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Real World SharePoint Experiences

I attended a breakfast meeting sponsored by Knowledge Management Associates, Inc. about all things SharePoint. There were four presentations: Dispatches from the Front Lines – Themes and Trends in SharePoint UseSadie Van Buren Training Approaches to Drive SharePoint AdoptionPam Conway SharePoint Best Practices Conference RecapTim Farrell and Marcel Meth Microsoft’s SharePoint Investment AreasTara Seppa I [...]

Microsoft’s SharePoint Investment Areas

Tara Seppa from Microsoft spent some time at the Real World SharePoint Experiences conference to give us some idea about what direction Microsoft is taking SharePoint. . . . . Omitted at the request of Microsoft. Apparently the information was not ready for disclosure. Lastly, Tara pitched the the SharePoint team blog as place for [...]

SharePoint Best Practices Conference Recap

Tim Farrell and Marcel Meth of Knowledge Management Associates presented some of their notes from the recent SharePoint Best Practices Conference. Tim and Marcel attended the SharePoint Best Practices conference in DC Sept 14-17. Marcel is seeing a trend where extranets and intranets are collapsing. He is seeing companies deploy in a secure site outside [...]

Training Approaches to Drive SharePoint Adoption

Pam Conway, Vice President at  CompuWorks gave this presentation at the Real World SharePoint Experiences seminar. Pam talks about the purpose of training.  Sure, it is about acquiring skills.  But that is only one piece of the puzzle. Pam’s seven points for training: Acquire skills Improve skills Inform Communicate Sell Connect Reassure You want to [...]

Dispatches from the Front Lines – Themes and Trends in SharePoint Use

Sadie Van Buren of Knowledge Management Associates gave this presentation at the Real World SharePoint Experiences seminar. Sadie also blogs at A Matter of Degree, a Microsoft SharePoint / Information Architecture / Web Usability blog. Sadie showed some client reactions and surveys on their use and adoption of SharePoint.  The clients surveyed covered a broad [...]

Enterprise 2.0 Progress Report

We have continue to wiki-fy content at The Firm.  SharePoint treats wiki pages as documents and gives them high rankings in search results. They are quickly becoming the preferred way to capture information and knowledge in the firm. The SharePoint wiki tool is simple, but that makes it easy to teach people how to use. [...]

What to Do with Sharepoint Wikis

I have expressed my displeasure with the Sharepoint Wikis: Sharepoint Wiki Disaster.  We have been looking at wiki platforms to replace or supplement the Sharepoint wikis. One platform is Atlassian’s Confluence. These are the answer we received for a few of our questions: Thanks for your interest in our award-winning enterprise wiki, Confluence. Sorry for [...]

SharePoint and XMLaw

I watched a presentation by XMLaw of their OneView suite of information management tools for SharePoint and in particular, their OneView Connect product. OneView Conncet is a framework for connecting systems and building portal sites. OneView ties into other data systems in the firm and allows you display the content from those other systems in [...]

Enterprise 2.0 Progress Report

In early April we rolled out Sharepoint 2007, upgrading our intranet platform from SharePoint 2003. I have been keeping track of the number of wiki pages and wiki libraries. As of today we have: wiki libraries: 9wiki pages: 313, which is a 50% increase over the past month’s 205 Progress has been a bit slow [...]

How to Use Your Computer – Sharepoint Development Example

Mark Miller at EndUserSharePoint.com has been running with my idea of using separate pages in a Sharepoint area to host a collection of user support documentation: Pages and Sites in SharePoint 2007 (Case Study). He has turned that into a screen cast using an alternative method of organizing the documents using content types: A Beginner’s [...]

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