I wrote a few days ago that Martin White has a new book out, called The Intranet Management Handbook. For me, this is great timing due to a couple of client projects I’m working on at the moment, and thus have been deeply reading Martin’s book. The book […]
Mark Gilbert from Gartner spoke at the Gartner BI summit in Sydney recently. He said that firms shouldn’t deploy collaboration software “out of the box” – I disagree, but I disagree because I’m being pedantic, although I think it is important to be so given this is a […]
Lee Reed helps clients with SharePoint in the United States. He and I met through EndUserSharePoint, and have had some neat conversations by phone since then. We have many similar interests, around effective governance, user adoption, and more. So I send my congrats to Lee on starting with […]
A contact asked me this question a few days ago: “I’ve seen many implementations where people do not enable MySites. I think this is because they perceive them as being some sort of risk, however they are sacrificing the unique MySite capabilities in doing so. What we’ve done […]
During a drive to Camberley one late night in October 2010, after Seb Matthews retrieved me from LHR (after I’d waited for 2 hours to pass through border control – which, incidentally was longer than it took to fly from Denmark), he told me about the work they […]
Photo Credit: Seb Matthews at AdeoPoint Details for my trip to Europe and the United States have come together. There are two public events, one private workshop, and a day-and-a-half available for other consulting. The three confirmed events are: – Tuesday March 29, User Adoption Masterclass, with AdeoPoint […]
UK Law firm Winckworth Sherwood has recently implemented a SharePoint-based document management system. The tool was MacroView DMF, and the partner was ClearPeople. The new product replaced a bespoke document management system that was showing its age … and impacting on fee-earner productivity. “The new SharePoint DMS stores, […]
For those of you in Australia and New Zealand, there are two SharePoint conferences in the first half of March 2011: – in Australia, on March 8-9. – in New Zealand, on March 16-17. I can’t attend either this year due to other commitments, but I have very […]
Little did I know in mid-December that I would be invited to present a keynote and workshop at the upcoming Intranets 2011 conference in Sydney, in May 2011. James sounded me out on the idea in late December when he was here in New Zealand, and now it’s […]
I spent an hour yesterday afternoon reviewing Jane McConnell’s latest publication – the Global Intranet Trends 2011 report. This is the fifth year Jane has surveyed intranet managers on the state of intranets, and thus Jane has a wealth of real world data to aggregate and share. This […]
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