Content for Seamless Teamwork. Some of the screen shots are quite wide … right click them and open them in a different window or tab to see all of the details. One of the choices a team needs to make when using SharePoint is whether to accept “good […]
Some thoughts for Chapter 5 of Seamless Teamwork … do you do things like this now, or have a different view? We hold meetings for different purposes, and some of the meetings that we hold for in-person groups don’t make a lot of sense for virtual teams (and […]
Sarah Heal, a Director at Information Leadership Consulting in Christchurch is the presenter this month at the Christchurch SharePoint User Group meeting. She is talking to the topic, Stories from the SharePoint Frontlines. Sarah is the co-author of Flapping to Flying: Transforming IT into Information Leadership … Flapping […]
When Tony Byrne, Founder of CMSWatch, heard that I had written an independent assessment of the collaboration capabilities of SharePoint, he reached out by email and asked whether I would be willing to review their forthcoming tome on SharePoint. He did warn me, and rightly so, that it […]
Last night (Tuesday March 25) I was the presenter at the March session of the Christchurch SharePoint User Group meeting, presenting on the topic of Evaluating SharePoint for Collaboration. Given that I have blogged all of the previous sessions that I have attended, Mike, one of the attendees, […]
Bill Gates kicked off the SharePoint Conference in Seattle highlighting the growth and success of SharePoint: “Breaking the milestone of 100 million licenses sold and surpassing sales of $1 billion this year, SharePoint is helping customers solve their most pressing information management needs.“ Let’s remember something here: Given […]
Last week Ian posted a thoughtful reaction to my assertion that “SharePoint calendars are essentially useless for team collaboration”. His main points that stuck out to me were: SharePoint calendars are not trying to replace a user’s personal calendar. If you want to have an item from a […]
The benefit of a distilled and objective framework for thinking about team collaboration, is that once you have investigated the facts of how a vendor’s product or service works, you can then analyze where the identified gaps can be filled with add-on products and services. These types of […]
Ian Morrish, a Senior Consultant for SharePoint at Microsoft New Zealand has posted three session abstracts for the upcoming Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Seattle. These three sessions are being presented by customers using SharePoint, and are about their use of SharePoint for collaboration. Ian says that: “SharePoint and […]
Kevin McLaughlin from ChannelWeb and I chatted last week about my SharePoint 7 Pillars paper, and he wrote up our discussion in an article entitled Study Takes Aim at SharePoint’s Shortcomings. As he should have done, Kevin sought comments from others, and Andrew Brust, Chief of New Technology […]
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