. These marks are very important to me. So important that I would archive the hard-copy of the article in binders. At least until recently. If I could get my hands on a digital copy I would file that one on my computer with the comments. Over time I've collected many articles and found that I hardly reuse those articles in my work. Filing them is hard and therefore ...

Thomas Baekdal has a very interesting post titled "Where is everybody?" His post comes along with a really nice visualization to prove his point (refer to his blog post and the picture I added into this post). It would be interesting to extend this post and visualization with other kinds of information. For instance, office documents, flyers, etc. Baekdal also leaves out books. Books would come in between 'local marketplace' and 'newspapers', I think. And office documents (like Word docs) came around 1990-1995? I remember typing my first report in WordPerfect around 1993. At that time you were still allowed to write your report in handwriting. Wow, time flies! --- If You Read This and Like It, Tweet This to your Followers: Where's Information Headed? http://twurl.nl/56qrqe Tags van Technorati: information , information management , information architecture

ReadWriteWeb regularly keeps us posted on "the internet of things". This is an interesting development and has even been called "web 3.0" (web 2.0 moving to devices, connect people and devices automatically, using semantic technology...). Their post gives an overview of the news in this world. What I was wondering though is: Paper is also a thing. And knowledge workers are still using lots of paper (printed articles (for reading and reviewing), books, etc.). Could "the internet of things" be extended to the office? We could 'internet' paper. With small (printable) RFID tags, paper documents and books (or even parts of them) could be retrieved (and stored) in a transparent way. What do you think? Could this be useful? And, does anyone know if this is already being done? Tags van Technorati: paperless , office , knowledge worker , web 3.0 , web 2.0

A small 'brain fart' (idea). One of the great things about paper is the fact that you can put pieces of paper side-by-side. This is great when you have to review a document or check difference between documents. This 'feature' of paper is not supported well in the digital domain. eReaders and computers have a hard time mimicking this. However, using multi-touch screens , like Microsoft Surface , brings this concept closer to the digital domain. Then again, most people don't like to read from a screen. Reading from an eReaders seems to better (more paper-like). I carpool to work. Yesterday on our way back we were talking about the affordances of paper vs. digital documents. And then we wondered: why can't we combine what eReaders are good at with what multi-touch is good at? We would then have a screen that could be integrated into our desks, giving us lots of freedom to move documents around, annotate and resize them, search on them, pile them, etc. But, b...

Just wanted to point you to this. Your traditional sticky note (I use lots of them!), but on epaper . Looks really cool. Could be a mini-wiki too! [Thanks CNET for the pointer]

ReadWriteWeb had a nice overview post on "Slideshows 2.0" . As I commented I was hoping they would also mention something about 'slideshare for the enterprise'. But this doesn't seem to exist... However, Flowgram contacted me following my comment and we had a nice chat about my 'needs'. I'm really curious who will be the first to offer an enterprise 2.0 version of Slideshare ! Anyway, I didn't know Flowgram before and was invited to try it. Here's what I think of this webapp. First of all, the user-interface is great and very intuitive! I didn't have a problem sorting things out and finding how I could get something done. It just works! So, I just went on and made my first flowgram. (I didn't make it public yet, because it contain some stuff I don't want to share just yet.) The nice thing is Flowgram allows you to make a presentation consisting of all kinds of files (Office, links, RSS feeds, pictures, etc.). You simply se...

It's been a while ago since I found this, however I didn't have time to listen to it until yesterday... An interesting talk by Tim O'Reilly on Publishing in the new Web 2.0 world . Really interesting to hear how his company, a book publishing company, is keeping up with this new world and how traditional (paper) and modern (digital/web) publishing complement each other.

This post is not really intended for you, my dear readers. But you can read along if you like. Just wanted to collect lots of links on the Office 2.0 2008 conference after reading the posts and watching the video's. In short the conference was about 'doing everything in the cloud', interesting stuff on e-signatures, progress on virtual conferencing and creating successful communities (inside and outside the company). Here's my link collection: Office 2.0 Conference day one | Collaboration 2.0 | ZDNet.com Office 2.0 Day 1 Recap - ReadWriteWeb The Future of Documents - Document 2.0 panel at Office 2.0 conference The Office (2.0): No paper? No problem. | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com Office 2.0 Day 2 Recap - ReadWriteWeb Video: Office 2.0: Creating successful online communities | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

Wow! Esquire has an e-ink cover for its anniversary edition. Boing Boing isn't too impressed though: Esquire e-ink cover a pathetic disappointment.

Two interesting posts on 'going paperless'. One from BusinessWeek en one from Xerox Future of Documents blog . Enjoy!

This post "Who Says Print is Dead?" by ReadWriteWeb is interesting! It shows nicely how online media is slowly taking over, but does not (totally) kill printed media. Printed and online media seem to amplify each other.

Interesting Xerox whitepaper titled "The Less Paper Office: How to reduce Costs, Enhance security and be a Better Global Citizen" . I agree with the statement made in the whitepaper that paper is becoming "a more temporary medium". I see that people still like to read from paper, comment on the paper, but after they process the comments in the digital document, they throw away the paper document. In the whitepaper I missed why “paperless” is so hard (or what the real affordances of paper are). I appreciated the part on what Xerox is doing w.r.t. environmental issues.

Just wrote about the possible paperless office and home the other day. Here are two examples from practice of people telling us why the paperless office is not around yet. One is from Inside Knowledge on "The Simplest KM Tool", the notebook . And the other is on why some like to read printed documents/book and what the implications for the print industry.

Two nice posts here and here on why these two people think we won't have a paperless office any time soon. Although they do point to ways to make your office more paperless. I agree with both that we won’t have a paperless office any time soon. The book "The Myth of the Paperless Office" clearly describes the affordances of paper and that of digital 'paper'. Furthermore it shows why some affordances of paper will not be possible for digital documents any time soon. Try to make a pile of digital documents, for instance. However there are some interesting trends, like multi-touch interfaces , that give some hope for a paperless or less-paper office. As for now, I’m happy with both.