After lunch at the New Zealand SharePoint Conference, Kristi from Wintec is talking about the use of SharePoint at Wintec. Some notes: – Gave content creators full permission / controls over their sites. The IT group ran some workshops. – Put content, workflow forms, and various other business […]
Day one of the SharePoint Conference in Auckland is kicking off, with a two-hour Microsoft keynote. Maria Martinez Torres, NZ Business Productivity Group Lead Connect – Reimagine – Transform – opening comments from Microsoft New Zealand. – what is top of mind for business leaders? (a) enhancing the […]
In the third to final session time of the Australian conference (and the second to last for me, as I have a flight to catch), Mark Allison from Webtrends is talking about employee engagement and user adoption. Some notes: – Webtrends have been in business for 20 years. […]
In the session before lunch, Elaine and Chris are talking about the integration between Yammer and SharePoint. It’s a Developers session rather than a business session though. Some notes: – integration between Office 365 and Yammer today, is an across the top link to Yammer. There is also […]
Lou is talking about the use of SharePoint at Lakewood High School, and how students are deeply involved. Some notes: – Lakewood has been using SharePoint since 2001. SharePoint 2010 was the eye-opening experience; “look at what we can do with this.” – CATNIP – Center for Advanced […]
The second day of the Australian SharePoint Conference 2014 is kicking off. John White (as he said, “a Canadian from Canadia”) is talking about Power BI (Business Intelligence). Some notes: – classic architecture – from source data, extract / transform / load, into a storage alternative, and then […]
Darrell Webster is talking about Office 365, user adoption, and WIIFM. Darrell is an enthusiast for Office 365 from a user perspective, works at ShareThePoint in New Zealand, and blogs at webster.net.nz. Key ideas: – Darrell saw a great need for training people how to use the tools. […]
Rebecca from Melbourne Water talked about lessons from an intranet rebuild at her organisation. Key ideas: – Engagement is important because it’s their intranet. – Go out and talk to people about their needs and requirements. Business people often won’t know; so need to do a lot more […]
Lou from the United States (Lakewood High School) is presenting on making sure your SharePoint solutions don’t go to waste. The aim is to improve user adoption of SharePoint solutions. I missed the beginning of the session – which was about creating a shared vision. The points I […]
The SharePoint Conference is kicking off in Australia today. Mark Rhodes, Introducing Guy for the First Part of the Conference – first conference in 2010; done 6 conferences since then. – … SharePoint 2010 was in beta in 2010. Everyone on SharePoint 2007. – … go and see […]
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