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
- set goals
- 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