After a couple of weeks organizing my thoughts, here’s my attempt to string together, in one run-on sentence, my key takeaways from the 2011 Forrester Content & Collaboration Forum:

Organizations should be striving to create an engaged workforce – which generates collaborative content containing mission critical knowledge worthy of harvesting – by strategically implementing an information workplace that seamlessly integrates the right combination of email, calendaring, intranet content, instant messaging, web conferencing, video conferencing, team sites, document management, wikis, blogs, microblogs, and the enterprise social network… and for the love of God, it better be mobile-enabled, and all else being equal, let’s put it in the cloud.

Now you know what you’re doing in 2012.

I’ve recently completed a white paper that details a methodology employed by CapTech to deliver a SharePoint 2010 collaboration portal for an international client.  Blending Agile and Waterfall practices, CapTech delivered successfully thanks to a variety of benefits afforded to the client and CapTech by the methodology (dubbed CT Hybrid).  The full white paper is attached to this post, but here’s a sneak preview of its Conclusion: