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Michael Sampson

User Adoption Strategies for Lotus Connections

Earlier this week, The UC View published my article on Lotus Connections, with a focus on end user adoption strategies. It’s called From Intermittent to Connected — Help Your Users Embrace Lotus Connections, and is available to subscribers to The UC View. Here’s the overview: “Convincing end users […]

Week Two of Michael's World Tour 2009

As Sam says in the closing paragraphs of The Lord of the Rings, “Well, I’m back.” And indeed, I’m now back in New Zealand … and have been so for three days. Monday was unpacking and family day, Tuesday was tidying the office day, Wednesday was PhD catch […]

News Updates (March 27, 2009)

SharePoint Collaboration Service Governance Plan … Microsoft released a governance plan document that gives an example of setting SharePoint up for collaboration. It’s aimed at the IT group, not the business. Lead author was Joel Oleson. More Cisco’s Test of Collaboration … Cisco is putting itself under the […]

News Updates (March 24, 2009)

Collaborative Strategy Guild … A group of collaboration industry analysts launched a new service for commenting on collaborative strategy, and maybe doing consulting projects together. More Third Party Offerings for SharePoint … Andrew addresses potential problems in using third-party offerings with SharePoint. “However, my experience over the last […]

News Updates (March 23, 2009)

Requirements for SharePoint … Dux argues that proper requirements gathering (and stating) is essential to the success of SharePoint. “You see, in some instances, SharePoint is deployed without rhyme or reason. How can you measure its’ effectiveness and success if there are no metrics established? These metrics are […]

Change of Plans for US Workshops

I have just cancelled the two US workshops — in Chicago and Atlanta — and at this time, will be spending a couple of extra days in St Louis instead … before heading to London on Friday night. I’m disappointed. I was looking forward to meeting those who […]