When people ask me for input on their collaboration and social software choices, I always ask if they have purchased / read / analysed the report from The Real Story Group on this topic. It’s the kind of report every organization should be purchasing. Currently the Real Story […]
After a great lunch at the New Zealand SharePoint Conference, Benjamin is talking about using a team site effectively for collaboration. Benjamin works at ShareGate. Some notes: – What is SharePoint? Many people don’t know (or they’ve been given licenses). It’s a platform where you build you own […]
Day two of the New Zealand SharePoint Conference is starting. The first session for me today is a case study from AUT University. Some notes: – Alan is a Senior Consultant at Provoke. Shelley is the Technology & Resources Manager at the Faculty of Business and Law at […]
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. […]
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