Microsoft is hosting the SharePoint Conference 2009 in Las Vegas in a few weeks … and I’m not going. The details about the next edition of SharePoint will finally be made public … and given my assessment of SharePoint 2007 for collaboration, I’m keenly interested to see what’s […]
I can’t make it to Washington DC this month, but if I could, I’d be doing so to attend the upcoming SharePoint Success Mentoring Workshop run by Dux Sy, Paul Culmsee, Ruven Gotz, and Andrew Woodward. Here’s the scoop: “Have you implemented SharePoint? If you have, how did […]
“By itself, SharePoint can neither create nor destroy organizational chaos, but does an excellent job of reflecting the chaos in the organization at the time of deployment.” Paul is from Seven Sigma Business Solutions in Perth, Australia. An early client of Paul’s asked “What’s the difference between SharePoint […]
The first day of the NZ SharePoint Conference 2009 has come and gone. In two hours the second day starts. Here’s my reflections on day one: For a community-driven event, it’s fantastic. The three organizers — Chan, Mark and Debbie — volunteered to make it happen, and they […]
Debbie Ireland (from EnvisionIT) and Cameron Dwyer (from Scinaptic) talked about using SharePoint for document management, along with two third-party products. Signs of maturity with SharePoint: – minimal structure … a bit of dabbling, corporate documents; some metadata, few or no content types, published content – semi-structured … […]
Steve Smith, director (and SharePoint MVP) from Combined Knowledge in the UK talked about his new end user adoption solution and material. His new “end user adoption framework” brings together training and education material. He key quote: “the challenge with SharePoint is not about upskilling devs and admins […]
Brendon Ford from Provoke Solutions in Wellington is now talking at the SharePoint Conference 2009 in New Zealand. BPOS is a subset of Microsoft Online Services (cloud-based services). BPOS stands for “business productivity online suite” … Exchange, SharePoint, OCS and Live Meeting. Why BPOS? – if your server […]
My flight was cancelled from Christchurch, so I was late getting into Wellington for the inaugural SharePoint Conference in New Zealand. The conference is being held at The Duxton Hotel, and there’s 200-300 people here. There’s about 30 people standing up at the back of the room. This […]
In addition to writing SharePoint Roadmap for Collaboration over the past month, I had to find a printer who could get it printed in time for the New Zealand SharePoint Conference 2009 on July 2-3. After calling a few places, and actually even tracking down a previous client […]
One of the delights of writing a book is choosing the perfect person to write the foreword for it. I had some initial ideas when I started SharePoint Roadmap for Collaboration, and one of those was Peter O’Kelly (see his blog Reality Check). I first met Peter when […]
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