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Monday, March 23, 2009
For a number of years I have cringed every time one of my clients tells me that have or are planning to deploy Microsoft SharePoint as a collaborative platform. SharePoint is many things, but it misses the critical element of social media which is networked connection between people and ideas, easy discoverability, makes visible and allows people to act on weak ties, and support for other network-like interactions rather than closed group performance.
They say it is their “social media” deployment. I
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Sunday, March 15, 2009
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
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
I am at a Microsoft event in Christchurch (New Zealand), co-presented by Intergen New Zealand . The event is focused on how to use various Microsoft technologies for emergency response. You can learn more about the initiative at Microsoft Citizen Safety Architecture, at www.microsoft.com/csa . The architecture describes how to use various Microsoft technologies to support agencies and organizations focused on citizen safety. There's about 50 people here for the 2 hour session.
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
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". This situation can influence decision-making - people may prefer to evolve with Microsoft over the next couple of years as they figure this space out - especially for internal deployments.
Collaborative Thinking
Perceptions on collaboration and social software by Mike Gotta
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Monday, October 19, 2009
Microsoft design point is to co-mingle structured collaboration tools alongside social computing tools - it's unrealistic to think of social computing disconnected from collaborations strategies
Microsoft also thinks of the IT Pro ... Microsoft believes SharePoint scales to meet as narrow or broad a view an organization has on social computing, you can use it in a very classic Notes from Christian Finn, Director, Social Computing
13 sessions in "social track"
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Monday, October 19, 2009
Day 1 of the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 is underway. From Microsoft's press release :
- 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.
- Here's what I've seen announced or discussed during the day. And no, I'm not in attendance.
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009
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.
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
Many organizations have invested in Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 as strategic infrastructure for content management and collaboration.
IBM, Jive) delivered social platforms that were far superior to what was delivered out-of-the-box by Microsoft. Microsoft partners (e.g., OK - this is all draft - nothing is final - everything below is a work-in-progress. I
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
For the past 7 months I've been focused on a second major deliverable related to the business side of SharePoint for collaboration. The first was Seamless Teamwork , my book published by Microsoft Press about how business teams can use SharePoint for collaboration.
it's a second book called SharePoint Roadmap for Collaboration . The second major deliverable is almost ready to go to the printers ... Here's the overview:
" The majority of the IT people I work with are at a loss about what to do after installing SharePoint on some new fancy server.
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010
The Microsoft SharePoint team have made some changes in the way people work with lists of documents, tasks, announcements, etc. (called called "List Views") in SharePoint 2010. There are two parts of a blog series about the changes at the SharePoint team blog:
- Part 1, Introduction to the new List View
- Part 2, Using the New SharePoint Lists
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