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...
 
Jan25

Wishful Thinking: Running Applications in SharePoint Document Libraries

Categories: SharePoint, Technology
I had an interesting twitter conversation today (if you don't know what twitter is, click here) with Andrew Woodward and Dan McPherson about the possibility of storing and running a virtual machine in a document library:   Just imagine, wouldn...
 
Nov18

5 Ways SharePoint Changed the Rules of Web Development

Categories: SharePoint, Technology, Business
“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...
 
Sep2

Google Chrome + SharePoint = Harmony

Categories: Technology, SharePoint
Today, Google released a new browser called Google Chrome. Essentially, it is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.   If you are interested to learn more about Google Ch...
 
Aug2

Why I Love URL Shorteners

Categories: Technology, Project Management
Have you ever received an e-mail like this? When you click on the link, it takes you to a bad web page because not all of the link was sent to the browser. As a project manager, I receive and send tons of links via e-mail and more often than...
 
Jul28

What is SharePoint?

Categories: Technology, SharePoint
Were you at the mall last weekend? Did anybody stopped you and asked: "Hey, can you tell me what SharePoint is?" Really? you haven't experienced this? Get ready, you and I know that it's just a matter of time =)     So, what is Shar...
 
Jun26

Mission Possible: Blackberry + SharePoint

Categories: SharePoint, Technology
I was perusing questions from Linkedin yesterday and Moshe Weiss posted the following question:     It got me thinking since I have a blackberry and I do use it with SharePoint. I replied to his question and here's my response ...   Great que...
 
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