Jun17

5 Ways IT Orgs Can Transform Themselves to Be Winning SharePoint Rockstars

Categories: Business, SharePoint, Technology
There's a lot of great buzz & excitement about the growth of SharePoint in the enterprise. In spite of the rich business solution ideas produced by the vibrant SharePoint community, functional adoption remains focused on file sharing (see AIIM...
 
Nov17

4 Reasons Why Microsoft Will Shift The Business Productivity Paradigm #ucoms

Categories: Technology, SharePoint, Business, Office365
Today is the official launch of Lync, Microsoft's powerful integrated enterprise communication platform. It's been a longtime coming, I can't wait for it to be widely adopted and becomes mainstream in the enterprise.     Why am I thrilled abo...
 
Nov16

Screencast: 5 Reasons Why You'll Love Office for Mac 2011 #ofm2011

Categories: Technology, Mac, How To
Had a great time last week presenting " 5 Reasons Why You'll Love Office for Mac 2011" for O'Reilly Media. The recently release office productivity tool for Mac has been greatly improved with new collaboration capabilities, multimedi...
 
Jun3

How to Effectively Manage SharePoint Projects @ #SPEX

Categories: Events, Project Management, SharePoint, Technology
It's Day 2 at the SharePoint Exchange conference and I had opportunity to present "How to Effectively Manage SharePoint Projects" to a great crowd.     During the interactive whiteboarding session, attendees learned how to:- Develo...
 
Jun2

Delivering SharePoint Success: Why Collaboration is More Than Just Technology @ #SPEX

Categories: Events, SharePoint, Technology, Business, Screencasts
Greetings from Sacramento, CA! I'm attending The SharePoint Exchange conference and just finished presenting the session "Delivering SharePoint Success: Why Collaboration is More Than Just Technology".   In the presentation, I discuss...
 
May27

5 Finalists for American Idol Gov 2.0 Edition

Categories: Technology, Gov 2.0
We all know that there's mixed feelings on the latest installment of American Idol (not that I watch it but my wife keeps me updated) and I find that the same is true with Gov 2.0. In case you're not sure what Gov 2.0 is, make sure you watch this ...
 
Apr22

5 Tips on Effectively Planning for SharePoint 2010 Migration

Categories: Business, Project Management, SharePoint, Technology
Mixed feelings about SharePoint abound in organizations today. Some say it's great and others don't want anything to do with it. That’s sooo 2007. Rest assured, with proper planning of your SharePoint 2010 migration, you’re well on your way to rev...
 
Apr6

Maximizing SharePoint 2010 on a Mac + iPhone or iPod + iPad

Categories: How To, Screencasts, SharePoint, Technology
Hope you enjoyed the beautiful Easter weekend - I did! And so did these folks =) Last week, Joel Oleson had a great post about organizations upgrading to SharePoint 2010 for Mac Users. It reminded me of Michael Gannotti's video blog post Mac Integ...
 
Jan27

A Shoemaker's Advice on SharePoint Training: It's Not Just About the Tools

Categories: Business, SharePoint, Technology
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...
 
Jan14

How SharePoint Can Deliver Project Transparency

Categories: Project Management, SharePoint, Technology
Transparency in projects is becoming a requirement for many organizations today. SharePoint provides a number of out of the box features and integrations with third party tools to support the transparency required. But even before you go about desig...
 
Jun20

Best Practices in Gathering Requirements for SharePoint Projects

Categories: Project Management, SharePoint, Technology
As most would agree, one of the main factors that can lead to a failed SharePoint implementation is the lack of proper requirements gathering. I've discussed this in a previous blog post and made a case on why upfront investment on proper requiremen...
 
May21

See You This SharePoint Summer

Categories: SharePoint, Technology
Summer is around the corner - what are you up to? I hope you'll still be keeping up and continously learning about SharePoint. Come and join me in these upcoming SharePoint events:   June 22-24, 2009 SharePoint Technology ConferenceCambridge, MA...
 
May5

Free Webcast: Leveraging SharePoint for ARRA/Stimulus Transparency

Categories: SharePoint, Project Management, Technology
I'd like to invite you to join me on May 12, 2009, Tuesday at 10am (PT) for a free webcast about "Leveraging SharePoint for ARRA Transparency". On Friday, Feburary 17, 2009, the US House of Representatives and Senate approved the confer...
 
Apr22

Harnessing the Power of Community 2.0

Categories: Technology, SharePoint
In late 2008, Michael Lotter had a vision to promote SharePoint by organizing a free, community-driven, not for profit, one day conference that will showcase leading SharePoint thought leaders to voluntarily speak and share their expertise to bene...
 
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