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SharePoint empowerment includes instilling proper discipline. Being able to define a process and use SharePoint to support it allows users to reap the technology's promise of streamlining work, increasing productivity and improving business efficien...

I had the great opportunity to speak with Cornelius Fichtner of PMPodcast last week and talked to him about the mentoring workshop I facilitate.     We discussed the importance of having SharePoint projects get started the right way and I sha...

That's not a typo on the title. Yes, this post is about Santa Claus using SharePoint.     Photo from Spirit Telecom   It all started this morning when I came across Corasworks' press release about how Santa is improving his business operatio...

"How do you like your SharePoint? Combo 1? Team site template with Wikis, Surveys and FBA on the side? Would you like to super size it?”   Taking a fast food ordering approach when implementing SharePoint is not effective in meeting business ...

In my last article, I discussed the first two reasons why executive SharePoint ignorance is not bliss, here are the remaining three:   3. Sooner or later, Organizational SharePoint Readiness has to be Assessed Servers: check. Licenses: check. Sha...

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) has been a buzzword floating in the enterprise. Yet its promise of integrating proven methods and tools to capture, manage and deliver relevant information to an organization has yet to be realized.   Microsoft ...

In my post "Mr. Miyagi is Not a Direct Descendant of Superman" I mentioned that along with my colleague Mike Taylor, we presented: "SharePoint Worst Practices: Five Common Mistakes to Avoid" at the recently concluded SharePoint T...

While Tweeting yesterday, I mentioned that the key to successful SharePoint implementation is properly developing requirements. Even if most people know that this is important, in my experience, only a handful of folks truly understand what it takes...

“Changing the look and feel of an out of the box SharePoint site is just like customizing a regular website, right?” insisted a self-appointed web development guru that I had the pleasure of interacting with in a recent SharePoint implementation pro...

Have you all seen Google Insights for Search? This is such an awesome tool! I was like a kid in a candy store when I started using it. Essentially, Google Insights allows you to compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, and...

Over the weekend, I had an interesting meeting with my colleagues at Innovative-e discussing our business growth strategies. Not that I didn't know this, it dawned on me that there REALLY is a lot of SharePoint work out there. HOWEVER, I can tell yo...

I know, I know, it has been more than three weeks since my last blog posting. Anyway, no excuses on my end, kindly forgive my brief hiatus. Rest assured, I'm back with regular SharePoint and Project Management blog postings.   In a power seminar I...