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

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

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. Governance, according to The Burton Group, is the combination of people, technology, processes and policies to define a service, resolve ambiguity. 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.

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.

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., The association that social computing is tightly interwoven with collaboration strategies has influenced some decision-makers that technology solutions are therefore best OK - this is all draft - nothing is final - everything below is a work-in-progress. I

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 - (there

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: Yesterday I woke up and checked my email. It was clear that the email lull of the holidays was over.

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My March post on SharePoint Tom Vander Wall Nails My Sharepoint Experience continues to get hits in a way few of my hundreds of blog posts ever have. In the past week three separate conversations have come up about the challenges of using SharePoint as an organizational intranet or portal in international NGOs. (I was a beneficiary of free or low cost SharePoint software Hmmm… Something is a ‘cooking. I presume this applies to US non profits as well, but oddly, I have heard of far fewer use cases.)