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This month's webinar is a refresher of Hilton Giesenow's exceptional session 'REST Assured - Best Practices with the SharePoint 2013 Data Services' which was voted as one of the top 10 sessions from ESPC 2013.

Seb Matthews, Evangelist, Speaker and ABBA Fan!! Read on to find out more…

Acclaimed speaker and SharePoint MVP, Geoff Evelyn has kindly given us an early exclusive of his forthcoming book "Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Planning for Adoption and Governance" with an unedited excerpt from Chapter 2: "Defining the SharePoint Solution Scope".

One of the great things about SharePoint is the ability to customize the design of our pages. This includes the ability to add video and audio to our SharePoint pages. For SharePoint 2013, Microsoft has provided a number of options for inserting video and audio, including inserting media directly from your local computer, from a SharePoint Asset Library, and pasting an embedded stream. In this article, we'll walk through the different methods for adding video and audio to your SharePoint page, as well as how to share the media which you've inserted.

We have heard this question asked more times than we can count. As a matter of fact, many of us have been the ones to ask this question in the past as well.

In the AIIM, SharePoint Security – A Survey on Compliance with Recommendations for Improvement, author David Jones asked if respondents had any general comments to make about their compliance and information security issues. They had a lot to say. We’ve compiled and provided some commentary on eight responses that caught our attention:

Semalessly embedded within SharePoint, Hyper.Net automatically converts SharePoint-managed policies, procedures, manuals, and other documentation into optimized, multi-format eManuals and deploys them to every application, server, PC and mobile device in your organization.

Geoff Evelyn is a speaker and critically acclaimed autor of several SharePoint books but do you know the real Geoff? Read on to find out more…

In the previous articles we saw that process innovation declined with the wise definition of crowd sourcing and collective intelligence is a very important lesson learnt from Social Network even more considering the new conversation patterns between user and systems enforced by context aware application, but what we can learn from implementation of such systems, which are the insights we can capture? Is there anything that can consider in our daily business? Can we run another trip over some common social networks features and consider the correspondents in our daily business? Let's continue the journey with our new friend FourSquare using it as our playground to play and explore its technical features and we'll see whether we can get inspired.

From Mobile to Crowd-Sourcing through Gamification and Context Aware Application: what IT can and should reuse of social networks experiences