In the closing keynote of Share2011, Ruven Gotz from Navantis in Canada is presenting on requirements, roadmaps, wireframes, and workflow. Key ideas: – We don’t want cowboy projects – “I’ll start coding, you go and see what they want.” – Requirements – do we need to get them? […]
In the penultimate session of Share 2011, Sarah Haase is presenting her second session of the conference – about ROI for SharePoint. Key topics: – (self-evident truth 1) Your SharePoint solution isn’t complete until you’ve measured its effectiveness. – (self-evident truth 2) ROI is meaningless without context. – […]
Donna French from the Disability Services Commission is talking about the power of having someone who can translate between what the users want and what IT needs to deliver. Key points: – When users say “Why did you give me this?,” IT would say, “But it’s what you […]
Michelle Goodwin is talking about a recent HR program with AGL. Two essential points – site design, and collaboration. Key ideas: – Michelle talked at Share 2010, on the earlier AGL work. See Share2010 Session: Michelle Goodwin from AGL Energy on “Waddya Mean I Have to Move All […]
Wendy White is presenting on an intranet upgrade project at the Department of Child Protection. Key ideas: – The department has just under 3000 employees. The department values learning and information sharing. It’s very important to the department, and it’s very important to get it right. – The […]
Veronique Palmer from Lets Collaborate is talking about effective end user training for SharePoint. Key points: – The standard of training for SharePoint is really dodgy – all around the world. But it’s not just training for SharePoint – training in general is really bad. – Adult education […]
Ramin is the Enterprise Solutions manager at eBay USA. He’s talking about the social networking journey at eBay. He is going to show what eBay has been doing with enterprise social networking. Key ideas: – why enterprise social networking? People have email, Facebook, and other tools available. In […]
Mindjet released Mindjet Connect SP, for working with tasks and documents in SharePoint from a MindManager map. Key ideas: – Embedding maps in SharePoint sites for finding information, documents, and locations quickly. Maps can be created within the SharePoint site. – Create dashboards of upcoming tasks, and use […]
Sarah Haase is the Collaboration Manager at Best Buy in the US. She is talking about success with SharePoint. Key points: – Sarah outlined a “perfect view” of SharePoint in any organization. No one at the conference was there yet. – A better and more realistic view – […]
The Eventful Group is expanding the footprint of its Share Conference – the SharePoint Conference for Business Users, with new conferences in South Africa (February) and Atlanta (April) in 2012. I won’t make the South Africa conference in 2012, but I’m working toward being at Share 2012 in […]
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