This are my notes of the session from Matt Berg at the European SharePoint conference 2011 in Berlin.

• There is a huge shift in the industry
  • 4 million millenniums are entering the industry. They always had the internet
• What makes SharePoint different?
  • it is integrated with office apps and other
  • it’s flexible
  • interoperability, you can build plugins
  • connected
  • ubiquitous
  • understood
• The SharePoint journey
  • Initial deployment: deploy collaboration sites, connect teams and information
  • Broad adoption: deliver advanced workloads, reduce the cost of multiple systems
  • Business solutions: provide insights that improves decisions
• How some users see SharePoint?
  • it’s the intranet
  • it’s the server
  • The thing my boss makes me use
  • The new home drive
  • The meeting site thing
  • The work google/bing thing
• Tip: get people using mysites! Fill in your name and you projects you’re working on or you worked on in the past.
• Tip: get a corporate sponsor, someone outside from IT. Someone popular.
• Tip: put real people on your homepage, people from your company
• Best practices to lead to success
  • set goals
    • cross organization collaboration
    • keep intranet content fresh
    • communication and training plan
  • develop a plan
    • enhance your existing plan
    • show value
  • get an executive sponsor
  • train, communicate, incentivize
• Communication plan
  • Town hall meetings
  • Break room posters
  • SharePoint lunch
  • Create “champions groups”
  • Organize a SharePoint party
• visit www.iusesharepoint.com
  • contains a SharePoint adaption kit