I'm a little bit excited! I attended a workshop at presentation at work today on Unified Communication & Collaboration or UCC for short. The presentation was given by one of our partners, HP . An outline of HP's view of UCC from a corporate perspective can be found here . The essence of the technology is that it allows communication in any way (ie with any connected device), at any time and from anywhere. It incorporates technology such as Instant Messaging, VoIP, Videoconferencing, Email all bundled up into one. The actual technology that is being looked at is Micosoft's Office Communications Server with Microsoft's business-based instant messaging tool, Communicator. This is going to be great . We're going to try this out in schools, just a few, to see how they get on with it. We're going to start with teachers, but the pupils will follow close behind, and we're going to see what the schools come up with, how they feel they can use it and what benefit...
because shift happens...