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The European SharePoint Community is delighted to release this most anticipated report. SharePoint Under the Spotlight: European Market Report 2013 is a primary resource of key insights and trends impacting those who work with SharePoint. Download Report >>

I have been working A LOT with SharePoint 2013 apps since around November 2011 and AvePoint (where I work) released our first app Task & Calendar Sync to the store in June 2012 and our second called Meetings in April 2013. As the Architect and Product Manager on these apps I've learnt a lot about apps.

You probably know the story. A company wanted a website based on SharePoint. A company looked at standard out-of-box SharePoint. A company decided to change everything. A company payed lots of money to change everything.

I sat through a partner event in Microsoft's Chicago offices yesterday, listening to two large customers of SharePoint and Yammer (Exelon and Aon) outline the factors for success of their deployments, and the lessons learned. It was a great event by Axceler partners Rightpoint (www.Rightpoint.com) and was hosted by one of the most recognized community leaders in the social and SharePoint combined space, Jeff Willinger (@jwillie), with a roadmap discussion by Microsoft business productivity specialist, Jason Bullock. Overall, a well-organized and compelling story on what it takes to move a company's processes and culture toward a more social model.

Meet Oliver Wirkus - MVP - Sci-Fi Fan and Toy Repair Man. Read on to find out more...

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Kevin Ells - Speaker and a Director of marketing at KnowledgeLake that Shares his Breakfast with his Doggies. Read on to find out more…

Metadata is not new to SharePoint. The Managed Metadata have been introduced in SharePoint 2010 and are -of course- an important part of SharePoint 2013. However, Hastags are new to SharePoint. They got introduced in SharePoint 2013 as a part of the new social features. Both are very helpful in collaborative scenarios. Let’s

Alright, I admit it: I borrowed my post title from a great article by Jason Hiner, Editor in Chief of TechRepublic, in which he provides guidance on the habits to avoid if innovation is in any way important to your company or team (and I'm guessing that it is). The title is an attention-getter, and got me thinking: what are the quickest ways to kill innovation within SharePoint?