SharePoint 2010 in Action: US Olympic Committee Press Box
The US Olympic Committee recently announced a new press site built on SharePoint 2010. The new site, USOC PressBox, demonstrates the rich image capabilities available with SharePoint 2010's native Silverlight integration. Read more
SharePoint 2010 and Social: It can only get better
Seems like Microsoft is determined to position SharePoint 2010 solidly in the "Enterprise 2.0" space. Check out this really cool story about Microsoft's invitation to extend the SharePoint 2010 social platform and the winner of the SocialFest competition. Now, the question is what will happen to these 2010 extensions - will they be incorporated into the product or be developed and marketed as third-party add-ons?
Creating a Personal Brand - Inside and Outside the Enterprise
When I read about the LinkedIn and Twitter partnership late last year, I wondered whether people would really think that it was the "perfect combination" that Twitter founder Biz Stone was quoted as saying in CIO. I reached out to Mauro Cardarelli, a master Tweeter and my resource on all things Twitter for his opinion. He didn't mince words - he hates the integration and prefers to maintain separate identities: LinkedIn for business and Twitter for his "personal brand." Read more
Content Ratings "Inside the Firewall"
KM guru Stan Garfield posted a great summary of some issues with content ratings systems when they are used inside organizations rather than on public sites, in other words - "inside the firewall." Stan points out that inside the company, ratings are not as successful as they are on sights such as Amazon.com. I think Stan is right, for all the great reasons he notes in his insight. Read more
This just in ... Santa improving operations at the North Pole with SharePoint
CorasWorks issued a press release on December 22 describing how Santa Claus uses CorasWorks software on SharePoint to improve operations at the North Pole. With all the kids he tracks on his naughty and nice list, Santa will clearly be able to be able to take advantage of the large list capabilities in SharePoint 2010.
Enterprise 2.0: Great Advice on How to Get it Wrong from Andrew McAfee
I just returned from the 13th annual KM World conference this week and listened to a really interesting keynote from Andrew McAfee (the "king of Enterprise 2.0" according to KM guru Tom Davenport). McAfee summed up his talk with a list of basically how to get it Enterprise 2.0 wrong: Read more
To SharePoint from Paper - a best of both worlds SharePoint 2010 scenario
Imagine a scenario where you need to collect information on forms where carrying a computer is difficult or prohibited - court personnel collecting information in correctional facilities, construction personnel collecting walk-through information on job sites, or collecting data in a drug clinical trial - but where you want the results to be used electronically. The solution: Capturx for SharePoint Server from Adapx. Read more
SharePoint 2010: Magical Solution with New Organizational Challenges
In his keynote speech at the SharePoint 2009 Conference, taking place right now in Las Vegas, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called SharePoint "magical." The upcoming SharePoint 2010 release is certainly that - but it's also overwhelming. There are incredible improvements for SharePoint developers and end users alike, but there are also new opportunities to lose focus along the way towards building useful collaboration solutions. Read more
Meet me in cyberspace … interesting example of a virtual event platform for the Microsoft community
PartnerPoint, a virtual community of Microsoft Partners from around the world, announced a very cool virtual event platform this week. Read more
Tip for Getting Multi-line Text Fields from InfoPath to SharePoint
I had a form in production that a client was using to track requests for items that required justification. During testing, we noticed that once the form was submitted, the rich-text field in InfoPath displayed as a Single Line of Text field in SharePoint but the client was sure that all justifications would be short. Famous last words. Several users wrote novels and when (oops!) we added an approval to the request directly in SharePoint, we lost all but the first 255 characters of the novel! Read more
Keys to Creating Successful Global Teams
In early September, Knowledge@Wharton published an article called 'Locals,' 'Cosmopolitans' and Other Keys to Creating Successful Global Teams that anyone using SharePoint for team collaboration, especially global teams, should carefully review. Although the advice is geared towards global teams, any team will benefit from the useful suggestions summarized in the article. Read more
To require check out or not to require check out? That is an interesting question!
This week, a friend asked me for my thoughts on a really interesting question: should you enable the "require check out before editing" feature in MOSS 2007. The feature is a really good one if version conflicts are a business concern - by requiring check out before a user can edit a document, you completely eliminate the risk of accidentally overriding another editors comments with your own. But, the feature has some really annoying user experience implications ... Read more
Best of breed? Not always the best strategy for social computing solutions.
When it comes to social computing in the enterprise, it's absolutely critical to be sure that the technology you chose solves a real business problem - not someone else's problem, but a real business problem in your organization. To see any value from your social computing investment, people have to participate. To encourage participation, the technology has to be easily accessible from the user's "comfort zone." Read more
Have I got a deal for you! $200 Discount to KM World 2009
On November 16, 2009, I will deliver a pre-conference workshop at KMWorld 2009 in San Jose, CA where I will review best practices for creating meaningful information architectures for SharePoint solutions. The workshop will include some fun exercises and I promise to try to de-mystify the process of creating a successful IA for your SharePoint sites. To encourage you to join me there, InfoToday has provided a link to a $200 discount for the conference Read more
Helping Users Get Around Your SharePoint Site: Customizing Navigation
Microsoft has published some excellent resources to help site designers customize site navigation. Many of these resources are currently featured on the MOSS 2007 home page. Here's a guide to what's available. Read more
Amazing support tool for road warriors – TripIt and TripIt Pro!
This past week, I've been putting together the itinerary for our family vacation. My two oldest children live in different cities and I need to document all the arrangements so that they will each know what is going on and when they need to get on airplanes. I finally got around to using a service I signed up for months ago and I am totally hooked - TripIt. This is an amazing resource for vacation planners and road warriors like me - and it even has a social networking component. Read more
Usability Testing SharePoint Sites: A little testing can make a big difference
Even as an experienced information architect, I know that I will never get the design precisely "right" the first time. I always use paper prototypes to walk through a design. But even a design that has been reviewed and accepted by the "client" from paper can benefit from actual usability testing. This week, we did a very simple usability test that proved once again that a little bit of effort can yield major results in improving "finability" in SharePoint deployments. Here is what we did ... Read more
A Change Will Do You Good: Lessons from Change Management for SharePoint Solution Architects
An interesting article in Knowledge@Wharton this past week reminded me about how important change management is to effective SharePoint deployments. In this article, a change management expert at BP comments on why she believes that the corporate world is “addicted” to serial change management programs that consume lots of energy and resources but ultimately fail – only to be followed by another initiative in a year or two. Read more
Check this out: cool automated tools for designing and deploying SharePoint information architectures
Last week, I had a chance to get a demo of a cool product for designing and maintaining taxonomies for SharePoint sites called MetaVis Architect. The tool is designed for information architects – people who have the responsibility for designing an information taxonomy for a SharePoint site. Read more
6 Best Practices for Writing a Good SharePoint Announcement
Anyone with “contribute” or “member” privileges for any page of your SharePoint site can be a web content producer. That’s really a great thing, but writing for the web is not the same as writing for print, especially when it comes to Announcements. Here are a few tips for creating great SharePoint Announcements. Read more
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