Metalogix released a migration tool for shifting blogs and wikis to SharePoint. – Moves blog and wiki content to SharePoint; supports Google Blogger, WordPress, Telligent, Confluence, and Wikimedia. – Supports SharePoint 2007 and 2010. – Available immediately. – My analysis: With much better wiki capabilities in SharePoint 2010, […]
About a month ago, I spoke with Sally Whittle (long-distance, weird time of day call) about SharePoint for collaboration. Sally was getting ready to write an article for Microsoft’s NHS Resource Centre. The article is now live … “SharePoint is Microsoft’s world-leading collaboration and workflow system and is […]
This month starts a new research project for me: Evaluating the applicability of SharePoint 2010 across a variety of business scenarios. The intent of the research is to consider how well the technology of SharePoint 2010 aligns with common business scenarios, where it should be used, and where […]
Yesterday I presented to about 30 people at the Christchurch SharePoint User Group on User Adoption Strategies for SharePoint, based mainly on my recent Governance Themes report, along with a sprinkling of material from my upcoming User Adoption Strategies book thrown in for good measure. It was a […]
Today I installed MindManager for SharePoint on my Lenovo W500 running Windows 7 Professional. There were a couple of pre-requisites that weren’t there already, and after prompting me for them and getting me okay, downloaded and installed them with no problem. So far so good. Testing the Task […]
Mindjet released a new product a while back, and I’ve been taking a look this week. It’s called MindManager for SharePoint, and combines the visual mapping power of MindManager with the collaboration capabilities of SharePoint. A couple of specifics up front: – It’s a different product from MindManager […]
On April 27, I’m presenting on user adoption within SharePoint at the next Christchurch SharePoint User Group meeting. “What’s the number one complaint from people charged with the implementation of new collaboration tools? They do the work, and then no one uses them! The very people whom the […]
I talked about the survey results from my recent User Adoption Strategies survey all over Europe earlier this month, and now those same results are available in written form for everyone. To set the context, this is one of about 10 reports that will make up the SharePoint […]
As I said a few days ago, I’m heading back to Europe in June 2010 for a number of engagements. One of those (in less than 89 days I’m told!) is ShareConf, a three-day SharePoint-focused conference in Germany. I’m looking forward to being there, and to meeting a […]
A client asked me about network optimization options for SharePoint today — for speeding things up in bandwidth constrained environments. I knew about Aptimize (as I know some of the guys involved), but hadn’t been to their site for a while. Here’s the way Ed describes what they […]
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