Building a SharePoint Team

January 19, 2012 Help and Advice

One of the big challenges in the industry right now (both for internal environments and consultancies) is hiring and developing a SharePoint team. In a recent podcast with Brett and Rob we discussed this very challenge and things you should consider when building up the people resources for a SharePoint implementation. Here is a direct [...]

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Eight Key Considerations When Implementing SharePoint 2010 Social Capabilities

December 10, 2011 Help and Advice

Over the past year I have worked with many companies rolling out SharePoint’s social features and have found that there is a minimum of eight things that every company should carefully consider when rolling out features like MySites, User Profiles, Tags, Notes, Activity Feeds, and Blogs. This article will outline why each consideration is important [...]

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When are people going beyond SharePoint for social functionality?

December 10, 2011 Help and Advice

For many people the built in SharePoint 2010 social capabilities, while limited, meet the needs of the business. For many organizations still piloting or evaluating the use of social technology and SharePoint’s limited feature set meets their business needs. However there are many others who aren’t satisfied by the capabilities provided by SharePoint and are [...]

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Evaluating Cloud Providers: Tools and Questions

December 1, 2011 Business

Struggling with evaluating cloud providers? Interested in moving to the cloud but not certain what the risks are and what you need to consider? This article is focused around sharing some tools and techniques I have found to help when performing the often difficult task of comparing or evaluating cloud providers. On a fairly frequently [...]

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Intranet Tools: The User Adoption Activity Listing

November 28, 2011 Adoption and Engagement

I have released a new tool that I use when working with clients supporting effective user adoption. This tool is a listing of over 50 commonly used User Adoption Activities. The purpose of this listing is to help highlight other activities or methods organizations are using to improve user adoption. You may find some activities [...]

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Intranet Tools: The Intranet Component Listing

November 26, 2011 Help and Advice

I have released a new tool that I use when working with clients defining key pages within their Intranets. This tool is a listing of over 50 commonly found Intranet components. The purpose is for the business to pick out the components they want on their page, then to prioritize these components, and take this [...]

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Update to SharePoint Development Standards

October 12, 2011 Governance

The SharePoint Development Standards have been updated with a few minor SharePoint 2010 specific tweaks, the addition of database access recommendations, and a PDF/Word version of them for easier download. One of the secret hopes I have for updating this set of standards is that many community thought leaders and SharePoint experts will tell me [...]

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The 5 Teams You Need For Effective Governance

August 18, 2011 Governance

A short time ago CMSWire posted my article which outlines the importance of having structured Governance teams and what each team should be composed of/be responsible for. Be sure to check it out. Keep an eye out for my next two follow up articles where I will introduce an optional sixth team that I have [...]

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Focus ‘on SharePoint’ (and the Cloud)

July 5, 2011 Governance

Lately I have been really enjoying the format and content on Focus.com. In particular the SharePoint discussions have been great. The format works well for surfacing great comments and answers to interesting questions. Later this month I will be facilitating my first free Focus.com web panel on SharePoint in the Cloud: Evaluating Impact, Pros, & [...]

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