Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2014 – Some Highlights
The highlights from the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2014 in Las Vegas, including Office Graph, SharePoint 2013 SP1, and OneDrive for Business.
Michael Sampson
Social Connections VI – June 16-17 in Prague
Last June I spoke at Social Connections V in Zurich. The Social Connections conference team has just announced the dates and location for Social Connections VI: Prague on June 16-17. Some more information: “It will be our first ever two-day event, starting at 12pm on Monday 16th June […]
Case Study: Lync at Beca New Zealand
ComputerWorld New Zealand has a case study on the benefits Microsoft Lync has brought to Beca New Zealand, an engineering consultancy. Aside from cost savings, those benefits include: – the ability to iterate faster and be more agile. In terms of agility, you can work from anywhere there’s […]
Where Did February Disappear?
Friday next week is the last day of February. Where have those weeks gone? Here’s what I have been up to: – a couple of days consulting with a client in Virginia, focused on governance and adoption for its SharePoint 2013-based collaboration platform. The client is about to […]
Thoughts on IBM Connections Mail (“Mail Next”)
(thanks to @joebaxter for the photo) At IBM Connect 2014 today, IBM announced “Mail Next,” to be branded under the IBM Connections family. It was positioned as a re-think of email. Mail Next was introduced in the Opening General Session, and then there was a very well attended […]
An Argument for Training
Greg Jones, the head of IS and KM at Landcare Research, recently made the case for training (in ComputerWorld NZ): “The latest in ICT systems can be of no use when your staff don’t know how to use them effectively. With the right investment in training staff, even […]
Insights on Connections (January 2014)
Insights on Connections provides updates, socializes new ideas, and shares the latest thinking and approaches for being effective with IBM Connections. See case study on Evonik Industries, extending IBM Connections with third-party products, and governance.
Take a Day Per Month to Think Long Term
Roman Stanek, CEO of GoodData, recommends that CEOs should take one day a month to think about the long term: ‘I believe (and I don’t do enough of it) that a CEO should spend at least a day, if not two days, a month outside of the office […]
Rehmann Financial: an Example of a Bulk Loading Party
In User Adoption Strategies 2nd Ed. (2012) I profile numerous strategies that organizations are embracing to encourage user adoption of new ways of working – including the Bulk Loading Party strategy. In my reading this morning, I came across a story of how Rehmann Financial approached the implementation […]
Viewing Activities in IBM Connections as a Kanban Board
ISW introduces Kudos Boards, for visualizing Activities in IBM Connections using a Kanban board style visual layout.
Michael Sampson 
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