Last week Thomas Vander Wal trashed SharePoint as an enterprise social computing platform in a blog post entitled SharePoint 2007: Gateway Drug to Enterprise Social Tools . He ultimately concluded that SharePoint failed for enterprise 2.0. If an organization has purchased and installed SharePoint without a proper technical due diligence about what it can do and can’t do in the “enterprise Apart from my own interest in his analysis, I have received two specific requests for a reaction. I’m

If you are using SharePoint but are considering Lotus Connections for blogs, communities, social networking, etc., this type of integration could help people understand what the resulting user experience would be like. Good Enough For “SharePoint Shops”? Well-worth your time checking out the demo (just follow the link below). Despite this plug-in, I still believe IBM has made a fundamental and perhaps unrecoverable competitive mistake by not being radically more aggressive regarding SharePoint integration.

Day 1 of the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 is underway. The beta of SharePoint Server 2010 will be available in November, along with the beta of Office 2010. SharePoint Server 2010 will be available in "first half of 2010", so think June 2010. - Key themes for SharePoint 2010 are: (1) better developer story, (2) better Here's what I've seen announced or discussed during the day. And no, I'm not in attendance.

My flight was cancelled from Christchurch, so I was late getting into Wellington for the inaugural SharePoint Conference in New Zealand. When I arrived, Joel was talking about governance in SharePoint. Joel says that the SharePoint implementation needs an executive sponsor with vision and budget. "SharePoint 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.

Many organizations have invested in Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 as strategic infrastructure for content management and collaboration. Atlassian, NewsGator) whose products integrated into SharePoint in ways that alleviated some of the worst functionality (e.g., These dynamics favor a strong social computing comeback by Microsoft as SharePoint 2010 improves on its core collaboration tools but also delivers (based on current OK - this is all draft - nothing is final - everything below is a work-in-progress. I

Our ministry’s IT department over the past few years developed one major collaboration application (consultation tool to develop consolidated Swiss statements for UN), based on MS Sharepoint. Our IT department therefore concludes that MS Sharepoint is the basis on which to build SDC’s collaboration platform. This is why I would like to tap into the km4dev collective experience again: ( Cross posted from Nancy’s Full Circle Blog ) Yesterday I woke up and checked my email.

With Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Interesting - but I remain quite skeptical - especially regarding "MOSS 2007 as your default option for enabling and managing social networks for business use". My conclusion from the excerpt below is that (1) Microsoft does not yet understand many of the fundamental concepts around social networking and the important distinctions between social networks and communities (2) Microsoft is looking at this through the lens of productivity which is very limiting (3) the information below reveals some poor design assumptions

In his post, " Lotusphere 2009: What Might Have Been ", Guy articulates how IBM should have outlined a "surround and integrate" strategy for SharePoint. traditional collaboration and content platforms), then it can then work over time to erode a SharePoint collaboration/content commitment by introducing Quickr and Sametime for instance. The build out of a partner ecosystem that is more viral will distinguish Connections One of the items I was hoping to hear at Lotusphere 2009 was outlined in a recent post by Guy Creese, Research Director of our Collaboration And Content Strategies group here at Burton.

Collaborative Thinking Perceptions on collaboration and social software by Mike Gotta See how were connected Connections February 2009 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

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: - Adds email management to SharePoint, via seamless integration with Outlook. - minimal structure ... a