In my book, User Adoption Strategies, I show a four stage approach to gaining adoption of new approaches and new ways of working. Stage 1 is “Winning Attention,” with the intent being to show why a target group should be interested. There are various strategies that can be […]
Dux Sy has released a series of mentoring workshops on being effective with SharePoint. The first two are online, the third is delivered in-person: “Executive Briefing: Empowering Your Organization with SharePoint This interactive 90-minute session is valuable for decision makers to understand how to reap the business value […]
Earlier this year, Workshare introduced Workshare Point, a connector for linking email messages and documents in Outlook with Microsoft SharePoint, and for providing easier ways for people to access and work with SharePoint from Microsoft Office applications. Key features are: – Outlook email messages and attachments can be […]
Fujitsu released results from a recent survey of IT managers in the UK (and maybe Ireland) on collaboration and SharePoint: “The research – commissioned by Fujitsu – shows that of all collaboration technologies, SharePoint is by far the most common. 92% of enterprise organisations using collaboration software use […]
Natalie is the Information Management Coordinator at Queensland University of Technology. She’s talking about collaboration and SharePoint at the University. Key points: – Until recently, SharePoint was not managed. It was introduced about 8 years ago, in a single department (under someone’s desk). Got to 9 different SharePoint […]
At Intranets2011, Hugh from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia is talking about evolving an intranet team as an intranet evolves with SharePoint. Key points: – Mid-2008 – 250 authors requesting publication of simple changes. 50-60 change requests per day. Required 6 people full time to keep the Intranet […]
Harmon.ie shared the results of its recent challenge about making SharePoint easier to use for business users, and the impact of this on adoption and uptake: “Business users can complete Microsoft SharePoint document sharing and other collaboration tasks six times faster when accessing SharePoint directly from Microsoft Outlook […]
Mark, the Intranet Manager at BT in the United Kingdom, says that it’s how you use SharePoint 2010 that decides the value it brings: “My post on ‘Measuring the value SharePoint 2010 can bring to your organisation’ caused a few comments, for example, Stephen Arnold posted ‘SharePoint: The […]
Joe Shepley, the VP and Practice Leader at Doculabs asks whether firms should be using SharePoint 2010 as their collaboration platform at all: “I’m in the middle of a series on SharePoint collaboration. In the first two posts, I focused on why SharePoint collaboration fails and how you […]
MIT Technology Review has been looking at collaboration approaches and tools during March, and has finally devoted an article to SharePoint. “The collaboration tools discussed this month in Business Impact all have one thing in common. One way or another, they will run up against the market leader: […]
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