AvePoint recently released the results of a survey about managing and governing SharePoint. Survey respondents were based in Europe. With 20% of respondents representing SharePoint deployments of more than 5,000 end users, it is vital that businesses develop a strong set of governance procedures to simplify this management process. MORE >>

I leave for Europe next Friday. am presenting the SharePoint Roadmap Public Masterclass in three countries: - Norway, in Bergen, with EDB Consulting Group , on October 6. for two weeks of presenting workshops, speaking at conferences, and hosting masterclasses. Sweden, in Stockholm, with Acando , on October 7. Are you coming? MORE >>

This was not only the case outside Europe, but also for most Europeans. So why do we believe that, just because Europeans invented and exported this structure 3-400 years ago – arms in hand, and at the expense of almost all other governing structures around the globe – it cannot change once again? Where does this take me? MORE >>

The is the second part of a speech transcript from David Bollier : * The Commons as a New/Old Paradigm for Governance, Economics and Policy. Remarks by David Bollier, Commons Strategies Group for the American Academy in Berlin on December 4, 2012. It accomplishes useful things outside of the marketplace and government. MORE >>

Excerpted from from the coordinators of the Forum , Arnaud Blin and Gustavo Marin : “ Why have we opened this Forum for a new World Governance? Today, it is commonplace to say there is a crisis in world governance. First, however, we need to ask: What exactly is world governance? The three causes of the crisis. MORE >>