Sep
1
SharePoint On Line // BPOS – Some Hands On Experience
BPOS is an insanely feature rich platform. Exchange, SharePoint (MOSS Standard!), presence, instant live meetings – it’s a lot of functionality that I would sorely, sorely miss if I had to live without it. My business would be severely impacted without it. Could I find replacement functionality? Probably, but I think I would have to cobble it together from a variety of other vendors, complicating my life. BPOS has so far proven itself to be stable and reliable. For the right kind of customer (like my company), BPOS is worth strong consideration.
May
26
Don’t Make Users Think about your SharePoint Site Navigation
Organic growth is great and is something that you should allow within your SharePoint environment. However, providing some guardrails around what site administrators can or should do with regards to navigation will help to ensure that everyone has an enjoyable SharePoint navigation experience.
Dec
22
What is Social Bookmarking and why should I care?
At the bottom of each article at EndUserSharePoint.com, there are some funky little icons. What are they for? Why would a post be called ‘delicious’ worthy? What’s all this talk about ‘digg’-ing a post? How do people ‘StumbleUpon’ my site? What in the world am I talking about?
Check out this 3 minute screencast from CommonCraft. [...]
Oct
28
Site Planning Worksheets: Over 800 Downloaded
Last week’s newsletter contained a download for a set of site planning worksheets. There were over 800 downloads! With that kind of response, I’m planning on an online workshop to walk people through the worksheet and get them setup with their site architecture. Leave me a quick note in the comments if that type of [...]
Aug
28
EndUserSharePoint.com: SharePoint is so easy anyone can do it… not.
This plea for help came in earlier this morning. I hear this about once a week, so I thought I’d see how other people are selling up the food chain when it comes to telling management “We can’t do it alone!”
Please point me to the best, most persuasive article or case statement for bringing in [...]
Apr
8
EndUserSharePoint.com: RSS Subscription vs Email Subscription
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There seems to be confusion about how to receive the Weekly Newsletter that contains SharePoint 101: Tricks and Traps. A lot of people have inadvertently signed up for RSS subscription instead of the Weekly Newsletter. I was wondering why my feed numbers had gone exponential. Sorry for the confusion.
The RSS feed only gives out [...]
Mar
23
EndUserSharePoint.com: SharePoint 101 – Tricks and Traps E-book
As you might have guessed, after last week’s announcement that I was giving away my new book to anyone who asks, I was inundated with subscriptions for the weekly email newsletter. I will be sending out the first installment of SharePoint 101 – Tricks and Traps on Wednesday morning. Signup for the newsletter and check [...]